ADO.NET is the data access model built into the .NET Framework. It replaces the old (and largely successful) ADO used in almost all Visual Basic and ASP applications built over the last few years. ADO.NET enables an application to communicate with any OLE database source (including Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft Access, and even text files). This book will present ADO.NET in a simple, easy -to-learn manner filled with many code examples and exercises. A reader with no previous knowledge of ADO.NET should be able to read this book and have a functional knowledge of new object model allowing them to retrieve and work with data from multiple data sources.
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Rating: - disappointing , frustrating and sloppy
I worked about half way through this book and then gave up.
While I will say the choice of examples seems good, the explanations are inadequate or missing. I did the entire chapter on sqlAdapters and could not understand what they are for. I opened up another book which explained simply that the point of an adapter is to encapsulate four sql commands, select, delete,insert & update. Oh yeah! Of course!
The examples are shoddy - many typos. Sometimes the C# code ... Read More
Rating: - It matches my expectation
I was a little apprehensive after reading the review here. So I actually went to a local bookstore (try it, it's fun!) to flip through the pages to see for myself before buying it online.
I think it's a case of setting the right expectations. It's not a "ADO.NET Bible" nor a 2000-page reference, so don't expect that type of detail from this book. However, this is for someone using Visual Studio .Net for the second time, right after having mastered sample VS tutorials and ready to ... Read More
Rating: - Very shallow, buggy code samples, has questions/exercises
I recommended this book to some programmers I was teaching .NET to. I liked that it contained questions and exercises, much like a text book, so they could do those on their own.
However, the sample code that we downloaded from the publisher's web site would not even compile most of the time! And most of the code samples are in ASP.NET, which they were not yet familiar with, and the into to ASP.NET and the instructions to getting IIS set up was incorrect and confusing.
- disappointing , frustrating and sloppy
- It matches my expectation
