ADO.NET Cookbook

The book explains the ADO.Net concept completely, with examples and also explains the advanced features that would other wise have been difficult to be brought in practice. While designing and developming an ASP.Net application, ADO.net plays vital role. This book is THE MUST for applications that need large database interactions. This book acts as the bible to the ADO.Net techniques. Great work. [...]

I have read this book completely. If you are looking to develop your skills in ADO.Net or not feeling confident about your noesis you must have read this book. Once you finished it gives a huges amount of confidence in you. It doesn't cover each and every aspect of ADO.Net but it explains the various essential concepts behind ADO.Net in a clear way by dividing it into topics and more importantly it doesn't miss anything and it is a must have book for reference.

This is the indepth example book I have seen for using ADO.NET for getting connected to databases. The examples in the book are just great and will give you a complete view of what goes on with database applications. Starting with the fundamentals of ADO.NET, walks through the basic principals of the new object model, and what you can do with the object model. I would recommend this book to everyone - ADO.NET is such a fundamentally different approach to data access from Microsoft, that we will have to learn again from scratch, and this is the book to get the foundations right. I have found this to be invaluable in getting up and running with ADO.NET.

After reading many general ASP.NET books I found I still had many unanswered questions regarding ADO.NET. The ADO.NET examples provided in the general books were very simple and by no means "real world". I ran into many road blocks, most of which could not be solved even after extensive research on the web and many ASP.NET forums. I finally purchased the ADO.NET Cookbook. This book is truely amazing and I have now read it cover to cover. The author uses a unique approach whereby real world problems are described and then solutions are presented and the details are discussed. This unique format makes it very easy to search for, and identify the answers to specific ADO.NET questions. The book covers advanced topics and all explanations are clear and concise - a definite must-have book for anyone who is serious about understanding ADO.NET.

The examples in this book provide concise solutions to a wide range of ADO.NET programming issues. I found the code clear, well documented, and easy to incorporate into my own work. The problems solved are more "real-world" and less trivial, and the corresponding solutions more complete, than those in any other ADO.NET book I've seen. Together with the clear discussions, this book is helpful not only for solving problems on the job, but also for in-depth learning about ADO.NET topics.One more thing that I really liked about this book. It has many examples that use namespaces outside of ADO.NET such as messaging, cryptography, serialization, XML manipulation, remoting, and Web services. This is helping me learn more about these topics (as well as ADO.NET) in this practical reference.