Binding: Paperback
Format: Bargain Price
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 950
Publication Date: August 31, 2001
Sales Rank: 3124906
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A disappointment
I'm normally a big fan of the Wrox books. They generally do an excellent job of selecting authors and editors. This book, however, was a huge disappointment for me.
Others have said, "It's full of samples." While this is true, many of the samples are for very obvious functionality, whereas very fundamental and complex functionality ends up getting minimal treatment (an example is the Fill() methods for the Data Adapter). While there's more written explanation of the Fill() methods, it ... Read More
Rating:  - Code Samples Galore - not typical reference in good way!!!
This book is the single most valuable book I bought from WROX in terms of being able to borrow ADO.net code for my application.
ADO.net is the most undocumented are of .net and this book offers hundreds of code samples. The COM Interopability chapter is very good and introduces he obcure Recordset fill and how to use ADOMD from .net!
The Transaction chapter is way too small and incomplete. Another flaw is the fact that the book is supposed to cover VB.net and C# but they were ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent as a reference
Wrox lists this book as a "Programmer's Reference". In a reference I look for detailed information and code samples demonstrating usage all of which should be more extensive than what can be found in the help files or online API. This book succeeds very well as a reference providing a great deal of information that you will want to have nearby while you are coding. The book starts off with a description of ADO.NET which I found to be the weakest part of the book. This section doesn't quite put all ... Read More
Rating:  - Lots of typos and poor coding practices
This book has lots of typos, and many of the variables are incorrectly capitalized as if someone did a reckless search and replace during the editing process. Also, the code examples follow C++ idioms that aren't suitable for C# programming (for example, declaring variables far in advance of their actual use).
Rating: - ok, but should have been better.
This book was ok and makes an ok reference. Some areas are covered really well, but it always seemed like when I really needed more details that this book didn't provide them.
In addition, there were many many typographical errors such as misspellings, and almost every entry in the index is off by at least a page or two (no joke).
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