Essential ADO.NET

by Bob Beauchemin

ADO.NET enables Windows applications to access many types of databases from a variety of different vendors. This text provides a guide for developers who want to transition to ADO.NET and is focused... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201758660
• ISBN13: 9780201758665
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 521 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Outstanding book

This book really explains the workings of ADO.NET in clear English. I suspect that the author must have spent many hours tracing the SQL traffic between PC and Database server. Writing a database intensive application from scratch requires a lot of careful planning. After a few reads from this book, one can design an efficient data layer and deal with nasty problems such as concurrency, provider details and overall performance. Outstanding book - I can't wait for an update when .NET 1.1 arrives.

Great Read, must buy for using ADO.NET

Bob's book really explains the under the cover details of ADO.NET well. He does not bore you with pages after pages of sample code. He describes a concept, gives a brief sample, then moves on. For his first book, he did a great job. The book reads well and flows well. Lots of developers just want to know how so they can crank out code. Then, later when things do not work or scale, they wonder why. If this is you, pick up another ADO.NET book. Bob explains how and then some.

After using the book I wish this guy will write more books

Every time I can't find something I refer to this book it didn't disappoint me yet.

If you're programming with ADO.NET, you need this book!

There is no question that Bob Beauchemin knows his stuff! Anyone who has done any database programming and wants to learn ADO.NET should read this book. Bob obviously has an incredible knowledge of database access standards and ADO.NET is no exception. I have read a number of books on ADO.NET at this point, but none of them even come close to explaining it in the clear and concise way that Bob does in this book. Having programmed with ODBC, OLE DB, and ADO, I loved the chapters that compare the common concepts and point out the ways to accomplish the same tasks that I was familiar with from the other standards.

This book rocks!!

This books leave all other ADO books far, far behind! It is clear that the author really, really knows his stuff and have a lifetime worth of data base knowledge. In addition to this he knows how to transfer this knowledge to the reader, and even the most esoteric detail becomes understandable. Thanks to this book i have already solved a couple of really "unsolvable" problems, in a project I'm working on at the moment. If you are working with ADO.NET; this book is a must.Fred