Professional ADO 2.5 Rds Programming with ASP 3.0

This book made me a major fanboy for WROX and their book series. All of the content is well organized, the chapters and subjects lead into each other well and the code examples are wonderfully detailed and explained. Further the book has a great reference (for those of you who don't have your MSDN Searching Certification yet ;) in the back that takes up about 1/5th the entire size of the book.In the end you'll come away with a detailed knowledge of ADO with a book that will forever sit on your desk as a reference.

I've always been fascinated with the ADO/RDS series since it always give you so much more than just a reference. This obviously goes in less details for ADO than the Professional ADO 2.5 book but it will bring more than what most of us needs. It includes the complete reference with less explanation. What it does go into is the ADO objects (through Disconnected Recordsets), to Data Shaping.This book concludes with almost 300 pages of Appendix on Reference, Overviews, Object Models, and more. If you know what you are looking for in ADO & RDS (which is probably the case for a "Professional" book), you will find it's answer here.To my surprise, this book also includes 2 nice chapters about Oracle and it's usage with ADO. Most useful.

Every WROX book I have read lately(5) seems to be better than the previous. This book is not only an excellent reference on ADO, it gives an easy to read, highly understandable tour through just about all areas of Microsoft Development technology with an informative 2 chapter visit into Oracle. It amazes me how these authors can get such a handle on developing technology. Kudos to John Papa and the Wrox team.

Clear, concise, well documented code, excellent explanations. I usually find what I'm after within 5 minutes. I will read this one cover to cover after I finish Vieira's SQL Programming. My first 2 WROX books have been the best programming books I have read in my 30+ years as a professional programmer. (Take a look at the samples download!)

This is by far the most comprehensive and coherent coverage of ADO that I've found, and quite possibly the best technical book I've ever purchased. If you're looking for a thorough discussion on the pros and cons of the various ADO features and when to employ them, you'll want this book. If you're looking to get started in ADO programming and want to learn from the ground up without drowning in technobabble and without falling asleep, you'll want this book. If all you need is a technical reference to the complete ADO object model to replace the shallow references you'll find in other ADO books, you'll want this book.The text is well written, the code is explained clearly and concisely, and the book is structured in such a way that you don't have to flip from chapter to chapter trying to sort out material covered earlier in the book. In short, if you work with ADO in any way, you'll want this book