Microsoft ADO.NET Step by Step [With CDROM]

by Rebecca M. Riordan

Teach yourself the fundamentals of ADO.NET 2.0--one step at a time. With this practical, learn-by-doing tutorial, you get the guidance you need to start creating data centric applications for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735612366
• ISBN13: 9780735612365
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.3" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

For people having trouble with the exercises

OK. I've been playing with the chapters and like many other readers, I ran into a LOT of trouble with the codes, and again, like many other readers, my solution files won't even run. But I realized that (after 5 chapters of frustration) if you copy the sample database file (which is needed by all the chapters in the database) to the default location, most, if not all, problems will go away, because the connection strings used in the sample codes are HARD CODED. So when I copied the sample database file to MyDocuments folder, the computer was searching under C:/ and of course it will crash immediately. For first-time ADO.NET users like myself, this supposed-to-be-obvious problem is actually pretty difficult to find.Once that problem gets squared away, the book is easy to follow.

Excellent book

With the help of this book I was able to get to know most of the .NET design environment. It also helped me to connect windows and web forms to databases. This book may not help you to master ADO.NET but is an excellent resource to begin with ADO.NET. I did not have problems with the examples (I used only C#) and most of the examples worked for me.

Excellent step by step tutorial.

I don't understand the negative reviews. I have this book and have worked through much of the code without any of the problems described in these reviews. Any "problem" (if you insist on calling it that) that I had even remotely similar to what I see described here turned out to be my own fault... nothing worthy of the bad reviews given here.By the way, did anyone who gave some of these poor reviews think about contacting Rebecca with questions? An author willing to provide assistance through email or news postings (like Rebecca does) deserves 5 stars. This book deserves 5 stars, her mastery of the topic deserves 5 stars, and her support of the book (and its students) deserves 10 stars.To anyone concerned about the poor reviews, don't be swayed. If you want a step by step tutorial on ADO.NET to learn from Rebecca and her book are a great educational resource... RECOMMENDED.

A fine start to learning the nuts and bolts of ADO.net

I found a sample chapter on data binding from this book on MSDN. Being new to the ADO.Net framework, it was just the explanation I needed. I bought it despite the negative reviews and although I haven't gone through it from cover to cover and tested all the code, so far all the samples have worked for me. I don't know what those other reviewers were complaining about but don't believe everything you read and don't let them dissuade you from buying a good beginner's resource.

Worth it for one example

I understand some folks are having problems with the examples, but honestly the one I needed (related to data relations and binding relations to dropDownLists) worked like a champ, and that example alone saved me tons of time. I had a problem with my own example using Datarelations and the author responed pretty quickly with an explanation of what the common problems might be. It did not in the end resolve my problem entirely, but it did show that this feature of ADO.NET worked and the problem in my code was really mine. This one working example was more than worth the price of admission for me.