As I am writing my book, I find myself frequently referring to the stash of many ADO.NET books I have. One of the books I have been looking into is this right here.
— Sahil Malik, '.NET Monkey'
VB .NET is a powerful programming .NET programming language that is often considered the 'workhorse' of programming. Further, programming in VB .NET accounts for a huge portion of all programming effort taking place currently. To understand VB .NET is to meet challenging programming projects head on.
Author Dan Maharry livens the topic with his unique style, and presents you with the skill set you want and need, to enter todays VB .NET programming jobs. This book is an ideal read for you, beginning and intermediate VB .NET students, who want to understand the core of VB .NET and database programming. Dan Maharry is at the height of his powers, and promises to lead you on a memorable VB.NET journey.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Plenty of theory, few VB examples
I purchased this book with the hope of finding useful snippets of VB code for reading and writing to databases. Unfortunately, while there is plenty of discussion on the SQL foundations for working with databases, there is little help here for beginners using the "dive right in" approach.
Rating: - Comprehensive walkthrough
This is a well thought out and written walkthough of database access in VB.NET. There are a lot of screenshots and graphics, but it works well for the methodical prose that guides you through, what on it's face seems simple but can get complex as you go to professional grade database applications.
It starts with an introduction to the the complete system, then goes into user interface work, database design, queries, transactions, and finally advanced topics.
Rating: - focus on VB to ADO to databases
The book is somewhat of a sister to a recent "Beginning ASP.NET 1.1 Databases", with that book's author being one of the authors of this text. There is little here on the elementary, standalone syntax and usages of VB.NET 1.1. That is adequately covered elsewhere. The emphasis is on hooking to databases. Where these are SQL-based, in most practical cases. The text gives much detail about constructing in VB the various SQL commands to be sent to the database server, as queries or statements. And, of ... Read More
- Plenty of theory, few VB examples
- Comprehensive walkthrough
- focus on VB to ADO to databases
