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Programming Microsoft ADO.NET 2.0 Applications: Advanced Topics

Format: Paperback
Author: Glenn Johnson
ReleaseDate: 02 November, 2005
Publisher: Microsoft Press
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Not quite what I was expecting.
Net 2. This book does delve deep into the plumbing of ADO.0, but I must admit that when I read the "Advanced Topics" part of the title, I thought that it would actually cover more complicated versions of some scenarios that might be found in "beginners" ADO. Net books such as handling many-to-many data relationships with bound controls and possibly designing and building a data access layer. While data access layers were covered to some degree, the described methods involved intensive interaction with SQL Server system tables - something I don't tend to make a practice of.

The information in the book is good, just not what I was hoping to find.
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Great book, missing practical use.
net. Great book for ado. I wish this book has covered "how to use new features of ado. net with business layer. There should be some more chapter(s) for data acesss layer utilizing ado. net.

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Great Resource
NET 2. This is a nice concise book (for a programming book anyway) for ADO.0. The book delves deep into ADO. NET 2. 0 in a very clear manner. It answered many questions about how ADO. NET works that seem to have eluded me over the years. While the title is Advanced Topics, if you have developed with . NET 1. x this book will pose no problems for you. As a matter of fact I think this book will trump the Core Reference (due in July) of ADO. NET for experienced developers.

First the book dives right into ADO. NET Disconnected classes (the ones we use more Microsoft!) It gives a detailed discussion of the DataTable and DataSet, setting up relations, etc. Then it does the same for Connected ADO. NET classes. This is the general format of the book, discuss one then the same topics with the other. This makes it easier to see the differences in functionality between the disconnected and connected classes.

From there the book only gets better. It gives reasons and examples of working with ADO. NET. It goes over transactions, how to deal with concurrency, and some best practices. This book also includes a chapter on working with the new SQLCLR. It gives the pros and cons of SQLCLR and a good idea when to use it. The chapter on XML Data was of interest to me (probably because of a recent project where SQL Server 2005 and XML would have saved me a ton of heartache) and is a good read for anyone who may have a complex application that requires storage of xml data.

I highly reccomend this book for anyone working ADO. NET. A note that may also be of interest is the fact that the author tries to take advantage of SQL Server 2005 Express Edition where it can be used (which is a good majority). So if you don't have access to a full version of SQL Server 2005 this book does not exclude you.