Programming Microsoft ADO.NET 2.0 Core Reference
by David Sceppa
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Author: David SceppaEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-08-30
ISBN: 073562206X
Number of pages: 864
Publisher: Microsoft Press
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Book Review: Breath of fresh air
Summary: 5 Stars
I normally buy Wrox books and up until .NET I was very happy with them, but their .NET books (ASP.NET 2.0 and VB.NET particularly) were poorly organized with massive numbers of errors in them. I wanted an ADO.NET book but the customer reviews of the Wrox title were poor so I kept looking and found this book that has much better reviews. I'd not bought a Microsoft Press book recently because I didn't like the last one I tried so this was an act of faith for me.
I have to say, thought, that this book is an order of magnitude better than the recent Wrox books I have bought. I don't know if the single author approach simply results in a better book or if the particular author (David Sceppa) can take the credit. Either way, I think Wrox needs to stop publishing books with multiple authors.
The problem with ADO.NET is that everything is intermingled and it's hard to discuss, say, DataSets without mentioning DataTables or DataAdapters. David (or someone) say down and very carefully figured out the sequence to explain stuff with the minimum of forward referencing. This means there are only a few unresolved references I have to hold in my brain at a time for which I am very grateful. On the down-side, this means there is some repetition as he discusses the same class relationship from different perspectives in different chapters. At first I found this annoying until I realized that this was actually making my life as the reader much easier.
I have yet to find a single error and the sample code in particalar seems to be error free which is in stark contrast to the Wrox .NET books. The samples themselves are compact and clean and writen in both VB and C# which is a handy way for a VB programmer like me to learn a little C# on the cheap. I certainly never found myself thinking 'The purpose of this sample is to add 10 unncecessary pages to this book' unlike other books *cough*XML Bible*cough*.
I'm only about one third of the way through right now but I am very impressed.
I really hope someone from Wrox reads this because I'd like the old Wrox back that published great technical books.
Summary of Programming Microsoft ADO.NET 2.0 Core Reference
Build your expertise as you move beyond the basics?and delve into the essential topics of programming with ADO.NET 2.0. This comprehensive reference offers expert guidance, hands-on instruction, and code samples in Microsoft Visual C# and Visual Basic to help advance your mastery of developing database applications for Microsoft Windows and the Web.
Discover how to:
- Work with design-time data access features in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
- Use Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 data providers to connect to databases
- Build connection strings and enable connection pooling
- Execute queries, including parameterized and asynchronous queries, and retrieve their results
- Create DataSet objects to work with offline data and explore common usage scenarios
- Use the new Common Language Runtime features and XML data type in Microsoft SQL Server 2005
- Generate logic and use stored procedures for simple to advanced updating scenarios
- Design Web applications with new data access features in ASP.NET 2.0?including code-free data-binding capabilities
PLUS?Get Visual Basic and C# code samples, and a Microsoft .NET Data Provider on the Web
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