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Summary: Good review of using XML for Microsoft Developers
Review: Although at work we use Microsoft products almost exclusively for development we have not yet moved to .NET. Despite this it was becoming important to gain a better understanding of XML technologies as some of our projects were begining to incorperate them. I wanted a book that went over XML fundamentals paying particular attention to how they are used by pre Visual Studio.NET development tools. As a developer who works primarily in Visual Basic 6.0 it was important that the book also use that language for most of the examples.This book covers about 80% of what I wanted. Having read it and worked through a few examples I am starting to use some of the tools within my applications. There was very little information in the book that was not useful in my understanding of the topic. Having said that there was a major ommision. The book gave very little coverage to how to use XML with databases, SQL Server in particular. I don't think that there was a single mention of SQL Server 2000's XML features, something that is at the heart of the Microsoft XML world. In a related issue the coverage of xml features in ADO 2.x was also non-existent. In short, the book is full of usefull information for 'real world' developers. It could however use an additional chapter or two on using XML with SQL server 2000 and another chapter on using XML with ADO 2.x
Rating:
Summary: Good review of using XML for Microsoft Developers
Review: Although at work we use Microsoft products almost exclusively for development we have not yet moved to .NET. Despite this it was becoming important to gain a better understanding of XML technologies as some of our projects were begining to incorperate them. I wanted a book that went over XML fundamentals paying particular attention to how they are used by pre Visual Studio.NET development tools. As a developer who works primarily in Visual Basic 6.0 it was important that the book also use that language for most of the examples. This book covers about 80% of what I wanted. Having read it and worked through a few examples I am starting to use some of the tools within my applications. There was very little information in the book that was not useful in my understanding of the topic. Having said that there was a major ommision. The book gave very little coverage to how to use XML with databases, SQL Server in particular. I don't think that there was a single mention of SQL Server 2000's XML features, something that is at the heart of the Microsoft XML world. In a related issue the coverage of xml features in ADO 2.x was also non-existent. In short, the book is full of usefull information for 'real world' developers. It could however use an additional chapter or two on using XML with SQL server 2000 and another chapter on using XML with ADO 2.x
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