ADO.NET is Microsoft's latest data access technology and, as an integral part of the .NET Framework, is far more than simply an upgrade of previous incarnations of ADO. ADO.NET provides an extensive set of .NET classes that facilitate efficient access to data from a large variety of sources, enable sophisticated manipulation and sorting of data, and forms an important framework within which to implement inter-application communication and XML Web Services.
This book provides a comprehensive guide to using ADO.NET, with plenty of practical code examples, extensive technical information, and a detailed case study. Whether you are developing Web Applications using ASP.NET, Windows Forms applications, or XML Web Services, this book will show you how to utilize .NET's data access technology to maximum effect.
This book covers:
ADO.NET and the .NET Framework
Using the .NET Data Providers to create connections and execute commands
Using the DataSet to manipulate data
ADO.NET and XML
Using COM Interoperability
Performance and security issues
User review
Excellent
I see that most of the complaints are about there not being any vb code. Granted, that is a reasonable complaint, but this book covered so much that other books haven't touched! I am amazed at how much I have learned from this book! I am finally excited about .NET instead of dazed and confused! Even if you know the general stuff, you need this book. I learned how to do things that I didn't know were even possible! This is the very first multi-author wrox book that I have given a good rating,,.you guys got this one right!
User review
Not For VB.Net programmers
Do not buy this book if you are a VB.Net programmer. It is more for the C# programmer. Many of the examples are in C#. It should be titled ado.net for C# programmers. It does cover the background of ADO.NET but if you are looking for examples that will fit into your program, do not look here. I wish I had gone to a book store to review the book before making a purchase. WROX books are ok, but stay away from this one.
User review
No Source Code
This book is not as good as Microsoft's ADO.NET book. The worst part is that WROX press does not have the source code for this book. So if you buy this book be prepared to do alot of typing.
User review
Great reference, but not enough real world examples
Although this book lacks real world examples, it provides complete reference for ADO.NET, and this book has examples in both VB.Net and C#.
For ADO.NET beginners to start to write code in ADO.NET, this book is not enough. This book is for developers who already have some ADO.NET experience, and need some information about specific method or property. --Reviewed by Richard X.
User review
A few things,,.
Many of the chapters in this book was really good, but a few things I didn't like :
* Not a word on concurrency!?!?!? I bought the book to get some thoughts on .Net concurrency strategies, but they completely avoided that subject.
* Did the authors of this book communicate at all during the writing of the book? A lot of things was brought up two or more times in different chapters. Propably the last time I buy a book where each chapter was written by a different author.
/Per Hultqvist
