Customer Reviews

Applied ADO.NET: Building Data-Driven Solutions

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4 star:		(3)
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2 star:		(4)
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This is not a good first book on ADO.NET but could be useful for someone wanting to learn some advanced techniques and willing to tolerate far too many typos. On the positive side, the typos are of the obvious kind and easy to spot. Unfortunately, they show that very little attention was placed on proof-reading. Also, I found that new concepts were introduced with little of no explanation.

This critique isn't so much about Mssrs. Chand and Talbot as it is about Apress. The quality control used in the publication of this book was atrocious. The book was obviously rushed to print (come on guys, you're new to a market with some tough competition, so use your spell checkers and hire professional proof-readers with experience in technical publications!) The writing style is too conversational and colloquial, reading more like an undergraduate end-of-semester project report than a professional reference text. Properly presented, the approximately 850 pages of information could be reduced to about 600.

That said, there is a lot of good information here. The authors have tackled some tough subjects (the section on creating custom data providers was especially helpful, but their treatment of the currency manager could have been more in-depth). My advise, however, is to wait for the second edition.

Don't even try to buy this book at a bargain price like $5. I bought it at BargainBookCo then have to throw it away. I wonder where all those 5 stars raters come from. I love
Apress books but definitely not this one.

Disorganized and packed with grammatical errors, spelling errors, and confusing or downright nonsensical sentence fragments, this book is incredibly difficult to read. An example, from page 13: "Using XML, it's easy to program XML files..."

That said, this book does have some interesting content. Were it not for the total distraction of the poor writing and total lack of editing, I would have enjoyed this book quite a bit.

I'm extremely disappointed, as I generally find that APress books are of very high quality. Avoid this book; there are much better titles available.

If you don't have any favorite author, I recommend this book. I am using VS.NET 2003 and wasn't sure if any ADO.NET book is written using VS.NET 2003. Just found this one and got it. Looks pretty good and code works fine. I found excellent coverage on latest additions to ADO.NET API such as ODBC data provider, ORACLE .NET data provider, MYSQL and XML .NET data provider. The author keeps is focus on SQL SERVER but also discusses other databases including EXCEL, ORACLE, MYSQL, XML, ACCESS etc. Overall a good book out there. You won't regret spending your money on this book. Good luck.

I can't put it in words how disappointed I am with this book; it's a complete waste of time. I've heard the rumors about M. Chands author capabilities, but now I know for sure: he can't write nor does he know anything about the subject he's writing about. I have bought plenty of Apress books in the past and I am more than satisfied with most of them, but this one goes straight in the bin where it belongs.

Looking over the reviews as I always do for a book I consider buying, I came across the authors extremely stupid review in which he actually gives his own work a 5 star rating. How can anyone do that? Okay, next thing I'm looking at is the way he tries to complain about other reviews; get over it and deal with it. I don't see other authors doing that. It's very incompetent and furthermore the language used gives me very poor hopes for the authors abilities to write in a competent manner. No way I'll buy a book from this author!

This book has been my best guru in learning the ins and outs of database programming and ADO.NET. Authors give you an in depth understanding of ADO.NET, interfaces, internal classes and namespaces. The do a thorough discussion of every area of ADO.NET. Book is upto date, written using .NET version 1.1 and covers every available data provider including SQL Server, OLEDB, ORACLE, MYSQL, XML, ODBC and whatever else. Good chapter on ADO.NET FAQ. If you are learing and writing database applications, this book is an absolute must have.

I personally found this book an excellent coverage and very informative. Besides ADO.NET information, its full with tips and tricks. As an intermediate developer, I fould coverage on custom data providers, interfaces, ADO.NET FAQ, and detailed internals of ADO.NET data binding very helpful. Also, good coverage on every aspect including ODBC databases, OLE DB, SQL Server, MysQL, ORACLE, SYBASE, and others. This book definitely gives you an insight of ADO.NET technology and how the technology works under the hood. If you are not very fond with the grammer and looking for a good technical book on database programming, this book is for you.

I rately give 5 start any book. A few exceptional books ;). This book is well written, organized, and expalained. I give it a 4 and I would recommend to any body writing database applications using VB.NET. You can give it a try. Cheers!