ADO Examples and Best Practices [With CDROM]

by William R. Vaughn

ADO (Active Data Objects) is how the millions of Visual Basic programmers hitch onto Microsoft's amazing "Universal Database Access" strategy. But power breeds complexity, and using ADO isn't trivial... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 189311516X
• ISBN13: 9781893115163
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Great information for the Developer

If you use ADO, you need this book. Much like Bill Vaughn's early "HitchHiker's Guide to SQL Server" this book tells you everything Microsoft forgot to warn you about in ADO. Filled with tips, tricks and gotcha's, this book could save you countless hours of debugging, and endless frustration. It has for me. Plus, Bill Vaughn is an amusing author, who makes what could be a very dry and boring subject actually entertaining.

Finally, the ADO book I'd been looking for...

After several frustrating hours with the David Sceppa (Microsoft) and WROX Press ADO books, I finally found in Bill Vaughn's work exactly what I'd been looking for: a list of best practices for working with ADO in a client-server environment. Excellently written, great examples, and just as compulsive as me!

Great tool for advanced ADO

When my development team went whole-heartedly into ADO in a middle tier, we did so, at first, without the help of this book. As you know if you've looked around, there's not much out there. We survived. Then we found this book. So good every member of the team got a copy. This is a must read for anyone doing heavy ADO coding. It talks about _how_ ado works... so you can understand the ramifications of design decisions and work to design software that performs with ADO and utilizes its features to the fullest. If you can only have one ADO book (in addition to the help files), this is the book. If you're looking for an ADO tutorial, this really isn't it. If you're doing it and need advice and want to do it better, this IS it.Yours,-jbn

Fabulous book by the master

I started reading Bill Vaughn when he privately published his "Hitchiker's Guide to VB" a long time ago and have not been disapointed with his work - ever. (The Hitchiker's Guide is still available from Microsoft Press.) This book is just as good as his great Hitchiker book and so is a must purchase for the experienced user of ADO. Note if you are new to ADO I wouldn't recommend this book as your first book! Instead I recommend two other books: Jeff McManus's "Database Development with VB" from Sams and Macdonald's "Serious ADO" from Apress the same people who published Vaughn's book.

A Book for the VB Professional - Buy It, Read It.

If you're looking for an ADO Reference, buy a different book. If you develop and maintain VB Database Applications w/ SQL Server back-ends, do yourself a favor and GET THIS BOOK!! Does your clients applications run fine on one computer, and behave weird on another all of a sudden? Read this book to confirm what you have been thinking and learn proven ways to get around the "side-effects" (Bugs!) in ADO, and the 'migration' issues between ADO 2.0, 2.1, 2.1 (GA), and 2.5.It's a pleasure to read a book written by someone who has obviously been in the ADO trenches. Vaughn does not pull his punches, so you will get the straight scoop on how ADO really behaves - not how it's supposed to behave as with the typical ADO Reference Book.Enjoy!! -Rob