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ADO.NET and ADO Examples and Best Practices for VB Programmers (Second Edition)
by William R. Vaughn, Bill Vaughn
List Price: $54.95
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ISBN: 1893115682
Publisher: APress (February, 2002)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 109,289
Average Customer Rating: 4.1 out of 5
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Rating: 3 out of 5
Pretty good, missing a very important feature IMHO
The first half of the book is old technology (VB6), I was nervous when I ripped it open and began reading the first couple chapters... then I saw the second half is about ADO .NET or database programming for VB .NET (phew!). So, depending on what you're using 1/2 of the book will be useless for you. I happen to be going from VB6 to VB .NET. He explains through great detail and with surgical precision what things are, how to connect to stored procedures, all sorts but it's all based on datasets. For example, like most people my program has multiple forms. This book was useless on helping me re-use a connection. I began programming each form needing to open a connection when necessary each and every time. I figured out myself (after about 18 hours) how to use a connection from another form and had to scoff at how easy... but it's one of those things that takes forever until you get it. Another is binding controls in VB .NET. If in code I create the connections and dataset and I want a textbox to display the customer name, you won't find the answer in this book and I think that's basic stuff. The thought of having an example where you select a customer from a grid and display the info of that customer on labels or textboxes bound to the record is no where to be found in this book. I'd like to know how to update/delete them as well from those textboxes but as said previously the only control used in the entire VB .NET section is a datagrid, you'll know more about datagrids than you'll know what to do with and I think he should've branched it a little to other controls. Now, I'm searching on my own again on how to bind a dataset to a textbox.
Rating: 5 out of 5
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.
Rating: 5 out of 5
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Like all of Bill's work, this book kicks butt. If you do anything more than lightweigth ADO.NET programming, make sure you add this to your library
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