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Summary: Good book need more code samples on CD
Review: This book is pretty good. The one big shortfall for em was that it only includes samples from Chapter 11 to the end of the book. It would be nice to have some from the other chapters. The author suggests installing the e-version and then copying and pasting, but this is a big hassle when you could just open the solution and go from there!
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Summary: Great book for learning ADO.NET
Review: 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!
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Summary: Not bad, but there are better
Review: This book isn't bad. I have this one and the Sybex book "Mastering C# Database Programming". The Sybex book is better because it teaches you the fundamentals of databases as well as accessing a database using C#.
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Summary: Great introduction to ADO.NET
Review: This book provides a great introduction to ADO.NET. It covers the various aspects of connected and connectionless data access very well. I do feel like I need another book for more advanced topics (caching of data in scalable enterprise environments, for example), but this book is a great start.
One complaint, that has more to do with the writing style, is that the author tends to introduce a way of doing something, only to show a more correct way later in the book. If you need to use the book as a reference, you have to be aware that you might flip to a "bad" way of doing something that is later improved.
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Summary: Good intro to ADO.Net programming
Review: This book was very instrumental in my leap from classic ADO to ADO.Net. The book is very easy to follow and gives good code examples. The book gives a great introduction to all the key principles of ADO.Net and won't leave you stranded without a clue.The only downsides to this book are:
The book is written for both C# and VB.Net development and would have been very thin if not so. The book was a very quick read, only taking about 4 days to finish. More detail could have been given in the space taken. The other problem I had was that the cover of the book came unglued from the book when I was about 1/2 way through, which wasn't pleasing to say the least.
Lastly, some examples contain errors, which only slightly takes away from the greatness of the book. Based on content and how easy it was to pick up on ADO.Net I have to give 4 stars.
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Summary: Good Helpful Book
Review: This is a book that is worth the price. I use it often as a reference and with it I have gotten my project's data access under control. Bottom Line..Great Book!
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Summary: What book did these people read?
Review: This is a mediocre book. It might have been a pretty good book at 300 pages. There's much content that seems to have been included for no other reason than to add bulk - listing all the examples in VB.NET and C#, for instance. Then the construction of each chapter, where the first half gave a pretty good review of how an class and it methods and properties provided a certain functionality, followed by redundant description of all the properties and methods. The chapter on Efficient Web Applications was completely vacuous - to the author's credit he basically concedes that at the top of the chapter, refering the reader to another book. My question would be why include it in the first place? [...].
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Summary: easy to read tutorial
Review: This is an easy to read tutorial (with some reference sections) that covers ADO.NET in depth. I held back a star due to the ... last two chapters (sample applications). The sample Windows application is ... not real world. The sample web application is really an introduction to ASP.NET and doesn't spend a lot of time on ADO.NET. Still, the first 12 chapters are great and I won't let the short comings of the last two stop you from buying this book.
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Summary: A complete ADO.NET for C# and VB
Review: This is one of the best ADO.NET books. The author uses both VB and C# examples. The CD contains both languages and Visual Studio projects.
The author does not favoritize a database. You can use any DB you want.
If you have programmed before and want a complete reference and alot of examples. This is the book for you.
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Summary: Good reference.
Review: This is primary a how to get sarted book. Like most core reference books it doesn't really push the envelope, but more core reference books don't. I would have liked to see more information about data adapters and table mappings (the book assumes you are going to use a wizard for this).
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