Programming Microsoft ADO.NET 2.0 Applications: Advanced Topics

This is a nice concise book (for a programming book anyway) for ADO.NET 2.0. The book delves deep into ADO.NET 2.0 in a very clear manner. It answered many questions about how ADO.NET works that seem to have eluded me over the years. While the title is Advanced Topics, if you have developed with .NET 1.x this book will pose no problems for you. As a matter of fact I think this book will trump the Core Reference (due in July) of ADO.NET for experienced developers. First the book dives right into ADO.NET Disconnected classes (the ones we use more Microsoft!) It gives a detailed discussion of the DataTable and DataSet, setting up relations, etc. Then it does the same for Connected ADO.NET classes. This is the general format of the book, discuss one then the same topics with the other. This makes it easier to see the differences in functionality between the disconnected and connected classes. From there the book only gets better. It gives reasons and examples of working with ADO.NET. It goes over transactions, how to deal with concurrency, and some best practices. This book also includes a chapter on working with the new SQLCLR. It gives the pros and cons of SQLCLR and a good idea when to use it. The chapter on XML Data was of interest to me (probably because of a recent project where SQL Server 2005 and XML would have saved me a ton of heartache) and is a good read for anyone who may have a complex application that requires storage of xml data. I highly reccomend this book for anyone working ADO.NET. A note that may also be of interest is the fact that the author tries to take advantage of SQL Server 2005 Express Edition where it can be used (which is a good majority). So if you don't have access to a full version of SQL Server 2005 this book does not exclude you.

This is excellent book, Author have amazing writing style, very well organized , examples are very good to show what he is talking about, Really Professional, I will look forward to any new books for Mr. Glenn in the future. On .NET

I just got this book, and I haven't been able to put it down. I have a little experience with ADO.NET in VS2003, but I wanted to quickly get up to speed with ADO.NET 2.0 in VS2005. The first thing that I found was that the examples were done in both VB.NET and C# so there is no need to think about converting between languages. Next, I found that the first chapters provide a good overview of the ADO.NET objects, so you can can familiar with the object rather quickly. After that, the chapters focus on specific topics, (mostly new ADO.NET 2.0 topics) going into detail and giving specific implementation examples. I like this author's style, obviously this author is also an instructor. I hope to see more books from this author!

I finally found an ADO.NET book that gave an example of how to perform conflict resolution that is useable. This book quickly cover the objects in ADO.NET, but then goes much further by applying covering topics that are new in ADO.NET 2.0 as well as topics that not new to ADO.NET 2.0, but are never covered in other books. Pablo Castro wrote the forward for this book, and I agree with everything that he said about this book.