Beginning Visual Basic .Net Databases

The book is generally good for a beginning book. The problem is that you can no longer get the Sample Code as the publisher WROK has been sold and is no longer keeping the old sample code on their site.

This is a great book, but it is definitely helpful if you already have some VB.NET knowledge as suggested by the publisher prior to starting this book. I did not, and so some of the examples were hard for me to follow (no fault of the authors). I like the hands-on examples in this book. They are basic but relevant to the real-world. I got a lot out of this book despite my inexperience with VB.NET. It gives you a broad intro to several facets of .NET including web services which look very interesting! I think my experience with the book would have been excellent if I would have been more prepared. I have now back-tracked to fill in some of the basic knowledge I needed. I now believe I could forge ahead with some basic database projects in VB.NET using this book as a reference. I would certainly buy it again and I'm sure I'll use it as a reference for some time to come. Get some basic VB.NET knowledge and then buy this book for learning the database specifics.

This was one of the first books that I read about .Net that used the IDE for the examples.

The Authors are excellent writers and I like their approach to the material. It is very structured, logical and effective presentation. I also like this book because it didn't contain a lot of the useless filler Wrox books tend to have. As for linking to MS Access I think they provided sufficient explanation for us to know how to modify a connection string and use MS Access instead of MSDE. I was able to do both. Also, I was confused sometimes were code segments came from, but thats happened only when I tried to skim. If you read code snippets in context you know exactly where code should go.

Background ...Prior to reading this book I read Beginning Visual Basic.NET, Professional VB.NET, Visual Basic and the .NET Platform, Programming VB.NET, and Moving to VB.NET.If you are considering the Wrox series of VB.NET and ADO.NET books, I recommend reading the books in this order: Beginning Visual Basic .NET, Visual Basic .NET Databases, Professional VB.NET, and Professional ADO.NET.Review ...This is one of the best written programming books I've read. The authors did a great job in organizing the concepts and sample VB projects so that they built upon one another in a logical manner. The book focused on how to apply concepts rather than rehashing MSDN online documentation. I liked the approach of "here's a concept", "let's write some code", and "here's how the code worked". The diagrams were very effective in showing visually how things work. The authors have a good understanding of the types of problems developers run into when storing and retrieving data for their first windows forms or web forms applications. They are also very effective writers.