Mastering C# Database Programming

by Jason Price

Enter a New World of Database Programming C# and ADO.NET facilitate the development of a new generation of database applications, including remote applications that run on the Web. Mastering C# Database Programming is the resource you need to thrive in this new world. Assuming no prior experience with database programming, this book teaches you every aspect of the craft, from GUI design to server development to middle-tier implementation. If you're...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0782141838
• ISBN13: 9780782141832
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 688 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Quick, concise, clear, how-to-do C# explanations

- This is a rare helpful book that has cleared up many C# .Net mysteries for an experienced MsAccess VBA programmer. The author has found a method to help a programmer get up and running, within the C# environment, in a quickest amount of time possible, without getting bogged down in minutiae. The screenshots along with the code, and clear detailed explanations are a breath of fresh air. Many of us have to deal with frustrating programming examples where a programmer has to untangle all sorts of complexity, putting up with unhelpful side trips into other topics, just to find out how to extract data from a table. This book does the opposite. This book, Mastering C# Database Programming, has clean code that goes straight to the heart of matter, with little or no fan fare. With quick, concise, compact, and clear how-to-do explanations. By far the best C# book I own.

Great, but not for the beginners

This book is probably the best book in the market if you want to take your novice c# asp.net skills to intermediate/expert level. It provides plenty of good examples and practically all the knowledge you need to become a fully competent c# asp.net developer. I especially found the chapter on SQL and T-SQL particulary awesome. As a Senior DBA who has worked on SQL for 7 years, I thought the author had superb knowledge of SQL transactions which I rarely see even amongst the SQL books. I highly suggest every c# developer to delve deelply into the SQL chapters of this book as it will increase your T-SQL transaction knowledge exponentially.

Great

I thought it's great to C# programmers,as a reference Tool Book,and there also were lots of kind job to work with the Database....

Should be more than 5 stars

I bought this book and the same author's Visual C# .NET book, also from Sybex.I found the introductory chapter on SQL very useful, since I didn't know SQL to begin with; I found it contained everything I needed to know to get going with databases. Just enough without going overboard!This book teaches the basics of databases, and then plunges in to teach how to use C# to access a database. The book also teaches advanced data access using C#, such as caching data in an ADO.NET program.

Use it every day

I have this book and the author's other C# book from Sybex. I didn't know ADO.NET before buying this book and now I'm an expert. I use this book every day too!