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Summary: A superb book...
Review: ADO .NET concepts are clearly presented. Helped me clear the MCAD .NET exams 70-316, 70-320 & 70-229.
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Summary: Es geçmeyin.
Review: Ado.Net adýna yazýlmýþ ayrýntýlý bir kitap sayýlabilir. Yeni baþlayanlar için, yada az bilgisi olanlarýn faydalanbileceði bence etkili bir kitap. Ancak kitap özellikle konuyu anlattýktan sonra baþvuru kýsmýnda bazen kodlarý tekrarlýyor. Yada anlattýðýnýn kalanýný bu kýsýmda veriyor. Bu biraz kafa karýþtýrýcý olabiliyor. Web kýsmýyla ilgili olan bölümleri biraz cýlýz bulsam da yeterli. Bu kitap da kaynak baþvuru olmayý hak eder kalitededir. Bence es geçmeyin.
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Summary: Easy Reading
Review: After reading many tutorials and books on ADO.NET, I must say that this was the best one so far.
Not only does it explain everything there is to know about ADO.NET, it does so in an entertaining and well presented manner.
The code samples are in both VB.NET and C#, and above all, they are complete, or at least complete enough to understand without having to refer to the code samples on the CD.
I was able to read and grasp the concepts explained in this book in less than a week.
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Summary: ADO Core Requirement
Review: Definitely is THE core reference for using ADO.NET. The book thoroughly covers the general usage of ADO.NET in using direct guidelines and examples for developers to quickly grasp the basic fundumentals and to use it more efficiently. The materials covered are carefully thought out. Each chapter focuses only on the subject at hand and ends with some very interest FAQ questions which also serves as an exellent chapter 's summary! The code examples are also very good, and are given in both VB.NET and C#. Their average lenght are about haft a page long, which makes them easy for the brain to compile and comprehend. The texts are printed on high quality paper and are well written which makes this book very friendly to read too. If you are new to ADO.NET and want to get a solid footing on using this technology, this book would be a requirement!
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Summary: THE Best ADO.NET Reference out there.
Review: Do NOT waste your money on ANY other book. This is the one. Covers every aspect of what's important, using a language that doesn't insult your intelligence (especially if you are an experienced developer) with stupid examples. The examples and scenarios this book covers are all "real world" or at least with real world application. They work and are easy to read. The author wastes no time in covering what you should already know and get down to business. My favorite ADO.NET book, reference or otherwise printed matter on the subject. If you are serious about ADO.NET get this book and look nowhere else.
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Summary: Good, but not enough...
Review: 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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Summary: Great Book
Review: Great book.
Efficient and clear writing from start to finish.
Well structured.
Covers important but easily overlooked issues not found in other books.
I wish he'd write an ASP.NET book.
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Summary: Simply outstanding
Review: I bought this book because I needed to do some specialized things with transactioning and change auditing, and I also needed some control over the way commands got implemented in my DataAdapters. The previous book we had on ADO.Net completely glossed over the details in areas like these, and generally tended to skim the surface on advanced topics. This book completely delivered the goods. There were detailed discussions of the 3 different ways to generate commands for a DataAdapter, and enough information on the pros and cons of each one that it made deciding on a plan of action pretty easy. There were also a lot of internal details about the way ADO.Net tracks changes, which made developing an audit strategy that fits with our existing audit schema much more straightforward, and there was more than enough discussion of transactioning to make it easy to proceed. It was also detailed enough about ADO.Net internals that it has given me a lot of ideas about things I can do with .Net that I hadn't thought of before -- a new technique for incremental synchronization, new optimization strategies, simpler ways of integrating ADO.Net into my objects. This is an extremely practical book that starts with the basics, but it discussed every advanced topic I needed covered at enough detail that when I was done with this book I had all of my questions answered. I can't think of anything better to say than that. Edited to add: I ignored the sample applications, so I can't really comment on them. I didn't need them at all, but I do know some people find them useful to work with. Also, the one thing I would like to see Mr. Sceppa expand on if there's a second edition is the discussion of Expressions, which are used in several places in ADO.Net, such as for filtering. There was enough detail for everything I've needed to do, but if you end up needing to write elaborate expressions, you'll have to go to MSDN for the details. A thorough discussion of expressions would have made a good appendix to this book.
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Summary: Very good
Review: I bought this book only knowing a little about ADO.NET. I had been frustrated by other books' sterile explanations and examples that only include the most rudimentary data aware setup using wizards. But this one delivered, including a set of tutorials in the back that cover ADO.NET strategies for Windows, and Web/ASP VS.NET development. And not only did it cover setting up these strategies for using data aware components, but it stopped afterward and then admitted that in most cases you wouldn't use completely data aware solutions and it showed how to do the same thing manually in code. Now that is not what I expected.
So why only four stars instead of five? I got lost in the tutorials once. I was creating the app from scratch according to instructions when it deviated to overview of outstanding points of the code rather than exhaustive examination of the code. Then I had to open the sample projects and divine some of it from the code and compare to mine. That was probably my fault but it was distracting. Also the naming conventions are hungarian notation for some variables and control names (which is discouraged in newer C# VS.NET documentation) and the C# code had VB-type Pascal-case rather than correct Camel case. This is typical in most C# Microsoft documentation in books and online, which is obviously ported from VB to C# examples and doesn't follow documented recommended naming conventions (sorry, a pet peeve of mine).
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Summary: Excellent Value
Review: I purchase a lot of computer books, mostly over the Internet, and many times feel cheated when the book arrives, but not this time. David Sceppa knows the subject matter and is able present it in an understandable form. In addition, unlike so may others this book comes with a durable cover, searchable CD ROM, and source code. I think this book is a worthwhile addition to any library.
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