Professional ADO 2.5 Programm Ing

This book is not a beginners baby book, this is a programmers to programmers book, so you want to learn ADO with this dont waste your money. The book explains pretty well all concepts with real code and real situations. (OLAP,XML) etc. ; if you are programming Visual Basic Database applications this is a must have as your personal reference. The book is very clear explaining all the advanced techniques and the source code logic is A++++++, not like other authors that have a logic that they are the only ones that can understand it.

This is an excellent resource to get a handle on using ADO in both simple and complex situations. Although it may glance over a few specialized areas, it is overall a must have for the ADO programmer.

I found this book to be an excellent, in-depth guide to ADO/RDS. While I have other titles that touch upon ADO, this book provides me with truly comprehensive information. I highly recommend it for anyone looking for in-depth coverage of ADO/RDS.

This is a very good book, very easy to understand and plenty of examples. It is a good guild book provides all the detailed information you need to master ADO 2.5.

This book covers ADO 2.5 pretty well, but I feel a smaller volume similar to "ADO 2.0 Programmer's Reference" is more useful. In my work most of the time what I need is to look up ADO connection string syntax, or methods and properties of the Recordset object, or names of ADO constants, and that's when a pocket-sized reference book comes in handy. Granted that ADO is a big topic, but WROX has so many other books (for example Professional ADO 2.5 RDS Programming with ASP 3.0 and Professional Active Server Pages 3.0) that cover the exact same topics as this book, and it is difficult to avoid repetition among books, when you have another full volume on ADO. For example, the chapters on XML, Data Shaping, RDS, ADSI, and Exchange Server have all been covered in other recent books by WROX with greater details and better examples. Therefore, I find the Appendices are actually the most useful part of the book to me.Bottom line: I cannot throw away my "ADO 2.0 Programmer's Reference", even after I got this book, and to the editors at WROX: bring back my Programmer's Reference!