Beginning SQL Server 2005 Express Database Applications with Visual Basic Express and Visual Web Developer Express: From Novice to Professional

By Rick Dobson

This book provides all of the installation, configuration, administration and development techniques that you need to build these types of application quickly and effectively. It focuses on solution techniques that are easy to learn, fast to implement, and transparent in the ways they address real-world problems. It covers:

SQL Server Express tools and techniques, including use of Express Manager, and T-SQL programming.

Using Visual Basic Express with SSE to build Windows Forms applications.

Using Visual Web Developer with SSE for rapid but effective development of ASP.NET Web applications.

The book includes two full example case studies showing how to build a paypal-based eCommerce site and a Church administration application.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590595238
• ISBN13: 9781590595237
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Well Crafted, Easy to Follow, In-Depth Insight

Nowadays, it is all too common for someone with a competing interest to dis a book in the hopes of steering others away. After reading several of the negative reviews for this book, I was worried that might be happening here. When I checked out this book in a bookstore and compared it with four others on SQL Express 2005, I found this one to be a superior presentation of the subject. It is cogent and will written, and...

Nice Intro Book To SQL Server 2005

'Beginning SQL Server 2005 Express Database Applications with Visual Basic Express and Visual Web Developer Express: From Novice to Professional' by Rick Dobson is a very nice learning tool for beginners who want to learn how to use SQL Server 2005 Express and Visual Basic Express to create database/client apps that will get the job done and done well. With ~600 page of material, the author leads you through the basics of...

Review from a beginner's point of view

I have just a little experience in access 2000 so the thought of moving to SQL databases was scary. Rick Dobson did a great job of taking the fear out of SQL with his book Beginning SQL Server 2005 Express. He takes you step by step through the process of working with SQL Server 2005 Express. The lessons are paced for the beginners and the code examples work, that in it self is something new. He starts you at the beginners...

complete coverage for beginner to intermediate programming in SQL and VB book

I have been through the loops on trying to learng SQL express. This book does an awesome job of taking you from start to solid ground in SQL Express. I have not found any other source that does such a complete job for learning SQL Express and integrating with VB express and Web developer express. Definite a keeper and highly recommended. Authors also does a three day seminar that will jumpstart your progress considerably.

A Wealth of Knowledge

If I have any complaint about this book, it is for the publisher, not the author. I would have appreciated a better visual layout. The material is dense--the pages shouldn't be. But the information within the book is very useful, both for SQL Server express 2005 and for Visual Basic Express 2005 as well. Mr. Dobson clearly knows and loves his topic.