Do NOT waste your money on ANY other book. This is the one. Covers every aspect of what's important, using a language that doesn't insult your intelligence (especially if you are an experienced developer) with stupid examples.
The examples and scenarios this book covers are all "real world" or at least with real world application. They work and are easy to read. The author wastes no time in covering what you should already know and get down to business.
My favorite ADO.NET book, reference or otherwise printed matter on the subject.
If you are serious about ADO.NET get this book and look nowhere else.
Great book for learning ADO.NET
Rating: 5/5
This book is pretty well written with a good logical flow. The author even throws in a bit of humor to soften the topic a little. This book does a great job of explaining a lot of the objects related to the ADO.NET model. I found the DataAdapter information very helpful. There is a lot to ADO.NET and this book covers a lot of that material. Reading this book should arm you with enough information to begin coding ADO.NET applications and find out the stuff not talked about for yourself. Good stuff!
Good book need more code samples on CD
Rating: 3/5
This book is pretty good. The one big shortfall for em was that it only includes samples from Chapter 11 to the end of the book. It would be nice to have some from the other chapters. The author suggests installing the e-version and then copying and pasting, but this is a big hassle when you could just open the solution and go from there!
The examples and scenarios this book covers are all "real world" or at least with real world application. They work and are easy to read. The author wastes no time in covering what you should already know and get down to business.
My favorite ADO.NET book, reference or otherwise printed matter on the subject.
If you are serious about ADO.NET get this book and look nowhere else.