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Summary: WARNING to anyone with an I.Q. above 50
Review: This book could have been written in 100pgs or less. Instead, the book has been bulked with information that does not even pertain to ADO.Net. If you are writing a book about a specific topic, PLEASE ASSUME THAT WE KNOW THE BASICS OF .NET and C#. I don't understand the mentality of authors who treat their readers as "You're a novice and you know nothing so before we continue, let's start at the beginning, the very beginning...this is the START button...". I would say that the author knows little about optimization because he never gets beyond the kindergarten level of expertise. Don't look at the sample code! You would be better off writing your own and it will work better than that provided by this book. Highly dissappointed in my purchase.
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Summary: Totally Unfocused...
Review: This book covers way too much ground at a very shallow depth. This is not a good buy for an experienced software developer. I think a title of "A Beginner's Guide to Things Related to ADO.net" would be more appropriate.
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Summary: This book is an excellant job
Review: This book is a great coverage for beginners like me. I just moved to ADO.NET and found this book very useful and easy to understand. Book shows connectivity with many databases such as SQL Server, MS-Access, Sybase, MySQL, and even Oracle 8i and 9i.
Besides discussing OleDb, SQL Server, and ODBC data providers, two chapters are dedicated to ASP.NET Web applications and Web Services. After reading this two chapters, I found writing ASP.NET Web applications and Web Servers are peice of cake.
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Summary: Very disappointing
Review: THis book is a joke. There is nothing in it than I can use in my daily work. Although there are some neat xml stuff, its beginners stuff, and as far as the authros knowledge of database is conercned, well I will leave you guessing.
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Summary: The near perfect introduction to ADO.NET
Review: This book is an excellent introduction for the developer new to ADO.NET. The book is geared towards the C# developer using VS.NET so if that doesn't describe you then you will want to look elsewhere. If that does describe you then this is the book you want. The book starts with an introduction to C# which is probably good enough for someone familiar with Java or C++. This is followed by a brief introduction to ADO.NET and how to use VS.NET to build data driven applications. Chapter 5, the longest chapter in the book, is an excellent explanation of using ADO.NET disconnected classes and data providers. The author does an excellent job of explaining these critical topics. The book goes on to explain how XML documents fit into ADO.NET and follows this with a discussion of web applications, web services, and ADO events. The book contains a nice discussion of the ODBC data provider including how to install it into the VS.NET toolkit. This information is not easily found elsewhere. I especially like the author's style, which makes the book feel like a discussion with an enthusiastic co-worker rather than as a dry treatise. The book contains quite a few step-by-step, screen-by-screen examples of building applications. If you are (or plan to be) a C# developer and are new to ADO.NET you are unlikely to find a better book than this one for making this complex topic easily reachable.
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Summary: Tedium
Review: This book may be useful to someone who is a complete beginner to .NET and C#. However, I found it to be the most tedious programming book I have ever read. The author would list 3 pages of code, then change one line, and list the 3 pages again (with the one line difference)! Also, the author never tired of explaining in some depth (like 3 paragraphs) how the 3 different .NET providers had the same basic class taxonomy (but different implementations). After reading the same 3 paragraphs (more or less) for about the 10th time, I swore to myself that I would puke if I encountered those same 3 paragraphs one more time. Fortunately, I decided to pick up and read "ADO.NET Examples and Best Practices for C# Programmers" instead. I learned more in 50 pages there than I learned in 400 pages of this title.
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Summary: Tedium
Review: This book may be useful to someone who is a complete beginner to .NET and C#. However, I found it to be the most tedious programming book I have ever read. The author would list 3 pages of code, then change one line, and list the 3 pages again (with the one line difference)! Also, the author never tired of explaining in some depth (like 3 paragraphs) how the 3 different .NET providers had the same basic class taxonomy (but different implementations). After reading the same 3 paragraphs (more or less) for about the 10th time, I swore to myself that I would puke if I encountered those same 3 paragraphs one more time. Fortunately, I decided to pick up and read "ADO.NET Examples and Best Practices for C# Programmers" instead. I learned more in 50 pages there than I learned in 400 pages of this title.
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Summary: it's very good if you are not knowing anything about ADO.net
Review: This books help me a lot for developing an Application. Now i can make a form which can pull the data from the database, very easly. And Mahesh write the every details so clear,that i can writing Application with out any help.
Book cover the windows Application, which are really a good.
Book also contain very good images for studio.net.
I definitely like ODBC.NET chapter which covers MySQL and Oracler database connectivity.I found book useful in Solving my MySQL connectivety problems.
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Summary: Absolutely Amazing
Review: This is an excellent for both who are new to ADO.NET and for those that are making the transition from ADO to ADO.NET. The book covers all the important part of ADO.NET in detail to give the readers different concepts in approaching things. The parts of the book that really helped me out to understand and use ADO.NET are as follow with little description. Overview of ADO.NET - This gave me a short and sweet look at what ADO.NET is all about and why I should use it in my application and what are the advantages and disadvantages of ADO.NET over the old ADO. Working with XML - An excellent chapter that gave details about how to use XML and ADO.NET, it covered the important XML classes in detail and how XML can be beneficial in application to make things easier ASP.NET - This again made it short and sweet in a nutshell on how to get started in using ASP.NET using of course, ADO.NET Web Services - I had never even looked at web services before I read this chapter, now I can safely say I got a very good understanding on what they are all about and why we would use them as well as how to easily write web services with the chapter written in this book.
Different Flavors - Information in this section I will not use on daily basic but it never hurts to know what other things ADO.NET can do for those that want to explore different aspects of it. Handling Events - Another short and sweet chapter right on the money
ODBC.NET - This chapter is definitely recommended for those that are working with non Microsoft databases, even things like Microsoft Excel and Flat files. Excellent chapter as far as explaining how to work with Oracle, Sybase and MySQL.
Overall I definitely recommend this book for anyone writing database applications or simply those that want to know what they are getting themselves into as far as databases go. Most of the software I write involve database interaction so I will be using this book a lot to understand different aspects. Again, definitely recommended - 5 Stars *****
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Summary: Good Stuff
Review: Very well written. I like the author style of writing. Pretty easy to understand all conceopts of ADO.NET for a beginner like me. If you havn't written any programs in C# and Windows Forms, author shows you in first two chapters. Chater 5 covers detailed ADO.NET classes. Chapter 6 is great reference of XML and XML .NET classes and relationship between XML and ADO.NET. After that author shows how to write database Web applications and Web services. Author has explained complicated topics such as Web services in a simple way and it even doesn't look like I'm writing a Web service. I like Chapter 9, which covers details of ADO.NET Event handling. Chapter 10 and 11 are ODBC .NET data provider and Stored procedures and views and stuff.
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