Data-Centric.Net Programming with C#

by Jacob Hammer Pedersen, Kent Tegels, Neil Whitlow

The development of the .NET Framework, with the associated release of the C# programming language, is set to stimulate a new wave of application development. This book aims to provide the information... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 186100592X
• ISBN13: 9781861005922
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Wrox Press
• Length: 1000 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Definitely Recommended!!!

Data-Centric .NET Programming with C#.This book is about using .NET technologies to work with data, since data can reside in different forms at different places, this book focuses on :1. Databases.2. XML / XSL.3. Directory Services.4. Messaging Services.5. Files.6. Legacy Systems.Spends 4 chapters on "Databases", 2 on "XML/XSL", 1 on "Directory Services", 1 on "Messaging Services" and 1 on "Files/Registry". Rest of the book contains a chapter on "Web Services" and 3 very useful case studies.Now just in case if you are an ASP.NET developer and are wondering if there is something in it for me, the answer is "yes and no". I said "yes" because you'll learn how to work with different forms of data and I said "no" because you won't learn anything specifically related to ASP.NET in it. All the code examples that are given only marginally touch ASP.NET ( and that also mainly "Web Services" ), they mostly make use of GUI clients and programs to do all the processing. This is one important thing you should keep in mind, if you haven't developed any GUI client applications ( like me ), there is going to be lot of new stuff for you. Now this is not something bad, as after reading this I not only learned how to work with data but also "how to build GUI clients using C#". Having said that if you know a bit of ASP.NET, you can change the applications from GUI front-ends to ASP.NET pages with little effort.The topics that this book covers are pretty huge and would take separate books to be discussed thoroughly. But I think that the Wrox team has done an excellent job by covering them in a single book.The chapters on ADO.NET cover topics like `what is ADO?', `how does ADO compare to ADO.NET?', `OleDb and SqlClient Namespaces', `DataSet, DataReader and DataAdapter classes', `Connected and Disconnected Data', `ADO.NET and XML', `Using Visual Studio to build Windows Forms', `Displaying, Editing, Inserting and Deleting Data', `Connection Pooling', `Integration with COM+', `Object Pooling', `Distributed Transaction Processing' and `Serviced Components in .NET'.The chapters on XML/XSL cover topics like `Using MSXML', `System.XML Namespace', `Reading and Writing XML files', `Creating Windows Forms to Display and Edit XML Data', `Validating XML', `XML and ADO.NET', `Schemas', `XPath and XSLT' and `Navigating and Transforming XML'.The chapter on Directory Services includes topics like `What is Directory Service?', `What can Directory Services be used for?', `System.DirectoryServices Namespace', `Accessing Directory Services', `Windows Client Application', `Accessing the Active Directory', `Using ADSI', `Searching', `Publishing Services', `Deleting the Service', `Registering the Service' and `Searching the Service'.The chapter on Messaging Services includes topics like `What are Messaging Services?', `Where to use Messaging Services?', `Message Queuing Features', `Message Queuing Architecture', `Message Queuing Administrative Tools', `Programming Message Queuing', `System

Excellent.

As the title implies a large portion of the book deals with data access. However, the book also covers a wide range of other topics of interest to budding C# developers (e.g. messaging/directory/web services). The code in the book is as usefull to VB.net developers as it is to C# developers (assuming you can translate C# into VB.Net). Highly recommended.

Wrox does it again - A+

I was a technical reviewer on this title and find it to be one of the books I keep going back to. It has a good spectrum of coverage and is really for those applying C# and .Net to a real world situation. It is not going to teach you syntax for C# but will show you how to use the .Net framework for Data intensive apps using technologies such as XML, Active Directory, How to migrate existing apps over to .Net to mention a few topics.