Rating:  - What a page turner!
Simply the best thorough coverage of ADO.NET I've seen ... and I can't stop reading it!
Rating: - Great book for learning ADO.NET
This book is pretty well written with a good logical flow. The author even throws in a bit of humor to soften the topic a little. This book does a great job of explaining a lot of the objects related to the ADO.NET model. I found the DataAdapter information very helpful. There is a lot to ADO.NET and this book covers a lot of that material. Reading this book should arm you with enough information to begin coding ADO.NET applications and find out the stuff not talked about for yourself. Good stuff!
Rating: - They Don't Get Much Better
In the .NET arena, there are a zillion books available. Many are rehashes of the documentation; many aren't worth the paper they're written on. This book isn't one of those. David Sceppa (who turns out to not only be an excellent writer, and a strong public presence on the support newsgroups, but a sincerely nice guy), has written a book that's actually useful. Not only does it include explanations of how ADO.NET fits together, David's book also includes explanations of how and why you should make choices about particular implementation details in your applications. The comfortable tone, the reliability of the information, and the graciousness of the author make this a top pick, from my perspective. (I must confess that I've found a few small details that have changed in the product since the time David wrote the book, and he's been incredibly responsive, when possible, to my correspondence. Not many authors take the time to respond immediately, if at all.) I wish there were more books out there like this one.
Rating:  - A reasonably well writen book on ADO.NET
Overall this book is a collection of various ADO.NET topics from the SDK and documentation. David Sceppa has managed to collect all the various topics and re-write them and simplify the subject. The book does flow well. Chapter 13 ties all the pieces of the technology together.
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Rating: - Best and newest book on ADO.NET
Very good book. It's very easy to read and understand. The most important thing that I liked was lots of programming hints. The author gives you several techniques to choose from and then explains advantages/disadvantages of using them (like speed, amount of code to write). I was specifically looking for advanced update scenarios, and the book gives a lot explanation on that too (resolving update conflicts, getting autoincrement/timestamp values from the database, updating hirachical data). It's also a good reference for everyday use.
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