Applied ADO.NET: Building Data-Driven Solutions

Applied ADO.NET: Building Data-Driven Solutions provides extensive coverage of ADO.NET technology, including ADO.NET internals, namespaces, classes, and interfaces. Whereas most books cover only the SQL and OLE DB data providers, authors Mahesh Chand and David Talbot detail the SQL, OLE DB, and ODBC data providers, as well as the latest additions to ADO.NET, the Oracle, MySQL, and XML .NET data providers. Chand and Talbot also cover the internals of data binding and provide detailed coverage of both Windows Forms and Web Forms data binding and data-bound controls. Because XML plays a major role in .NET development, the authors take a comprehensive look at XML namespaces and classes, and how to integrate both with ADO.NET.

The book begins with the basics of ASP.NET and data-bound controls. It then delves into the internals of data binding and shows how to use DataGrid, DataList, and other data-bound controls in real-world applications. Chand and Talbot also discuss the ASP.NET guest book, database XML Web services, and even an online bookstore site development and design process.

Advanced developers will learn from the coverage of ADO.NET architecture, related design issues, and how ADO.NET data providers are designed. The authors also show how to create a custom data provider. Event handling, server-side programming, data relations and constraints, Active Directory, messaging, exception and error handling, and the object relational model are other topics covered in detail.

User review
Don't buy this book
Don't even try to buy this book at a bargain price like $5. I bought it at BargainBookCo then have to throw it away. I wonder where all those 5 stars raters come from. I love
Apress books but definitely not this one.

User review
Good content, very poorly written and edited
Disorganized and packed with grammatical errors, spelling errors, and confusing or downright nonsensical sentence fragments, this book is incredibly difficult to read. An example, from page 13: `Using XML, it's easy to program XML files,,.`

That said, this book does have some interesting content. Were it not for the total distraction of the poor writing and total lack of editing, I would have enjoyed this book quite a bit.

I'm extremely disappointed, as I generally find that APress books are of very high quality. Avoid this book; there are much better titles available.

User review
Excellent
I looked at several ADO.Net books and found this one to have just the right combination of detailed explanation and clarity I was looking for. I would highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn ADO.Net.

User review
Must have
This book has been my best guru in learning the ins and outs of database programming and ADO.NET. Authors give you an in depth understanding of ADO.NET, interfaces, internal classes and namespaces. The do a thorough discussion of every area of ADO.NET. Book is upto date, written using .NET version 1.1 and covers every available data provider including SQL Server, OLEDB, ORACLE, MYSQL, XML, ODBC and whatever else. Good chapter on ADO.NET FAQ. If you are learing and writing database applications, this book is an absolute must have.

User review
Very Informative
I personally found this book an excellent coverage and very informative. Besides ADO.NET information, its full with tips and tricks. As an intermediate developer, I fould coverage on custom data providers, interfaces, ADO.NET FAQ, and detailed internals of ADO.NET data binding very helpful. Also, good coverage on every aspect including ODBC databases, OLE DB, SQL Server, MysQL, ORACLE, SYBASE, and others. This book definitely gives you an insight of ADO.NET technology and how the technology works under the hood. If you are not very fond with the grammer and looking for a good technical book on database programming, this book is for you.