Rating:  - Sceppa is the MAN!
If you do any real database access, you need this book. I bought Balena and Connell's book (I totally recommend both of them, incidentally, along with Les Smith's Add-Ins book), but this is at a different level. They have to address a broad audience. He addresses the Database developer. His stuff is clear, accurate (every app and code snippet works, I can't say that about everyone) and he can explain to every audience without being boring or too abstract.
I wasted almost two weeks building an app, that once I got his book was finished in under an hour.
David made me look really smart!
Rating:  - Don't Buy It!
Let me sum this review up in one long sentence:
Whenever I have a problem with ADO.NET and I have to refer to a book for the answer, I always start with this book, find nothing helpful at all, and end up finding the answer I need in 'ADO.NET in 24 Hours'.
Rating: - I can't see how an ADO.NET book could beat this one!
That's the only ADO.NET book you will need. Everything is clear and detailed. Sceppa provides many examples that I refer to every day. This book is a winner!
Rating:  - Good, but not enough...
For the first time in many time, I took the time to read a technical book from the 1st page to ist last one, and look at the code that comes with the book.
I've found that the book can be pretty good for those persons who doesn't have a background working with ADO.Net before, and wants to start; but is not enough for those - like me - that are working with ADO.Net for quite awhile.
I'd decided to buy it based on the name of "Core Reference", which meant to me, that maybe I could find some code that I'd never wrote before, even more coming from Microsoft Press, but it wasn't like this; rather, I found a book that shows sample code that should never be used on real life, that implies to me, that this kind of code enforces to unexperienced people to follow the guidelines exposed on the code snippets, to write inefficient code.
I found it also a bit expensive, based more in the size and presentation of the book, rather than in its content.
Anyway, a book is like wine, sometimes you need to open the bottle and taste it, to find whether you like it or not.
Hope this comment can help some guys trying to find more in deep treatment about ADO.Net.
Rating: - Good, but not enough...
For the first time in many time, I took the time to read a technical book from the 1st page to ist last one, and look at the code that comes with the book.
I've found that the book can be pretty good for those persons who doesn't have a background working with ADO.Net before, and wants to start; but is not enough for those - like me - that are working with ADO.Net for quite awhile.
I'd decided to buy it based on the name of "Core Reference", which meant to me, that maybe I could find some code that I'd never wrote before, even more coming from Microsoft Press, but it wasn't like this; rather, I found a book that shows sample code that should never be used on real life, that implies to me, that this kind of code enforces to unexperienced people to follow the guidelines exposed on the code snippets, to write inefficient code.
I found it also a bit expensive, based more in the size and presentation of the book, rather than in its content.
Anyway, a book is like wine, sometimes you need to open the bottle and taste it, to find whether you like it or not.
Hope this comment can help some guys trying to find more in deep treatment about ADO.Net.
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