Beginning ASP.NET Databases Using VB.NET

By Fabio Claudio FerracchiatiJohn KauffmanBrian Matsik, et al.

Book Overview

What is this book about? For a web site to offer its users an experience that improves on that of newspapers or textbooks, it needs a way to change the information it contains dynamically - and that means it needs access to a data source. Through the combination of ASP.NET and ADO.NET, Microsoft provides everything necessary to access, read from, and write to a database, and then allow web users to view and manipulate that data from a web browser. In this book, we'll show you how it's done. What does this book cover? Packed with clear explanations and hands-on examples, Beginning ASP.NET Databases contains everything you'll need on your journey to becoming a confident, successful programmer of data-driven web sites. In particular, we'll look at: Connecting to common data sources, including SQL Server and MS Access Reading data with data reader and dataset objects Creating and deleting records, and editing data Displaying data with ASP.NET's web server controls Writing and using stored procedures from VB.NET code Placing your data access code in reusable class libraries The book closes with a real-world case study that consolidates the tutorials throughout the book into a practical result. Who is this book for? To use this book, you need a computer running either Windows 2000 or Windows XP Professional Edition. The examples it contains will not run on Windows XP Home Edition. This book is for people who have some experience of programming ASP.NET with Visual Basic .NET, are familiar with the operation of the .NET Framework, and want to learn how to use ASP.NET to make data-centric web applications. No prior knowledge of database programming is necessary.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076454375X
• ISBN13: 9780764543753
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Wrox Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Easy to follow

I have enough programming books that if weighed would weigh as much as a car.I love this book.The best part is that I can read it and follow the examples without having to sit at my computer.The key word in the title is beginning. I have found it to be a great foundation book on its subject matter.The authors should get an atta boy for this one.

Great for Beginers... Good reference

This was my first book on .NET and I think it was a great tool to help me learn the basics of database programming. After building on the basic concepts it goes on into deeper knowledge and real world examples. This book was the only resource I used to not only get started but to continue using as my desktop reference. The book has lots of examples and it's very detailed on the explanations. The authors have a clear and concise style that does not overwhelm the reader with extremely complex details. I recommend this book if you are a beginer on ASP.NET and I also think it serves as a good refenrece.

Superb

The book is superb. It is filled with WORKING examples. I am currently on page 121 and every example so far has worked flawlessly. The book has one "voice", even though it is written by several authors.The examples are standalone. Within the first several pages I was up and running with a straightforward, well-explained aspx file. I had absolutely no problems connecting to any of the databases. The book starts out with a couple primer chapters and then the connection object, and shows you how to connect to an Access database, and Excel spreadsheet, a SQL Server (MSDE) database and an XML file. From then on it primarily works with MSDE and the Northwind database.There are NO surprises here. Every example has obviously been combed through and there is a welcome amount of reinforcement.Just to reiterate, the examples are standalone. The is one of the absolute best aspects of a beginner's book.I cannot tell you how wonderful it is to be able to try out some code and on the first try get it to work. I would estimate that 75% of all computer books screw up that concept.I've been scouring bookstores for months looking for a good beginner's ASP.Net book, and have bought a couple of stinkers. Luckily, I happened to browse the bookstore and found this, scanned some of the very-well-written first couple of chapters actually thought there must have been some "catch" because it was so well written. So I decided to buy it and try it out, kind of planning to return it to the bookstore because of my past bad experience with asp.net books.The book quality is excellent. It is a smallish tech book (459 pages) and the paper is very light and easy to flip. Because of the "flimsiness" of the paper (a good attribute), it lays flat on my desk and I can read it without having to splay it open.It is small enough and light enough to carry around too.One minor point. To set up the connection object to the SQL Server database (p. 67, SQLServer_connection.aspx) make sure that the server ("server=(local)\NetSDK;..") is localized for your machine. On my machine I had to adjust it to "server=(local)\vsdotnet;..". Perhaps they covered this point earlier, and perhaps in my eagerness to try out the example I might have missed the adjustment, but this was my only stumbling point.

Good reference book for ASP.Net beginner

This is a great book which covers most of technique to write an ASP.Net web application using VB.Net for database access. All the examples are quite easy to follow and understand. I highly recommend to any person who wants to learn and build web application.

Comprehensive and professional beginners book

It is not until you read a book that is dedicated to using databases in ASP.NET that you realize just how much there is to learn. This is a very readable & well structured book with excellent `Try It Out' examples that provide easy to follow step-by-step guides.Obviously understanding data readers, datasets, command objects and web server controls is vital but there are some rare and extremely useful chapters: componentization - leveraging class libraries for data access, performance, and a chapter that discusses Data-Driven ASP.NET application in the Real World that raises some very interesting issues; for example security tips, raising your own database errors & organizing your code.The authors not only provide information that you would expect but they offer every encouragement to raise the bar by discussing ways to do things even better; for example `A Better Connection String', creating Data Access classes, and fine tuning dataset & datareaders.