ADO.NET Examples and Best Practices for C# Programmers

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ADO.NET Examples and Best Practices for C# Programmers

by William R. Vaughn, Peter Blackburn
List Price: $49.95
Our Price: $34.97
ISBN: 1590590120
Publisher: APress (April, 2002)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 80,074
Average Customer Rating: 3.86 out of 5


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Rating: 5 out of 5


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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.

Rating: 4 out of 5


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Well-written and insightful
Vaughn and Blackburn not only understand how ADO.NET works, but how to communicate their knowledge in a pithy and clear way. The practical tips all struck home, and the sample code was useful. This book has the best stuff I've seen on ADO.NET. I wouldn't call it an ageless classic, but it's worth the $$ and the time that you may spend on it.

Rating: 3 out of 5


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Good book, but mis-titled IMO
The authors' expertise in the subject is clear. These guys have been doing this for a long time, and know it inside and out (or at least as well as can be expected at the time of writing). It reads really well, and their added insight is great.

My major issue with the book is that it really should have been titled "ADO.NET Examples and Best Practices for C# Programmers Who Are Already Experts in ADO Using SQL"

Basically if you aren't interested in the differences between ADO and ADO.NET, you'll find yourself skipping over quite a few sections. I got the feeling that I was reading stuff like this a lot - "This isn't any different than ADOc (how he refers to COM based ADO) so we'll just skip over that and get to what's different." Or - "Here is a comparison of how these ADO properties map to their ADO.NET equivalents."

In addition, if you are looking for info specific to anything other than SQL server, you may be disappointed. The book just makes minor mention of OLEDB.

If these issues aren't a concern for you, consider this a 5 star rating.

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