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Visual Basic Developer's Guide to ADO

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I am new to ADO and wanted detailed info on how to get around the new recordsets, modify them, bind them etc. This handbook will gloss over lots of points including ADO controls, Data environments, recordsets etc, but does not go into details. I would not recommend this book.

I think this book would be okay for someone who just needs VERY basic usage of ADO. The examples provided are very simple and there is no detailed info anywhere. There is not even a mention of the topic of OpenSchema and there is a 1 paragraph reference to ADOX & ADOMD. I recommend the ADO 2.1 Programmer's Reference by David Sussman.

Mr. Gunderloy's book makes for very good reading. It is by far the most well written Visual Basic book that I have come across. Unfortunately, most of the really interesting things in the book require ADO version 2.5--which apparently Microsoft released and then unreleased. There's nothing more irritating than having to use the Microsoft web site and then discovering the download you need is not available. Microsoft is supposed to re-release ADO 2.5 on February 17, 2000. When it does, this book will be very useful.

I bough this book a few week ago. I really like it a lot. I believe Mr. Gunderloy is the only one have a book about ADO in Visual Basic with some details in Data Environment and Data Report. Thank you for writing this book. It helps me in understanding more about the concept.

Mr. Gunderloy's book makes for very good reading. It is by far the most well written Visual Basic book that I have come across. Unfortunately, most of the really interesting things in the book require ADO version 2.5--which apparently only comes with Windows 2000. There's nothing more irritating than having to use the Microsoft web site and then discovering the download you need is not available.

Coming from a known expert on VB, SQL and Microsoft technologies, I was glad to read this title and not be let down. This book gives you a solid overview and gave me what I needed to know about ADO. Its a good read.

I just Purchased: Visual Basic® Developer's Guide to ADO by: Mike Gunderloy

At this line of code in the very first example : Private WithEvents mcnn As ADODB.Connection

I get this Error: Missing: Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects 2.5 Library

Microsoft.com/data does not publish ADO 2.5 yet