Pro ADO.NET 2.0 (Expert's Voice) (Paperback)

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<p><b>Purchase this book and you'll get the free, fully searchable eBook&emdash;a $25 value!</b> (Details are printed inside the book. (Sahil Malik) covers stuff that real developers are confronted with over and over everday. He intentionally focuses on problem areas and how to address them. (And) the absolute best thing about this book is it's readability. </a></p> </blockquote> <p id="quoteAuthor">&#8212; Bill Ryan, Bill's House O Insomnia</p></div>

<p><i>Pro ADO.NET 2.0</i> is a guide and reference for.NET developers who are looking to further their understanding of ADO.NET 2.0.</p> <p>This book takes a new approach, focusing on the practical tasks like connecting to the database, retrieving data, and working with transactions, rather than rehashing much of the MSDN documentation. <i>Pro ADO.NET 2.0</i> offers the deep and much needed practical understanding, viewpoint, and knowledge developers are looking for.</p> <p>This book explains what is available in ADO.NET by associating it with the need to solve a practical problem and better architect an application, rather than mugging up the hundreds of classes and properties available in the framework.</p>

About the Author

Sahil Malik has been working as a consultant in Microsoft technology for about 9 years now. He has worked for many top notch clients across the globe including many fortune 100 companies and government organizations within the United States. Malik started programming in a DOS world, moved to Win32 API, Borland C++, MFC, VC++/ATL, VB 6, and eventually to .NET in both VB.NET and C# worlds. He is currently helping architect a highly visible public website using ASP.NET 2.0/SQL Server 2005, and also leads the office of emerging technologies at a prominent government office. Malik frequently speaks at local user groups and conferences.For his community involvement and contribution, he has also been awarded the Microsoft MVP award.

Product Details

• Paperback: 584 pages
• Publisher: Apress (September 19, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590595122
• ISBN-13: 978-1590595121
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.8 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #112,281 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great explanations, huge sections missing, February 22, 2006

By	NetDeveloper "Robert" (Houston, Texas) - See all my reviews

Sahil Malik definitely knows his stuff and knows how to drive the important points home. His explanations rock! After Shawn Wildermuth's Pragmatic ADO.net book, which is now pretty aged, this is the best ADO.net book I have read.

There is no mention of ObjectDataSource and only a superficial mention of SqlDataSource and data binding as part of a Hello World asp.net example, while the rest of the book ONLY deals with win forms examples.

I have the e-book too, which is a searcheable pdf and I searched for ObjectDataSource. I expected at least a full chapter on it if not more. I thought that in my delirium I must have missed it so I searched over and over in deibelief: 0 results.

Please someone point out where I missed it and make a fool of me 'cause I would rather take that than accept that someone would dare title a book Ado.net 2.0 without ObjectDataSource.

Sahil has spent some time in the blogs on this but I am not rating his blog here. Were it not for this huge omission I would give the book 5 stars. I consider this such a letdown and have to average that with zero stars (matching the number of results I got for ObjectDataSource search) to a total of 2.5 stars.

I still recommend the book. The sections he does cover are masterpieces. Just be aware this cannot be the only Ado.Net 2.0 reference you own. You would have to spring for another one.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent ADO.NET Coverage, November 30, 2005

By	T. Anderson (PA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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This book has both C# and VB.NET examples. The author thoroughly covers ever aspect of ADO.NET 2.0.

He covers the ADO.NET Object Model, Connection Objects, Object-Oriented vs. Relational Representation, DataSets, The DataAdapter, Mapping, Editing Disconnected Data, Conflict Detection and Concurrency Resolution, Transactions, SQL Server Native XML Support, CLR in SQL Server, T-SQL vs. SQLCLR vs. Extended Stored Procedures, and Caching Data.

Everything he covers is very thorough and includes examples. The style he writes in flows very well.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A masterpiece from start to finish., October 4, 2005

By	William G. Ryan "Uber Book Nerd" (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

From start to finish, Sahil knocked the ball out of the park. This book serves as a definitive guide to ADO.NET 2.0 and manages to hold the readers interest throughout. Over and over again, he drills down into the more challenging areas that developers have to deal with and gives a ton of real world advice on it. The ADO.NET coverage is obviously a little more in depth than the XML coverage, but that's totally to be expected. A few areas that really stick out are Transactions (which has been dramatically changed in the 2.0 Framework) both simple and distributed. He does a great job of explaining all the jargon in an easy to understand way. Connection Pooling is another (less sexy but every bit as important) area that stands out. So many people get into trouble here and he covers all of the why's so well that there's no room for any ambiguity. I also really liked his discussion of 'Cowboy' type connections - you'll have to buy the book to see what I'm talking about though.

I thought his first ADO.NET book was as good as they get and he repeated his success here. Wonderful from start to finish.