COBOL and Visual Basic on .NET: A Guide for the Reformed Mainframe Programmer

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The Mainframe Programmer's Guide to .NET is designed to be a guide covering the entire .NET platform. In order to cover as wide of a scope as this book does, low-level reference type detail is conservatively included. Richardson's book carefully covers every aspect .NET. Starting with a complete list of .NET Retraining Prerequisites and a full chapter answering the question "What is .NET", the author skillfully takes the reader through the .NET Framework, Database Access, Windows, Web, and Web Services topics. Additional topics range from Printing with Crystal Reports, using XML, and HTML to advanced .NET topics like .NET Configuration and Security for Web Services. The Mainframe Programmer's Guide to .NET is certainly a complete guide for the Mainframe programmer. Each chapter provides valuable references for continued learning. Having been given a context, the informed reader is then encouraged to take advantage of the references for continued in-depth training.

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COBOL and Visual Basic on .NET: A Guide for the Reformed Mainframe Programmer is a comprehensive guide to help mainframe programmers successfully complete a .NET retraining effort. This book targets the COBOL/CICS Mainframe community comprised of programmers seeking a complete transition off of the Mainframe to .NET, or for those who simply wish to broaden their knowledge with .NET.

Starting with a complete list of .NET retraining prerequisites and a full chapter answering the question “What is .NET?”, Richardson skillfully takes the reader through topics such as the .NET Framework, database access, Windows, Web, and Web services. He touches on additional topics such as printing with Crystal Reports, using XML, HTML, .NET configuration, and security for Web services.

Richardson also includes information to help the Mainframe programmer with infrastructure set-up issues faced when deploying modules using Internet Information Server and COM+. The reader is provided the chance to learn both COBOL.NET and Visual Basic .NET by working with code samples that are provided in the book.

Mainframe programmers reading this book will immediately feel comfortably challenged. While drawing upon many legacy mainframe analogies, Richardson's conversational writing style makes this book both informative and an enjoyable read. COBOL and Visual Basic on .NET: A Guide for the Reformed Mainframe Programmer is certainly a complete .NET guide for the Mainframe programmer.

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Great for Reference too.......2004-07-14

I bought "COBOL and Visual Basic on .NET" in order to learn VB.NET, but ended up receiving formal training through my employer before completing this 1,000 page book. Nevertheless, I constantly find myself referring to various chapters whenever my old COBOL brain has trouble understanding .NET and object oriented concepts.
Mr. Richardson's clear writing (despite his well-intentioned attempts at humor) and numerous examples make me very glad that I made the purchase. As long as COBOL and .NET exist, this book is a must-have for programmers like me. Speaking of existence, I bet that COBOL will be with us long after Mr. Gates pulls the plug on .NET.
If you are or have been a mainframe programmer and whether or not you know anything about .NET, you will be hard pressed to find a book as useful as this or one that is so well written.

Finally...a Bridge!.......2003-10-29

Someone finally built a bridge to help mainframe programmers understand Windows and the Windows programming arena. While this book targets the mainframe COBOL programmer, it is none-the-less and good reference for those of us who have worked in the Windows arena, specifically .NET.

Chris dove into the .NET Framework with the understanding that after having rad his book you would have a good general understanding of .NET, not an indepth, "let's drown'em with a firehose" manual. Chris provided me with enough information to enable me to learn about the Framework, COBOL and areas where additional information could be found. If I wanted to read further I knew where to look. Chris's style was witty, funny and kept me entertained while I learned.

The .NET Framework is a huge undertaking in programming. With over 5,000 namespaces Chris covered the essentials to getting going in the Framework, giving the reader enough knowledge to reduce his/her search times and find the information in the Microsoft help files they may need.

A good read for anyone starting out in the .NET COBOL environment.

perfect as an intro to .NET for the mainframe programmer.......2003-10-24

Comparing / contrasting JES to the CLR, then Object Oriented to JCL...I love that! And it's so perfect and makes so much sense. This book is perfect as an introduction to the world of .NET for the Mainframe programmer.

I have written in a few books and hundreds of magazine articles, but I have always maintained I'm just a technology guy who writes. Clearly, Chris Richardson is a real writer. And his editor(s) have done a wonderful job. This book is written like a novel. Most technology books are written mostly as reference. This book makes for a very interesting read...especially for those of us with a mainframe background. After reading this book, the COBOL programmer has obtained enough foundation in .NET, related back to the world he/she is comfortable in (mainframes), to take the next step and dive into more generic .NET titles and some real .NET application programming.

For years my problem has been figuring out how to convert the fantastic amount of talent on the mainframe side of the world to the current technology set so that I can hire them. As everyone knows, this is a brutally tough transition and the learning curve is almost insurmountable. Well, this book is a must for the mainframe programmer who wants to learn application development in .NET and very entertaining for us old guys who love to look back at the way it was.

Cobol and VB on .NET - tough to read.......2003-08-24

I really tried hard to get somthing out of this book. The author just wont sit still long enough to get to the point (show me how this works)... darting from one thought to another without finishing the original thought (except to say 'This is beyond the scope...', then offer some random comments completely off the mark). The book is comprehensive (about 1000 pages and 7-8 pounds), but not clearly written. I am sure the author knows what he is talking about, he just does not know how to include the reader into the process (except to refer to a hundred different places for 'clarification'). Maybe next time (if he bothers), he will write a much shorter book on the subject, keep his flittering comments and comical bursts to himself and concentrate on giving the reader something of value for the time and money invested in trying to learn something from this book. A big disappointment.

Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the .NET Framework Class Library

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Its a good read
Enhanced with call-outs and highlighted sections
Valuable addition to MSDN & .Net framework SDK
An excellent resource for writing code
A Focused Look at the Namespaces

Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the .NET Framework Class Library
Mike Snell , and Lars Powers
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Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 (Mastering)

ASIN: 0672322323

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Each chapter provides a brief introduction to the selected technology, followed by detailed suggestions, reference material, and a sample application that illustrates common programming tasks using the classes, interfaces, delegates, and events of a specific .NET namespace. This book answers the primary questions that VB .NET developers will face as they start developing code in the .NET environment, including: What does the .NET class library provide me in terms of re-usable code? Are there .NET structures available that I can use to accomplish a specific task? How do I go about interfacing with the .NET framework through my code?

Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the .NET Framework Class Library is acomprehensive guide as you learn how to use the .NET Framework classes, then it will become a trusted reference as your experience and needs grow in the world of .NET.

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Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the .NET Framework Class Library is the definitive guide every Visual Basic .NET developer needs to understand the capabilities of .NET namespaces and increase productivity inside the .NET framework. Lars Powers and Mike Snell have provided a comprehensive book that details the capabilities of the key namespaces, and then explains how to leverage them by extension or reference to create applications ranging from simple to complex. Each chapter provides a brief introduction to the selected technology, followed by detailed suggestions, reference material, and a sample application that illustrates common programming tasks using the classes, interfaces, delegates, and events of a specific .NET namespace. This book answers the primary questions that VB .NET developers will face as they start developing code in the .NET environment, including: What does the .NET class library provide me in terms of re-usable code? Are there .NET structures available that I can use to accomplish a specific task? How do I go about interfacing with the .NET framework through my code? Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the .NET Framework Class Library is a comprehensive guide as you learn how to use the .NET Framework classes, then it will become a trusted reference as your experience and needs grow in the world of .NET.

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Its a good read.......2004-04-18

BUt why do VB when c# is just as easy and you can write unmanaged within it. Its just a no brainer with all the limitations of VB still.

Enhanced with call-outs and highlighted sections.......2002-10-08

Visual Basic experts Lars Powers and Mike Snell effective collaborate in the Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the .NET Framework Class Library to instruct intermediat to advanced level users on a full range of issues including: delineating and define the pieces of .NET; explaining how/why .NET was conceived and what this means to VB6/Windows DNA developers; how to execute Windows programming using the .NET namespaces; position the .NET namespaces within the context of the reader's project; how to make architecture decisions when using .NET namespaces; as well as details about the construction of Web Services and how they programmatically communicate with each other. Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the .NET Framework Class Library is enhanced further with call-outs and highlighted sections will illustrate concepts by relating previous VB6/Windows DNA best practices with the new .NET approach. 1152 pages. User Level: Intermediate-Advanced. Highly Recommended.

Valuable addition to MSDN & .Net framework SDK.......2002-08-08

The challenge for a reference book like this is to be better the documentation that Microsoft provide - MSDN and the .Net framework SDK. My experience is that this book certainly achieves that.

For example, today I needed to show the "save file" dialog and then write the contents of a text box to a text file. I know how to do that in VB6, but I hadn't done it in VB.Net before. I searched MSDN which gave me accurate descriptions of the menthods and properties of at least four classes for writing data to files, but I still had no idea which one(s) I needed to use.

I am sure the sample code I needed is somewhere in MSDN, but I hadn't found it after 20 minutes searching when I gave up and referred to this book. In five minutes I had found what I was after, my code worked and I was able to get on with my next task. That is what this book is for. If you want to learn about the new programming features in VB.Net (like polymorphism, delegates etc) this is not your book. But if you want help getting your .Net program to talk to anything (files, printers, active directory, browsers, TCP/IP Sockets, XML/XSLT or whatever) This book will be a valuable resource.

Just note that while this book covers ASP.Net and ADO.Net, if you work with these a lot you might want more depth than is provided here. I will be considering the Wrox "ASP.Net Namespace Reference" when it is released.

An excellent resource for writing code.......2002-05-28

Because of a project, I needed to finally make the jump from VB6 to VB.NET. After reviewig several books, I grabbed the book by Powers and Snell. It helped tremendously on the key pieces of my project. What I really like are the numerous code examples - worth the price of the book alone! I even contacted the authors to get their thoughts on something and ask a few questions. Not only did they reply with great answers, but their indepth knowledge of .NET helped finalize an important part of my project architecture. Looking forward to more titles by Powers and Snell. Thanks again guys!

A Focused Look at the Namespaces.......2002-03-05

I found this book to be a handy 2nd book to have on .NET programming... it doesn't have much content to help you make the transition to .NET (I'd have to recommend Gary Cornell's Programming VB .NET: A Guide for Experienced Programmers for that task), but it does do a great job of helping you find the right class libraries and write code with them once you are up and running with your language of choice.

Each chapter is focused on a namespace. The authors then spend a few pages bringing people up to speed on the spotlight technology (I am new to XML and particularly liked the intro to XML piece). Then they dive right into the details of using the .NET classes to achieve your desired end-result. The class library that ships with .NET is huge, and I found it helpful to use this book as a guide to highlight the classes I should worry about to get 80-90% of my programming work done.

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It made my site a very popular, creative one........1999-06-08

It is awesom

Covers all the parts of a web site, not just HTML, etc........1998-07-30

This is a very good book if you want to know about all the pieces of a web site -- how the server works, how the http protocol works, what a request and a response look like, and how clients work as well as the usual HTML and CGI information that's covered in other books. It's a couple years old and doesn't, for example, cover cookies. It's nonetheless very worth buying if your library doesn't include a real end-to-end treatment of how the web works.

Pro T-SQL 2005 Programmer's Guide (Expert's Voice)

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A book for every developer working with T-SQL - Review of Database Administrator SQLAuthority.com
Essential Tool for SQL Developers and Administators
An excellent T-SQL guide...
Indispensable book for T-SQL Programmers
a great book!

Pro T-SQL 2005 Programmer's Guide (Expert's Voice)
Michael Coles
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ASIN: 159059794X

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Pro T-SQL 2005 Programmer's Guide provides comprehensive and detailed coverage of all the major features and facilities of T-SQL for SQL Server 2005. It is designed for all users of T-SQL, database administrators, systems administrators, application developers, and end-users, who want to learn how to exploit the power of T-SQL. Whatever you need to do with T-SQL, you'll find it described clearly here.

Stored procedures, triggers, and user-defined functions are only part of the story. Dynamic SQL, the new XML data type, and SQLCLR programming are also covered, as well as accessing SQL Server with ADO.NET. Exception handling and performance are fully covered, too. This book is truly a complete programmer's guide to T-SQL and SQL Server 2005.

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A book for every developer working with T-SQL - Review of Database Administrator SQLAuthority.com.......2007-09-14

Short Summary:
Pro T-SQL 2005 Programmer's Guide book examines SQL Server 2005 T-SQL from a developer's perspective. It covers a wide range of developer-specific topics in SQL Server 2005. This book covers many newly introduced topics in depth. This book is written as a practical and useful guide to help database developers who mainly deals with T-SQL. This book is really hit the spot with appropriate .NET code at few places where needed. This book assumes a basic knowledge of SQL but it is really easy for new beginners developers to understand and advanced developers to enjoy further reading.

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One thing I really liked about this book is that it can be either read cover to cover, or it can be used as a reference guide for one particular topic. Index of this book is extremely well organized and aids to find the right topic very quickly. Books is structure is many chapters and each chapter justifies the chapters with good details and proper amount of examples.

Each chapter has excellent advice and knowledge and filled with sample code (available online). The book is targeted specifically at SQL Server 2005 and the innovative ways to code T-SQL, new functions and commands. If is very easy to get started with this book and it immerses in comprehensive reading in no time. This book addresses many details and comparisons with T-SQL in very organized way. The examples are in very accurate and useful as well sufficient to targeted topics. This book addresses many of the real world issues with examples, discussions and solutions.

This book start with providing a brief history of T-SQL and the ANSI SQL standards. SQLCMD and SQL Server Management Studio are new tools to explore SQL Server 2005 and are covered in depth in beginning of the book. Chapters which covers Common Table Expressions (CTEs), new datatypes, operators, keywords, functions, and control of flows are really interesting and with necessary explanation. Readers of my blog are very well aware of my interests in Error handling and debugging. Interesting enough for me there is one whole chapter dedicated to that. The regular T-SQL concepts which I write a lot about Stored Procedure, Triggers and Dynamic SQL each have their own chapter. One thing many T-SQL book does not cover in depth is XML, XQuery and XPath which are properly discussed and their importance is explained properly. Last three chapter of the book which covers SQLCLR, .NET Client Programming and HTTP Endpoints requires the Microsoft .NET FrameWork 2.0, as it contains some code which are written in VB and C#.

One thing which I always liked in any database book is, use of sample database AdventureWorks. I strongly believe that all the example should be independent from previous examples and should use default database. If you have not installed default database AdventureWorks, you can get its latest location by searching in my blog SQLAuthority.com. All the script of examples are available to download online. No book is free from the errors and website for this book have errata list, which is surprisingly very small.

I will list few tips from book which interested me. This will give brief idea how good this book is.

"TABLESAMPLE always returns an approximate number of rows because of the way it samples data. The required percentage is the number of data pages SQL Server retreves in full to fulfill your TABLESAMPLE request. The number of rows returned by TABLESAMPLE will often be slightly less, or greater, than the specified amount."

"Anytime you use dynamic SQL, make sure that you take precautions against SQL injection, that is, malicious SQL Code being inserted into your SQL statements. In this instance we're using the QUOTENAME function to quote the column names being dynamically generated to help avoid SQL injection problems."

Following one example really caught my eyes while reading the book. It seems Author accurately described the situation and put his suggestion regarding syntax.
"The ANSI SQL:2003 standard includes a MERGE statement that performs the same function as the upsert type of SP. The prerelease versions of SQL Server 2005 included the MERGE statement. Though it was well-publicized during the prerelease period, the MERGE statement was unceremoniously dropped from the production version. We can only hope that Microsoft brings it back sometime in the near future."
Good news is Microsoft have included the Authors request in future version of SQL Server. SQL Server 2008 CTP 4 has included MERGE Keyword.

Rating: 4 and 1/2 stars

In Summary, A book for every developer who want to take full advantage of the power of T-SQL on SQL Server 2005.

Pinal Dave
Principal Database Administrator
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Essential Tool for SQL Developers and Administators.......2007-06-24

Pro T SQL Programmers Guide is an excellent resource to jump start your SQL Server 2005 development efforts. Michael Coles presents clear, concise examples that will guide the reader from T-SQL fundamentals to the use of the new xml data type,http endpoints, sqlclr programming, encryption and more. A clear read with great practical examples.

I would highly recommend this book as a reference and guide book for t-sql developers, dba's and development professionals

An excellent T-SQL guide..........2007-06-20

This book is is easy to read and does an excellent job of introducing the new features and tools in T-SQL 2005. The book covers all the new features of SQL 2005 very well and I was especially impressed with the section on encryption.

Indispensable book for T-SQL Programmers.......2007-06-15

This book is well written with clear examples and excellent coverage of T-SQL. Great to read cover to cover but also very useful as a reference source. I highly recommend it.

a great book!.......2007-06-11

I really enjoyed this book. It presents the essential new features of SQL 2005 in a well written easy to read manner. If you are a SQL Developer and want to get up to speed quickly on SQL Server 2005 this is the book for you.

The chapter on encryption is excellent and worth the price of the book by itself.

Programming VB .NET: A Guide for Experienced Programmers

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Will help you make the transition from VB6 to VB.NET
Good for the Beta but a little long in some chapters
Well written and hard to put down
Misleading title
A wonderful book, clear and to the point

Programming VB .NET: A Guide for Experienced Programmers
Gary Cornell , and Jonathan Morrison
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ASIN: 1893115992

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This is the book that you want to read if you have knocked around VB 6 for a couple of years and you've decided to move up to .NET. ... For the target audience, technical books don't get much better than this.

— Dan Mabbutt, Visual Basic Guide on About.com

In Programming VB .NET: A Guide for Experienced Programmers, authors Gary Cornell and Jonathan Morrison carefully explain the exciting new features of Visual Basic .NET. Since VB .NET is, for all practical purposes, a whole new language even for the most experienced Visual Basic programmers, developers need to think differently about many familiar topics. Cornell and Morrison are there to help you with careful discussions of each topic.

All experienced programmers wishing to take advantage of the amazing new powers of VB .NET will benefit from this book's careful treatment of fundamental topics, including inheritance, interfaces, and exception handling, as well as all the powerful new features, such as stream-based I/O and true multithreading.

Cornell and Morrison write from the point of view of the experienced programmer, with constant references to the changes from earlier versions of VB. Developers learn how to use VB .NET for database programming through ADO.NET and web programming through ASP.NET. After reading Programming VB .NET: A Guide for Experienced Programmers, developers will have a firm grasp of the exciting new VB .NET language and its uses in creating powerful .NET applications.

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In Programming VB .NET: A Guide for Experienced Programmers, Gary Cornell and Jonathan Morrison carefully explain the exciting new features of Visual Basic .NET. Since VB .NET is, for all practical purposes, a whole new language even for the most experienced Visual Basic programmers, developers need to think differently about many familiar topics. Cornell and Morrison are there to help you with careful discussions of each topic.

All experienced programmers wishing to take advantage of the amazing new powers of VB .NET will benefit from their careful treatment of fundamental topics including inheritance, interfaces, and exception handling, as well as all the powerful new features such as stream-based I/O and true multithreading.

Cornell and Morrison write from the point of view of the experienced programmer, with constant references to the changes from earlier versions of VB. Developers learn how to use VB .NET for database programming through ADO.NET and Web programming through ASP.NET. After reading Programming VB .NET: A Guide for Experienced Programmers, developers will have a firm grasp of the exciting new VB .NET language and its uses in creating powerful .NET applications.

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Will help you make the transition from VB6 to VB.NET.......2002-10-17

The book is primarily designed for experienced Visual Basic developers making the transition to VB.NET. However, it can also be appreciated by other experienced programmers regardless of their programming background.

The book begins with an introduction to the differences between VB.NET and VB. The next chapter introduces you to the new Visual Studio .NET integrated development environment (IDE). You will get a tour of the main windows, and learn how to compile and debug your VB.NET applications. Chapter three teaches the VB.NET syntax. You will learn the VB.NET expressions, operators, and program control flow. The next couple of chapters form the core of the book. These chapters cover object oriented programming and inheritance. VB.NET is the first truly object oriented programming version of VB, and a solid understanding of these new features is essential in taking full advantage of VB.NET's new powers.

The next few chapters go on the cover important topics such as, event handling, error handling, building user interfaces, input/output streams, and multithreading. The final two chapters give a brief introduction to database access with VB.NET using ADO.NET, and a brief overview of ASP.NET.

The book provides clear and complete coverage of all topics. It includes many real world code examples which help the reader to better understand all the concepts presented.

Good for the Beta but a little long in some chapters.......2002-10-11

This is a pretty-good book if you base it on the Beta. The chapters on OOP (Chapters 4 - Classes and Objects and 5 - Inheritance and Interfaces) are very long. Chapter 4, 5 and 6 (Event Handling and Delegates)form the heart of this book, but I would have broken them down into smaller chapters. The information in those chapters provide a good introduction to OOP. At times, I felt the authors were hard to follow and found myself re-reading several pages especially in Chapters 4 and 5. Overall this book probably is about 3 1/2 stars. I am hoping that in the next release of this book that the authors would follow their own advice and break the chapters down into smaller parts. ...

Well written and hard to put down.......2002-07-25

I bought this book and several others to prepare myself for the transition from VB6 to VB.NET. I wish they would have covered the disconnected datasets, ADO.NET and ASP.NET in more detail. I would have given it 5 stars if it had.

Other than that, I feel that it is an excellent resource to prepare a programmer from any background for VS.NET. It does a good job of covering the OOP, Inheritance, Overloading, and multithreading subjects in a concise manner.

The book also has a web site for errata and source code. Gary Cornell is a good author and it shows in this book he co-authored.

I have a few Wrox Publishing Books, but my library is starting to collect more an more APRESS books because their style and format is what I expect from a book.

Wrox does publish some good books also:
I would also recommend .NET Enterprise Development in VB.NET from Design to Deployment, ISBN 1861006179, (Wrox Publishers)

Misleading title.......2002-07-20

This book simply doesn't have enough information to be named "a guide for EXPERIENCED programmer". It is rather a quick overall introductions. So don't get this book if you need to get some serious work done.

A wonderful book, clear and to the point.......2002-07-03

Of all the books I bought to learn VB NET, this is the one I find myself turning to repeatedly for information on object oriented programming. The author' treatment of inheritance and delegates/events are models of clarity. I also found his treatment of mutithreading to be clearer and far easier to understand than the new Wrox book which was supossedly devoted to threading. If you want a book on the VB NET language you can't do any better than this one!

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Excellent Book
A great intro to ADO.NET
Tedium
Great .. Simple & Easy to Read
The worst computer book I have read

A Programmer's Guide to ADO .NET in C#
Mahesh Chand
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This essential guide to Microsoft's ADO.NET overviews C#, then leads you toward deeper understanding of ADO.NET. Author Mahesh Chand provides key information about using each of .NET's major data providers, including OLE DB, SQL Server, and the released version of ODBC. Also featured are the methods and properties associated with these data providers' classes. Further, Chand shows you how to work with XML classes, integrate XML into the ADO .NET architecture, and manipulate XML to transfer, read, and store data.

A Programmer's Guide to ADO.NET in C# supplies you with handy ideas for taking advantage of the Visual Studio .NET IDE, and for linking data with powerful Windows and Web Forms, including the multifaceted DataGrid control. Also included is discussion about using ADO.NET to develop Web applications and create Web services.

The easy-to-follow, visually rich examples illustrate creating and executing stored procedures, working with triggers and views, creating and updating tables, and handling events in ADO.NET. Extremely thorough, this book even explains how to develop a web-based guest book.

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This is the book on ADO.NET! ADO.NET is the latest database technology from Microsoft and is the most powerful way to manipulate a database to date. A Programmer's Guide to ADO.NET in C# begins by taking readers through an overview of C# and then delves into ADO.NET. Mahesh Chand provides details on how to use each of .NET's major data providers, including OLE DB, SQL Server, and the release version of ODBC. This book also serves as a great reference for the methods and properties associated with these data providers' classes. In addition, Chand shows C# programmers how to work with XML classes, integrate XML into the ADO .NET architecture, and use the power of XML to transfer, read, and store data.

A Programmer's Guide to ADO.NET in C# provides developers with handy ideas for taking advantage of the Visual Studio .NET IDE and for tying data to myriad, powerful Windows Forms and Web Forms, including the multifaceted DataGrid control. Chand also discusses how you can use ADO.NET to develop Web applications and create Web services. Easy-to-follow, visually rich examples illustrate how to create and execute stored procedures, work with triggers and views, create and update tables, and perform event handling in ADO.NET. Chand also guides you through the development of a Web-based guest book.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent Book.......2004-09-14

Being a programmer for years, but new to the ADO / .NET environment, this book was really helpful. I like the way it was designed. It was easy to follow.

A great intro to ADO.NET.......2004-02-23

Let me begin by saying that this isn't a "ADO.NET for Pro's" book. I bought it when I was first learning ADO.NET and I really liked it. I see that some other people have written some negative stuff about it, but I have to disagree. The book isn't advertised as the definitive guide to ADO.NET. And I think people new to ADO.NET or intermediate programmers wanting to refine their knowledge will really apprecaite it. I know I sure did.

I've been following Mahesh for a while, love his web site and really like his books. He's very methodical and uses good examples to back up his discussion. And if you are new to ADO.NET, Chand's writing is such that he won't lose you because he moves too fast and he won't bore you because he moves too slow.

I can't wait for his next title!

Tedium.......2003-04-01

This book may be useful to someone who is a complete beginner to .NET and C#. However, I found it to be the most tedious programming book I have ever read. The author would list 3 pages of code, then change one line, and list the 3 pages again (with the one line difference)! Also, the author never tired of explaining in some depth (like 3 paragraphs) how the 3 different .NET providers had the same basic class taxonomy (but different implementations). After reading the same 3 paragraphs (more or less) for about the 10th time, I swore to myself that I would puke if I encountered those same 3 paragraphs one more time. Fortunately, I decided to pick up and read "ADO.NET Examples and Best Practices for C# Programmers" instead. I learned more in 50 pages there than I learned in 400 pages of this title.

Great .. Simple & Easy to Read.......2002-12-22

I am new to .NET and database programming. I found this book simple and easy to read and understand. Step by step tutorial format makes it more fun to read. Expert programmers may find book little boring but I recommend a great read for novice programmers moving to database .NET applications.

The worst computer book I have read.......2002-12-12

Do not waste your money on this book. The author is a VB programming and not an C# geek. Does not use good C# programming standards or understands OOP. Example, he thinks its good programming to open a SQL connection and keep it open for the live of the app. Issue 2 - Formatting, the author list page after page of .NET object's prop/methods -- why not list the only the main one. In one section he show 3 code examples (SQL, OLE OD, ODBC) that take about 5-6 pages and there is only one line of code different between them. The graphic layout of the book stinks, it remembers me of high school when I would up the spacing to make a 2 page book report into 10. If the tech reviewer and/or APress would used common sense in reviewing and layout of the book - it would by 200-300 page(max) not the 700+. In fact this book is so bad, I will have to think twice before buying another APress book.

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consulting company hype masquerading as book.......2002-06-29

For someone new to .NET, with a background in visual studio and perhaps MFC C++, the first half of the book is mildly helpful in introducing concepts of the .NET Framework. Some good code examples, but not enough explanation of key pieces of code. If Robison stopped here, this book would be rated fair instead of mediocre. My problem was that I found the second half of the book lacking depth and focus. Robison putatively leads the reader in developing a B2B app, but it morphs into an advertising brochure for the company he partners with in his consulting practice, Webridge. Robison does discuss the complexity of the infrastructure needed to deploy B2B: caching, context, authentication, document retrieval, but instead of elaborating on them, he plugs Webridge as the solution. This is where I feel [discouraged]. The quality and depth begins to fade here, just around the mid-point of the book. The illustrations begin to disappear. Whereas he shows Visual Studio .NET screen shots step by step, there a no corresponding screen shots for BizTalk or Webridge. He also gives up on trying to make Visio elements proportionate in his illustrations, and the effect is sophomoric. In terms of focus, the latter half of the book seems to be a collection of management/project tomes we have all seen and heard before, and appear disjointed from the very technically oriented first half of the book. His attempted metaphorical humor becomes wearing here with phrases like: "To make an omelet, the eggs can't be isolated", as one cliché is piled on top of another. Although I agree with the author that managers are doomed to extinction if they have no technical skills, I'm a not sure even managers would get much out of this book, since it does not seem to know what it really wants to be. Although my knowledge of .NET and B2B development is enriched, it would have been better if the first 100 pages were in a PDF document, because as a book, it doesn't work.

This books contains absolutely nothing worthwhile.......2002-02-26

This is the first of what promises to be a slew of new books coming out on "B2B Commerce with .NET".

Unfortunately, I found this book to be a very BIG disappointment. It is extremely general, has (at best) mediocre technical content, and its information is nearly useless. It offers no real information about B2B or .NET

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Skips theories and gets right down to semantics of .NET.......2003-01-10

The book covers most of the building blocks of the .NET platform, such as the Language Runtime, Framework Class Library, ASP .NET Web Form, Server and HTML Controls, Windows Forms, GDI, ADO .NET, XML and Web Services.

The book's style is more like a manual due to the abundant use of bullet points. It's good for those who'd like to skip the theories and get down to the semantics of the .NET platform fast.

It does not stand out compared with some other .NET books because it does not go deep enough in each topic. Sometimes, I feel like reading an abridged version of the Visual Studio Online Help Topics with simple sample codes added.

I'd like to suggest that practical, more in-depth solutions be provided as examples for using the .NET platform. -- Reviewed by Timothy D.

Lacks web site to check for errata & to obtain example code.......2002-12-27

This book appears to be targeted at programmers who are familiar with object-oriented programming, but not necessarily familiar with Microsoft's development tools. It allows such programmers a way to explore most of the .NET platform apart from the Visual Studio IDE. Programmers primarily familiar with VB or Visual Studio would probably be better served by another book. Programmers more familiar with Java, Delphi, Perl, etc. will find this book a very good introduction to .NET.

The book covers all major areas from the core workings of the Common Language Runtime to web services. The general pace of the book is quick and broad. It assumes you already know the general topic and just want to know what classes, methods, etc. the .NET framework has to address the issue. There are numerous code examples written in VB.NET, but these are very easy to translate into another .NET language if desired.

As stated above, this book will be well received by an experienced C++, Delphi, or Java programmer who wants a strong overview before committing to the .NET platform. It is the best book I've seen towards that end. It is definitely not for programmers who primarily drop controls on a form and then write a few event handlers for them.

My main criticism of the book is lack of a corresponding web site to check for/report errata and obtain the example code found throughout the book. (There is no CD either.) While the programmers reading this book should have no problems debugging the code, they also don't need more keyboarding experience. --Reviewed by Greg S.

A good way to understand .NET.......2002-10-23

This book gives a good understanding of what .NET is and what you can do with .NET classes. It is a good reading for all who wants to develop .NET application or study VB .NET, C# .NET, etc - before creating applications, you need to understand the appropriate platform, and this book definitely can help with it. I am not a novice in programming, and found it very useful.

This book gives you a good understanding of Microsoft .NET.......2002-10-23

This book seems me to be definitely useful. It allows to understand what Microsoft .NET is and what you can do with .NET Framework classes. I think this is a necessary reading before you begin to study VB .NET, C# .NET, and so on - before creating applications, it is better to understand the platform used for this. I recommend it to all developers who wants to know more about .NET or to begin writing .NET applications.

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