Product Description

ADO.NET is Microsoft's latest data access technology and, as an integral part of the .NET Framework, is far more than simply an upgrade of previous incarnations of ADO. ADO.NET provides an extensive set of .NET classes that facilitate efficient access to data from a large variety of sources, enable sophisticated manipulation and sorting of data, and forms an important framework within which to implement inter-application communication and XML Web Services.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to using ADO.NET, with plenty of practical code examples, extensive technical information, and a detailed case study. Whether you are developing Web Applications using ASP.NET, Windows Forms applications, or XML Web Services, this book will show you how to utilize .NET's data access technology to maximum effect.

This book covers:

ADO.NET and the .NET Framework
Using the .NET Data Providers to create connections and execute commands
Using the DataSet to manipulate data
ADO.NET and XML
Using COM Interoperability
Performance and security issues

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1200622 in Books
• Published on: 2001-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 729 pages

From the Publisher
Whether you're already developing applications within the .NET Framework, or have experience of developing data driven applications with ADO and wish to make the transition to data centric applications within .NET, then this book is for you. It is aimed at fairly experienced developers, and is not intended for the casual ASP.NET developer or the beginner.

Wrox provides community and email support for all its titles. Discuss your ADO.NET problems with other readers on p2p.wrox.com. Get direct email support from support@wrox.com - support on this book is currently provided by one of its editors and the authors.

About the Author
Bipin Joshi is a software developer having skills in Microsoft technologies. Currently he works on .NET technologies with Mastek Ltd. He runs his personal web site at bipinjoshi.com that provides articles, tutorials and source code on variety of .NET topics. He can be reached via his web site - bipinjoshi.com.

Donny Mack, MCP, MCSD, Microsoft .NET MVP, is one of the co-founders of DotNetJunkies.com - an education company solely dedicated to ASP.NET and other web relegated .NET technologies. Prior to founding DotNetJunkies.com with Doug Seven, Mack worked at Microsoft Corporation as a Visual Interdev/ASP Support Professional.

Doug Seven is the co-creator of DotNetJunkies.com, a free online centralized resource Web site used by developers to learn more about the .NET Framework - specifically ASP.NET. Prior to that Seven worked as a Technical Lead in the Developer Support group at Microsoft.

Fabio Claudio Ferracchiati is a software developer and technical writer. He works in Rome for CPI Progetti Spa (cpiprogetti.it) where he develops Internet/Intranet solutions using Microsoft technologies.

Jan D. Narkiewicz is Chief Technical Officer at Software Pronto, Inc (jann@softwarepronto.com). In his spare time Jan is Academic Coordinator for the Windows curriculum at U.C. Berkeley Extension, teaches at U.C. Santa Cruz Extension and writes for ASP Today.

Starting as a commercial diver John McTainsh soon got back into coding, developing control systems for underwater robots in C and C++. Since then he has written many control systems and various other application and drivers. He currently works as a team leader developing public safety software for computer aided dispatch systems used by Police Fire and Ambulance vehicles.

Kevin Hoffman is a software technology junkie who has worked at everything from nationwide UNIX mainframe support to a Software Engineer for one of the most popular e-Commerce websites on the Internet. Recently he has found that he loves to write and teach about programming as much as he loves doing it himself.

Matt Milner works as a Technical Architect for BORN in Minneapolis where he designs and builds Microsoft solutions for clients in a variety of industries. Matt's primary focus has been using Windows DNA architecture and he is excited about the move to .NET and all the powerful new features.

Paul Dickinson graduated unspectacularly and spent several years cutting his software development teeth writing software to control mass spectrometers. His most recent resting place involves developing information management systems for laboratories.

Customer Reviews

A few things...
Many of the chapters in this book was really good, but a few things I didn't like :

* Not a word on concurrency!?!?!? I bought the book to get some thoughts on .Net concurrency strategies, but they completely avoided that subject.

* Did the authors of this book communicate at all during the writing of the book? A lot of things was brought up two or more times in different chapters. Propably the last time I buy a book where each chapter was written by a different author.

/Per Hultqvist

Not just the documentation
Although there's a lot in this book that you could find in the documentation if you looked long enough, there's also lots of new stuff that I haven't seen anywhere else.

Perhaps the reviewer who says it's just a rehash is talking about the ADO.NET Programmers Reference, which I've also got and it's really just a printed and commented summary of the documentation.

Unless you have loads of time to scour the documentation and endlessly experiment, this is a great way to learn ADO.NET.

good book if you can ...[edit] errors
Overall, this was a good read -- especially for existing programmers who are looking more at ADO.NET for things like architecture, usage, differences with ADO 2.x, etc... The book greatly simplified ADO.NET in my mind, and gave some great starting points in my own research.

My only problem with the book is that there are quite a few errors in the text that, in my opinion, the editors should have caught. For example, if you're new to OOP, you'll probably want to know the difference between overloading a method and overriding a function. This book on several occasions uses one term where another should have been used and vice-versa.

Overall, however, this is the best book on ADO that I've read so far...

_howard