Beginning Visual Basic .NET Databases teaches Visual Basic .Net developers the concepts and skills necessary to write VB.Net database applications. This book touches on database design concepts but focuses on using ADO.Net to access and manipulate data in relational databases. While the book covers all data providers in ADO.Net briefly, the primary objective is to focus on using the OleDb provider for accessing Access databases and the SQL provider for accessing SQL Server databases.
What does this book cover?
Readers learn how to how to use queries, views, and stored procedures to efficiently access and manipulate data from their applications. We provide examples and instruction on accessing data from Windows applications, ASP.Net applications, as well as Web Services.
Specific coverage includes the following:
ODBC
OleDB
SQL, Stored Procedures, and Views
Creating Queries
Building a Data Access Class
Selecting and Updating Data
Accessing Data in ASP.NET
Working with XML Web Services
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Run Away!!!
If you want info now, don't buy this book. To get anything useful you have to read the whole the whole thing and do all the exercises. I prefer books that have many good clear examples that you can work through and learn from. I don't have time to use this type of book.
Rating: - Exceptional Book
This book is exceptional. I have been programming for quite a while, so some of these are old hat, but the presentation is well thought out, easy to follow, quick to learn. Just an exceptional book for this topic.
Not only do you get to use ADO.NET on Access, but SQL Server and/or Oracle, as well as ASP.NET and Web Services. All without breaking into a sweat.
I had a question about one thing and I posted on the Wrox forum for the book. The author himself responded very quickly ... Read More
Rating: - Very Good but ..
Very good book for beginners but the drawback of this book can be summarized in 2 points:
1) ASP.NET 2.0 beta release had been announced and it fly with coding to the next level where you can get rid of 70% your code lines (according to Microsoft !, and this includes database classes and objects which changed dramatically in ASP.NET 2.0 . So, why to learn an old version ;).
2) I rated this book "4" stars, because some of the examples in this book are very long where you get ... Read More
Rating: - Fantastic Book for learning VB.NET & ADO.NET
I am a novice Visual Basic programmer. I learned VB6 several years ago while I was still in college, but during the last six years working as a consultant, I haven't done any coding. Then a project came along where I was going to have to begin coding again. So, I looked into the latest version of Visual Basic, which is Visual Basic.Net 2003 or 1.1. What I didn't realize is that VB6 and Visual Basic.Net are not very similar at all. The biggest difference that I found was that VB.Net is truly object ... Read More
- Run Away!!!
- Exceptional Book
