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Pro ADO.NET 2.0 View Larger Image | Sahil Malik
Apress, Paperback, Published September 2005, 584 pages, ISBN 1590595122 | List Price: $49.99
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Pro ADO.NET 2.0 is a guide and reference for.NET developers who are
looking to further their understanding of ADO.NET 2.0.
This book takes a new approach, focusing on the practical tasks like connecting
to the database, retrieving data, and working with transactions, rather than
rehashing much of the MSDN documentation. Pro ADO.NET 2.0 offers the
deep and much needed practical understanding, viewpoint, and knowledge developers
are looking for.
This book explains what is available in ADO.NET by associating it with the
need to solve a practical problem and better architect an application, rather
than mugging up the hundereds of classes and properties available in the framework.
About the Author
Sahil Malik has been working as a consultant in Microsoft technology for
about 9 years now. He has worked for many top notch clients across the globe
including many fortune 100 companies and government organizations within the
United States. Malik started programming in a DOS world, moved to Win32 API,
Borland C++, MFC, VC++/ATL, VB 6, and eventually to .NET in both VB.NET and
C# worlds. He is currently helping architect a highly visible public website
using ASP.NET 2.0/SQL Server 2005, and also leads the office of emerging technologies
at a prominent government office. Malik frequently speaks at local user groups
and conferences. He also co-wrote Pro ADO.NET with VB .NET 1.1. For
his community involvement and contribution, he has also been awarded the Microsoft
MVP award.
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews: 1 Average Customer Rating: Dec 31, 2005 A review from Texas
Good not great
Stated user level is beginner-intermediate. Good theoretical discussions but if you are not familiar with interfaces, inheritance, and abstract classes you will have trouble those discussions. A beginner may not have that knowledge. Not a smooth transition to tie the exercises back to the theory. Exercises are at a beginner-intermediate level but they don't build on each other to the extent they could. For example one exercise is how to read a stongly typed dataset from XML. Then a later lesson uses a new strongley typed dataset read from XML but the text of the XML in not included in the book. If the exercises had built on each other it would have been easier for the reader. Found myself referring to ADO.NET (1.0) by Sceppa for features that had not changed and to MSDN2.Microsoft.Com for 2.0. In the final chapter is a good discussion on best practices for example DataReader vs DataSet. In looking for a reference book I prefer the strengths and weaknesses be covered within the topic. Still a good book just not up there with Troelsen C# as a learning and reference tool.
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