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ADO.NET—the data-access component of the Microsoft .NET Framework—works with any component on any platform that understands XML. Get a solid handle on ADO.NET and learn how to exploit the database functionality of Microsoft Visual Basic® .NET and Microsoft Visual C#™ .NET with this step-by-step primer. You’ll be working in ADO.NET right away with easy-to-grasp examples drawn from the real-world challenges developers face every day. Learn about the ADO.NET object model and how to use it to develop data-bound Windows® Forms and Web Forms. See how ADO.NET interacts with XML and how to access older versions of ADO from the .NET environment. Throughout, you’ll find insightful tips and expert explanations for rapid acceleration of development productivity, faster applications, and more powerful results. Topics covered include:
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* Examples of real-world solutions developed with ADO.NET, including sample code in Visual Basic .NET and Visual C# .NET
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| Introduction | ||
| Pt. 1 | Getting Started with ADO.NET | 1 |
| Ch. 1 | Getting Started with ADO.NET | 3 |
| Pt. 2 | Data Providers | 21 |
| Ch. 2 | Creating Connections | 23 |
| Ch. 3 | Data Commands and the DataReader | 45 |
| Ch. 4 | The DataAdapter | 71 |
| Ch. 5 | Transaction Processing in ADO.NET | 109 |
| Pt. 3 | Manipulating Data | 129 |
| Ch. 6 | The DataSet | 131 |
| Ch. 7 | The DataTable | 161 |
| Ch. 8 | The DataView | 199 |
| Pt. 4 | Using the ADO.NET Objects | 219 |
| Ch. 9 | Editing and Updating Data | 221 |
| Ch. 10 | ADO.NET Data-Binding in Windows Forms | 257 |
| Ch. 11 | Using ADO.NET in Windows Forms | 289 |
| Ch. 12 | Data-Binding in Web Forms | 343 |
| Ch. 13 | Using ADO.NET in Web Forms | 367 |
| Pt. 5 | ADO.NET and XML | 407 |
| Ch. 14 | Using the XML Designer | 409 |
| Ch. 15 | Reading and Writing XML | 445 |
| Ch. 16 | Using ADO in the .NET Framework | 483 |
| About the Author | 506 | |
| Index | 507 |
Anonymous
Posted Fri May 06 00:00:00 EDT 2005
Garbage! garbage! trash! This book does not explain anything. It just shows the reader pictures then it gives you steps to do. Steps that tells you what to do but not why you're doing it. Some lessons left me more puzzled than I was before picking up this book. I followed some of the steps up to lesson 4 (I think), then I browsed the rest of the pages, hoping to see more, but it never happend. I still have the book but only because I lost the receipt.
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Posted Mon Dec 13 00:00:00 EST 2004
I returned it to the store. This book really sucked. None of the examples worked right. I never even got to chapter 4.
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Posted Sun Jul 04 00:00:00 EDT 2004
As Step by Step, all I found were many errors in the steps that were very frustrating. Even on completion, many examples just led to the creation of message boxes that left me pondering...What was this all about? My copy will be a permanent dust collector as it has no usefulness.
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Posted Sat Feb 07 00:00:00 EST 2004
Covers only the basics
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Posted Mon Mar 29 00:00:00 EST 2004
I wish I would have read the reviews before picking this book up. The book is hard to follow and unlike the title claims it does not have a step by step approach. The author often skips over details and I found myself having to jump back and forth between chapters.
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Posted Sat Nov 09 00:00:00 EST 2002
Like so many of the Step by Step books, this one fell flat on its face. While the core concept is a good one, the reader is disconnected from the process of programming in ADO.NET (type a line of code here, type a line of code there, but jeez, I don't know why I did that). As already noted, lots of errors in this book, especially the C# examples. Some are merely typographical, but I felt like I was the editor for this book. I, too, felt too frustrated to continue and finally quit after Chapter 8.
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Posted Sun May 26 00:00:00 EDT 2002
Not a good Step by Step book. Lots of code errors. Very hard to follow. Full of 'don't worry about this now, I'll cover it in a later chapter.' I've tried getting through this book three times. I got frustrated all three times about half way through the book. I decided to burn the book.
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Posted Fri Apr 19 00:00:00 EDT 2002
I like the approach this book uses, and its VB or C# paths and examples. However, it is apparent that nobody actually tried to program the C# steps before this book was published - because these steps are chock full of cut-paste errors, etc. (mostly for creating event handlers for the wrong buttons but one section has the same coding steps as a later section). Also, many of the examples throw exceptions due to the supplied database already having matching records (inserting matching primary key records). Currently - these errors are not covered by a Microsoft errata.
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Overview
ADO.NET—the data-access component of the Microsoft .NET Framework—works with any component on any platform that understands XML. Get a solid handle on ADO.NET and learn how to exploit the database functionality of Microsoft Visual Basic® .NET and Microsoft Visual C#™ .NET with this step-by-step primer. You’ll be working in ADO.NET right away with easy-to-grasp examples drawn from the real-world challenges developers face every day. Learn about the ADO.NET object model and how to use it to develop data-bound ...