Professional ADO RDS Programming with ASP (Paperback)

by Charles Crawford, Jr. Caison (Author), John Papa (Author), Matt Brown (Author), Eric Wilson (Author)

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Amazon.com Review
The new ActiveX Database Object (ADO) and Remote Database Services (RDS) standards from Microsoft are still relatively new terrain for Web developers. Professional ADO RDS Programming with ASP provides all you need to know to be successful with these new APIs.

The book begins with a tour of earlier Microsoft database standards--open database connectivity (ODBC), Remote Data Objects (RDO), and Data Access Objects (DAO)--and then moves on to today's ADO and RDS. The authors provide blow-by-blow coverage of all the major ADO objects and methods along with many useful hints for successful programming. Standout material here is the coverage of ADO data shaping, which allows you to treat joined records as hierarchical record sets.

The authors also cover RDS, which allows you to cache records locally in Internet Explorer 4/5 browsers, even while users are disconnected from the Internet. The book looks at the various options for using ADO/RDS, including strategies for balancing server-side and client-side processing. More advanced sections explore building (and deploying) custom RDS COM servers with Visual Basic. Although much of the material here is Microsoft-specific (and will work best with Internet Explorer and SQL Server), there is also a chapter on accessing Oracle databases. The book closes with 200 pages of reference material, including ADO 2, RDS 2, and object linking and embedding database (OLE-DB) topics. --Richard Dragan

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The Wrox logo states that all Wrox books are written "programmer to programmer." Professional ADO RDS Programming with ASP, by Matt Brown, Charles Crawford Caison Jr., Peter DeBetta, John Papa, and Eric Wilson, is an excellent example of such a policy. It's practical, full of solutions, and code heavy. Even when discussing theoretical aspects, Professional ADO RDS maintains a practical style and never loses contact with the programming reality. Active Data Objects (ADO), and its web counterpart Remote Data Services (RDS), are hands-on subjects that leave little room for philosophical speculation. It's a subject that developers want covered in detail, sprinkled with workarounds and tips and, of course, without further ado! --Dino Esposito, Dr. Dobb's Electronic Review of Computer Books -- Dr. Dobb's Electronic Review of Computer Books

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Product Details

• Paperback: 580 pages
• Publisher: Wrox Press (1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1861001649
• ISBN-13: 978-1861001641
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,963,298 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars And you think you know ADO?, January 18, 2000

By	Maxime Bombardier (Montreal, Canada) - See all my reviews

I first bought this book for the RDS part since I've been working with ADO since it got out. I tought I knew ADO and even though I knew a lot about it, I've learned as much about ADO than about RDS with this book!

Good for any programmers working with ADO, as always, Wrox made it possible for beginners to understand the book and for experienced programmers to learn new stuff.

Another must by Wrox and I'm waiting to get a hand on the "Professional Ado 2.5 Rds Programming With Asp 3.0" that should be coming out soon.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Skip this Book, September 23, 1999

By A Customer

This is one of the worst technical books I have ever read. The first 6 chapters are redundant info that anyone working with ADO should have mastered. The examples are all 'By-The-Book' cases that have marginal relevance to real systems. The cover photo betrays the 'its not very serious' attitude conveyed by the authors. And like most WROX books much verbiage is spent marketing the technology. It is cheaper & easier to simply use the MSDN knowledgebase rather than waste money on this text.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If your a ADO RDS programmer this is a must have, February 1, 2000

By	Jason Dubreuil (United States) - See all my reviews

This is a great book because it shows you exactly what you need to know. They get to the point effectively with every topic. I like the real world questions being answered. Like client side or server side cursors. And topics on how to write the more efficient rs object. The only problem I have with this book is the writers lack of expertise with other databases. Like MS SQL server, and Sybase SQL server. Getting information on pitfalls with other database platforms would be invaluable. They kind of tickled us with the Oracle info, I want more now.