ADO.NET: From Novice to Pro, Visual Basic .NET Edition [Paperback]

Peter Wright (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 4, 2002 | ISBN-10: 1590590600 | ISBN-13: 978-1590590607 | Edition: 1

Designed to get programmers up to professional levels as fast as possible, ADO.NET: From Novice to Pro is geared toward developers who have little or no .NET or ADO.NET experience, as well as programmers who are not yet comfortable with database programming. Best-selling author Peter Wright painlessly moves readers from simple database access to the sophisticated manipulation of XML documents.

The book begins by showing you the basic architecture of ADO.NET, and then provides you with the tools you'll need to work with data providers and the Connection, Command, and DataSet objects. Wright then drills down into the topics that are essential for you as a professional developer to understand, including transactions, concurrency, typed DataSets, and the use of XML with ADO.NET.

Through numerous hands-on examples and working code that is adaptable to individual projects, you'll learn how to create fast and powerful ADO.NET enterprise applications. By the end of this book, you'll be able to work at a professional level utilizing Microsoft's most powerful data-access technology.

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About the Author

Peter Wright has been programming with, and writing about, Microsoft development tools since 1992. He is the author of about a dozen books, including the international best selling series, Beginning Visual Basic, and has written numerous articles for the both the print and online press worldwide. Born in England, Peter now lives in Florida along with his wife, 2 kids, and 2 fluffy attack spaniels called Mac and Tosh.

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (September 4, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590590600
• ISBN-13: 978-1590590607
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.2 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,134,100 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars gem of a reference, April 6, 2006

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dewRiver "db app developer" (long island, ny usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ADO.NET: From Novice to Pro, Visual Basic .NET Edition (Paperback)

This book does not have everything for everybody, ( but no book ever does anyhow ).

But what subjects and topics this book has, - the nuances of how to use them, caveats to watch out for, limitations of applications, - I feel is worth the price of the book.

I have previously learned a lot from the author from his former books (early VB 5 !!). He has a great writing / teaching style. That is certainly carried on to this work.

His explanations on the core concepts of ado.net data binding, record concurrency and navigation, transactions with data adapters, how DataAdapter.Update works, different techniques in finding and deleting DataRows, are just a few of what I consider golden nuggets of information. ( I have not even finished his section on web-based apps / xml. )

I have several other books on ado.net on my reference library, but I find myself reaching for this book repeatedly for study when I find myself in a bind in my development work.

Again, you perhaps might find yourself needing additional books to reference., but this book by Peter Wright is a gem in my library. (The pages are already battered I'm buying a new copy.)

As the other reviewer, I'm surprised there are not much earlier reviews on this book.

I feel I owe Peter Wright this review because I've learned a lot from him. I guess I have to apologize for not taking the time to submit this review earlier.

Keep up the good work, Wright.

5.0 out of 5 stars This is THE book, March 2, 2010

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Robert Molloy "Bob" (Delran, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ADO.NET: From Novice to Pro, Visual Basic .NET Edition (Paperback)

If you're coming from DAO or ADO, this is the book. Although it's getting a little long in the tooth, I worked all the sample code with VS 2008. The only glitch I found was that the author seems to assume that you have VSTS. That took a little workaround to create the databases, but no big deal. The book is laid out well and follows a natural progression through the topics. Each sample is concise and builds on the previous ones. Finally, finally I have some sense of how to work with ADO.NET.

The book's samples are all for SQL Server databases. Works just fine with OleDb (MS Access) databases.

4.0 out of 5 stars Good book, but not what you need if you need real world example, July 6, 2005

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irnbru - See all my reviews

This review is from: ADO.NET: From Novice to Pro, Visual Basic .NET Edition (Paperback)

I am surprised no one reviewed it yet ! I got that book cheap in Scotland (wee bit out of date now) but the book is very good cos easy to follow and the author takes the time to explain. But for the most important problems like concurrency and transaction he went too fast, he explained too long easy notions but not enough the complex ones too bad, the book would have 5 stars otherwise.

That book helps you to leanr basics of ADO.NET but it is not a professianal book!

IRNBRU