Ado Examples and Best Practices [Paperback]

William R. Vaughn (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 2000

A guide to making ADO programming more effective and making applications run more smoothly. Also addresses troubleshooting through better designs and coding practices. The CD-ROM includes all of the examples from the book, sample programs, and Visual Basic add-ins.

Product Details

• Paperback: 425 pages
• Publisher: Apress (May 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 189311516X
• ISBN-13: 978-1893115163
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,983,686 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

William Vaughn (1947-) was born to a military family and spent the first forty years of his life moving from base-to-base and city-to-city. He learned German in Wiesbaden, Spanish in El Paso and Thai in Bangkok. After travelling the world on business trips and speaking tours, he finally settled in Redmond, Washington in 1986. More recently, Bill has turned his talents to fantasy fiction. "The Owl Wrangler" is his newest creation. An early manuscript was characterized as "...another Watership Down" by his college writing professor. He enjoys writing, photography and sharing his experiences with anyone who'll listen. Bill is the father of two wonderful daughters and has two granddaughters who gave him inspiration for more than one of his books.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous book by the master, September 10, 2000

By 

Saul Martin (Redmond, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ado Examples and Best Practices (Paperback)

I started reading Bill Vaughn when he privately published his "Hitchiker's Guide to VB" a long time ago and have not been disapointed with his work - ever. (The Hitchiker's Guide is still available from Microsoft Press.)

This book is just as good as his great Hitchiker book and so is a must purchase for the experienced user of ADO. Note if you are new to ADO I wouldn't recommend this book as your first book! Instead I recommend two other books: Jeff McManus's "Database Development with VB" from Sams and Macdonald's "Serious ADO" from Apress the same people who published Vaughn's book.

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great tool for advanced ADO, November 18, 2000

By 

Justin B. Newman (Fairfax, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ado Examples and Best Practices (Paperback)

When my development team went whole-heartedly into ADO in a middle tier, we did so, at first, without the help of this book. As you know if you've looked around, there's not much out there. We survived. Then we found this book. So good every member of the team got a copy. This is a must read for anyone doing heavy ADO coding. It talks about _how_ ado works... so you can understand the ramifications of design decisions and work to design software that performs with ADO and utilizes its features to the fullest. If you can only have one ADO book (in addition to the help files), this is the book. If you're looking for an ADO tutorial, this really isn't it. If you're doing it and need advice and want to do it better, this IS it.

Yours,

-jbn

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Book for the VB Professional - Buy It, Read It., August 27, 2000

By 

Robert G Buttenhoff (Chandler, AZ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ado Examples and Best Practices (Paperback)

If you're looking for an ADO Reference, buy a different book. If you develop and maintain VB Database Applications w/ SQL Server back-ends, do yourself a favor and GET THIS BOOK!!

Does your clients applications run fine on one computer, and behave weird on another all of a sudden? Read this book to confirm what you have been thinking and learn proven ways to get around the "side-effects" (Bugs!) in ADO, and the 'migration' issues between ADO 2.0, 2.1, 2.1 (GA), and 2.5.

It's a pleasure to read a book written by someone who has obviously been in the ADO trenches. Vaughn does not pull his punches, so you will get the straight scoop on how ADO really behaves - not how it's supposed to behave as with the typical ADO Reference Book.

Enjoy!! -Rob