ADO Programming in Visual Basic 6 [With]

by Steven Holzner

* High-performance database access techniques for every application * Detailed coverage of browser-based and multi-tier applications * Start-to-finish coverage of the ADO object model * The ADO... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130858579
• ISBN13: 9780130858573
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Great book

This book may be tough going if you are new to Visual Basic .NET but it's worth it weight in gold. You'll end up with a better understanding of connection strings, data providers, data adapters, datasets, dataviews, tables, writing and reading XML, and data binding. Anyone can drag and drop tables onto a form. This book teaches you how to write everything in code in addition to using the drag and drop method. I'm using the book as the textbook for the ADO.NET programming couse that I'm teaching. Very few mistakes and the sample code compiles without any problems.

Well Written Book

I've gone through only three chapters in this book, but it's already my favorite ADO.NET book. The authors write in an understandable, lucid manner and they don't dumb down the material. They also don't waste time rehashing ADO, DAO, and other (now) legacy technologies. The book is about ADO.NET only and it is obviously written by authors who are truly knowledgable about the material and know how to communicate that knowledge. This is a five star book all the way.

Good, clear explanations

This book really opened up the world of ADO programming for me. It was concise, but not simple. It really explained the benefits of using ADO. It was insightful, but not too complicated. Not for beginner programmers, though. The format took a little getting used to, but if you read it carefully, this won't be a problem. The CD has code samples, so that is a huge time saver - you wont have to copy the code by hand.

Very Good Book

It's nice to see a book focused on ADO programming. The book is most appropriate for more advanced programmers, though. I am a Sr. Programmer and I keep this book nearby for reference, as it contains excellent examples that give me all sorts of coding ideas. There are 2 topics I wish the author had spent more time on though: 1. the architecture of database connectivity, and 2. more on the use of pure code to connect to a database and manipulate recordsets (i.e. the book covers a lot on bound controls, but not as much time is spent on how to use ADO to build/use unbound controls). All said, it really is a good book. Just make sure you already have a good understanding of VB, and databases in general.

ADO Programming in Visual Basic 6

I'd been trying to learn ADO coming from FoxPro 2.6 (the old days). Nothing I'd read tied the topic together as well as this book did. I'd rate it as somewhere between a reference book and a beginner's learning edition. Some pages are taken up with code examples that can be found on the CD. All in all, however, this is the first book I turn to now when I need an answer regarding ADO.