Database Programming with Visual Basic .NET and ADO.NET: Tips, Tutorials, and Code [Paperback]

F. Scott Barker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 22, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0672322471 | ISBN-13: 978-0672322471 | Edition: 1

The topic combination of VB .NET and ADO.NET is unbeatable. VB .NET is the most popular language in which to code. And, every developer needs to understand ADO.NET to allow data to be accessed from a Web site. In this book Developers will be shown numerouse code examples that will illustrate how to program database driven applications within the .NET Framework. The book is aimed at both established and new VB Developers. Important topics covered include: Visual Studio development environment, ASP.NET applications, Windows Forms application, using VB .NET with ADO.NET, complex queries, security, COM interop., and application deployment.

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The topic combination of VB .NET and ADO.NET is unbeatable. VB .NET is the most popular language in which to code. And, every developer needs to understand ADO.NET to allow data to be accessed from a Web site. In this book Developers will be shown numerouse code examples that will illustr4ate how to program database driven applications within the .NET Framework. The book is aimed at both established and new VB Developers. Important topics covered include: Visual Studio development environment, ASP.NET applications, Windows Forms application, using VB .NET with ADO.NET, complex queries, security, COM interop., and application deployment.

About the Author

F. Scott Barker holds a bachelor of science in computer science and has worked as a developer in the database field for more than 16 years, first with Clipper, and then with Visual Basic, SQL Server, and Microsoft Access for the past 10 years. Scott has already created and deployed a number of ASP.NET Web sites for his clients.

Working at Microsoft for two years, Scott was a member of the Microsoft Access and FoxPro teams. Since leaving, he has been a contractor with Microsoft developing in-house tools used throughout Microsoft. With his company, Applications Plus, Scott has also been doing contract development for many Fortune 500 companies, developing in ASP.NET, Visual Basic .NET, C#, Visual Basic/Access/Office, and SQL Server.

Scott has trained for Application Developers Training Company and others all around the U.S. and is a frequent speaker at Microsoft conferences throughout the U.S., Canada, South Asia, and Europe. Through his classes and conferences, Scott has trained thousands of developers.

Scott is a writer for a number of development magazines and is the author of F. Scott Barker's Microsoft Access 2002 Power Programming, published by Sams, and Access 97 Power Programming, published by Que.

Scott can be reached at his Web site at www.appsplus.com, or via e-mail at [e-mail].

Product Details

• Paperback: 544 pages
• Publisher: Sams; 1 edition (September 22, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672322471
• ISBN-13: 978-0672322471
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,994,438 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good examples, but many errors, May 23, 2003

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Mark in NJ (Princeton, NJ) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Database Programming with Visual Basic .NET and ADO.NET: Tips, Tutorials, and Code (Paperback)

First of all, this book is not a reference. It is a book of samples and tutorials. It won't give you details about commands, objects or the nitty-gritty of why things work. It gives you examples of how to do things and only a very general discussion on how it works. It's up to you to learn the details from other sources. So you are best to purchase this with another more detailed reference that will give you the real low-down on ADO.NET.

Second and most troubling is that this book seems to be filled with errors. Some of their examples don't work. After following the steps in the book to the letter, your program won't run and you have to take time (sometimes minutes, sometimes hours) digging through other sources to figure out what this book didn't tell you so you can get things working.

This book answers many questions, but not all. Use it in conjunction with other materials.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended, February 20, 2003

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Rick Sline (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Database Programming with Visual Basic .NET and ADO.NET: Tips, Tutorials, and Code (Paperback)

This book covers the material well, especially for those who are familiar with VB.NET and SQL Server as the book is "for the serious developer." There's very little of the book wasted on background material. Rather than getting bogged down in a lot of theoretical discussion, Barker dives right into examples, making the technical points as he illustrates the examples.

The material in the book flows well from a simple bound list example all the way to some complex Windows and Web examples. Throughout the book, the standard Northwind database is used. Essentially all of the code uses the generic OleDB approach so the code would work with either SQL Server or Access; Barker points out the few differences between using the two approaches.

The general approach in the book follows a format of stating a business problem, a Technique section where the approach is discussed, then a series of numbered Steps, a How It Works section that completes any necessary fine points and finally a Comments section for additional information. Scattered throughout are small Note and Tip sections with pencil & light bulb icons - many are real gems, not to be missed.

A great deal of ground is covered in its 500 pages - essentially all the information one would need to build a respectable Windows or Web based application. If you're looking for information to build a robust n-tier application, there are other books which explain how to split the code between the tiers, this book gives a good foundation for that.

I noticed only a few inconsequential typos. The book was a pleasure to go through and presents a broad and reasonably deep coverage of the subject material.

1.0 out of 5 stars Plagado de errores, los ejemplos no compilan., July 24, 2003

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SILVIA (Monterrey, Nuevo Leon Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Database Programming with Visual Basic .NET and ADO.NET: Tips, Tutorials, and Code (Paperback)

Ninguno de los ejemplos compila, uno tiene que revisar los errores del compilador para corregirlos y poder ejecutar el programa.

Unicamente tiene recetas de cocina, uno sigue la receta, corrige los errores y el programa funciona, pero no explica en ninguna parte por qué se utilizó cuál o tal función o método.

No se recomienda en absoluto, es una perdida de tiempo y de dinero.