ADO.NET and ADO Examples and Best Practices for VB Programmers [With CDROM]

by William R. Vaughn

Book Overview

Best-selling author Bill Vaughn gives practical advice that VB developers can use immediately to make their data access code faster and easier to write and understand. Completely updated and expanded from the first edition to include ADO.NET technology.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1893115682
• ISBN13: 9781893115682
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 771 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Great book!

THANK YOU for a great book! I purchased it and have not stopped reading. While this time around I am reading only, next time I will get the code going too. I will recommend this to everyone!

Excellent for VB progammers moving to .NET

I did not read the first half of the book, which covers ADO, but the second half, on ADO.NET is great! The style is easy to follow, the examples make sense and there are almost zero proofreading errors (which makes the book a standout among programming books by itself). The code examples in the text, are minimal, but the CD has the complete code and more. The examples on the CD work (another standout feature). This book is not for a beginning programmer, but it very good for an experienced progammer trying to make the move to ADO>NET, it was the 6th book that I read on the subject and after reading it, I was able to go back to my other books and understand things that had not made sense the first time I read them.

Excellent performance tuning examples

This book has is full of great information on how to get the best database performance from your code. The chapter on the SHAPE command was especially helpful on how to speed up my code just by changing the syntax. This is a must-have book for anyone using ADO and ADO.NET.

Best ADO Book money can buy.

...When I have a question about data access this is the book I reach for. It has everything I need in an ADO reference. If you write both VB and VB.Net applications that use ADO or ADO.Net; you have to get this book. It covers how to use, and when to use each object in Classic ADO (the author refers to it as ADOc) and ADO.Net. It also covers how and when to use ADOc in the .Net Framework to accomplish things that were left out of ADO.Net. The author does a very good job in contrasting the DataSet with the DataReader and when you should use one over the other. This book is well written with just the right amount of humor, and covers data access in VB and VB.Net very well. If you are looking for the best ADO(.Net) reference and how to guide, you have found it.tc

ADO Classic but not ADO.NET

I have been reading Bill Vaughn's books since the first Hitchhikers book (and I still have them all!). I found this book to be excellent in content for ADO Classic. The references and examples were well structured and most of them worked! As always I enjoyed Bill's style and method of getting the correct detail to the reader. I won't judge the content on ADO.NET yet as it is still an emerging technology and I don't understand it fully but will be waiting for next release of Bill's book that covers ADO.NET specifically.