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Building Distributed Applications with ADO

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This is a great book for anyone interested in programming your typical MTS system - You have a database and a bunch of clients who want to access it using MTS.

This book details the way you would do it with ADO and as a beginner's guide it is invaluable. A lot of people will say that you should buy Don Box's book, or even Ted Patterson's book first but this book is simple to understand and gives you all the basics before moving on to the more difficult topics. So start here first before you move on to the other books.

I'm just learning how all this new technology works and this text has been really great at getting me up and running quickly and efficiently. Unlike most books of this genre, the text here is easy to read (almost fun - for a technical book, that is) and the examples relevant and easy to follow. I highly recommend this text for anyone either looking to get started or who needs a more detailed understanding of this technology.

This book is very well organized, easy to use, and actually amusing in parts. The authors did a nice job. The best I've seen so far on the subject. I've recommended it to co workers.

While I've written both VB & C++ components, I must say that this book is written solely for VB programmers. In that context, the ADO coverage is good for beginners & reaches as far as paging, batch processing & disconnected recordsets albeit the coverage is light. From there on, the book runs dry with samples out of context & disconnected. Enter the C++ programmer & you are certain to lose interest rapidly. MTS & MSMQ coverage is a drudgery while parts II & III as they pertain to design & architecture are an endless toil. Am I alone in thinking that VB & enterprise should never be mentioned together due to the fact that they constitute an oxymoron?

Helps in developing concepts about ADO, MTS, MSMQ and DNA in general. Lacks connectivity in examples. The source code that I downloaded from site lacks comments, which make it easy to get lost. Some of the examples don't even compile.

I picked up this book with an expectation of finding a discussion (and examples) of applications that uses ADO with MTS and MSMQ all together -- I am disappointed. It talks about MSMQ only marginally.

Builds concepts, gives solid reason of using certain techniques not covered anywhere else, but lacks effective code examples.