Professional ADO.NET

I see that most of the complaints are about there not being any vb code. Granted, that is a reasonable complaint, but this book covered so much that other books haven't touched! I am amazed at how much I have learned from this book! I am finally excited about .NET instead of dazed and confused! Even if you know the general stuff, you need this book. I learned how to do things that I didn't know were even possible! This is the very first multi-author wrox book that I have given a good rating...you guys got this one right!

I liked it that each chapter is based around the most important parts of ADO.NET, so that I know exactly where to go to get the help I need. This makes it almost like a reference manual.It also has excellent coverage of XML with ADO.NET and XML Web Services. My copy is getting worn out.

Although there's a lot in this book that you could find in the documentation if you looked long enough, there's also lots of new stuff that I haven't seen anywhere else.Perhaps the reviewer who says it's just a rehash is talking about the ADO.NET Programmers Reference, which I've also got and it's really just a printed and commented summary of the documentation.Unless you have loads of time to scour the documentation and endlessly experiment, this is a great way to learn ADO.NET.

I found this book to be very helpful. I already know ADO found this book to present information that is very helpful so that I can make use of the new features like the DataSet in ADO.NET.Doug Seven's chapter's were especially helpful.

Let's face it, ADO.NET introduces some brand new concepts and design philosophies that even classic ADO experts are not familiar with. I found that this book provided me with a great ADO.NET foundation to build on. I have read many ASP.NET/WinForm development books and I am of the opinion that ASP.NET/WinForm developers will benefit from a book like this *before* diving into their ASP.NET or WinForm developement books.