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

by William R. Vaughn and Peter Blackburn

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: 1590590120
• ISBN13: 9781590590126
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Hands down the clearest book on ADO.NET

I bought many books to assist in clarifying what the best ways are to do things in ADO.NET, and this is the only one I continue to read. The authors and their support staff obviously have a clearer and better understanding of both the technology and best practices to provide the reader with real world examples of how to do many things concerning data in .NET. Other books throw a load of scrambled information at you and 'dance' around the subject without definitively answering the questions that need to be answered, effectively writing black box 'definitive sources' about the subject.If you're a developer looking for the right answers, the best practices for doing things, what is bad and what is good and why, then this should definitely be in your library. With such a wealth of information regarding ADO.NET available (yet none of it conclusive), you can easily spend most of your time consulting online documentation and reference books and all of your efforts be a waste of time. This book is the only exception, and I would recommend it to anyone.

Tops for practicality on the job

Of my 8 books with ADO.NET, this is the one I am using. I needed to know how to manually run through and manipulate rows and columns. I needed to use complex business logic with a database. My work involves more than displaying some simple DataGrid. This book gives the examples for manually code ADO.NET.

Excellent title

This is an excellent book that will get you up to speed on ADO.NET and teach you more than a few things you probably didn't already know about both ADO.NET and C#. It's well worth the price and is definitely a must-have .NET book.

Simply the best

Vaughn's first book on ADO, ADO Examples and Best Practices (APress), was the best book on ADO I'd ever read.Well... guess what. This is the best book on ADO.NET I've ever read!Vaughn shows you not only *how* you can accomplish something in ADO.NET, but the *best* way to accomplish it as well.This is a MUST have for any .NET / ASP.NET programmer.

Great Read, Great Humor, Good Advice

I never thought I'd read a database programming book with coded sex messages. But the catching of SqlException in the examples with a variable name of 'sex' and the ensuing 'sex.Message' has tickled my sense of humor and had me scouring the rest of the code examples for the authors humor. In so doing I've actually been learning and more importantly understanding far more about ADO.NET than I have been able to do with some of the other dryer books on ADO.NET I bought at the same time. Thanks for the amusement Bill and Zebedee.