Professional ADO.NET with VB.NET - Softcover

Dickinson, Paul; Ferracchiati, Fabio Claudio; Hoffman, Kevin Scott; Joshi, Bipin; Mack, Donny; McTainsh, John; Milner, Matthew; Narkiewicz, Jan; Seven, Doug

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861008066 ISBN 13: 9781861008060

Publisher: WROX Press Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

ADO.NET is Microsoft's latest data access technology and, as an integral part of the .NET Framework, is far more than just an ADO upgrade. ADO.NET provides an extensive set of .NET classes that facilitate efficient access to data in a large variety of sources, enable sophisticated manipulation and sorting of data, and form an important framework within which to implement inter-application communication.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to using ADO.NET, with plenty of practical code examples and extensive technical information. Whether you're developing web applications using ASP.NET, Windows Forms applications, or XML Web Services, this book will show you how to use .NET's data access technology to maximum effect. Along the way, it looks at:

Understanding the architecture of the ADO.NET data providers

Reading and writing data with data readers, data adapters and DataSets

Making development safer with XML Schemas and strongly typed DataSets

Defining constraints on and relationships between your data

Using ADO.NET's built-in support for transactional processing

Optimizing the performance and security of your ADO.NET applications

Developing your own data provider for a custom data source

About this title

From the Publisher

If you're already developing applications within the .NET Framework, or you have experience of developing data-driven applications with ADO and wish to make the transition to .NET, then this book is for you. It is aimed at fairly experienced programmers, and is not intended for the hobbyist or the beginner.

This book is an extensive revision of "Professional ADO.NET Programming", which was published in November 2001 (ISBN 1-861005-27-X). It is fully compliant with release version of .NET and contains Visual Basic .NET code.

About the Author

Paul Dickinson graduated unspectacularly and spent several years cutting his software development teeth writing software to control mass spectrometers. His most recent resting place involves developing information management systems for laboratories.

Fabio Claudio Ferracchiati is a software developer and technical writer. He works in Rome for CPI Progetti Spa (cpiprogetti.it) where he develops internet/intranet solutions using Microsoft technologies.

Kevin Hoffman is a software technology junkie who has worked at everything from nationwide UNIX mainframe support to a Software Engineer for one of the most popular e-Commerce websites on the Internet. Recently he has found that he loves to write and teach about programming as much as he loves doing it himself.

Bipin Joshi is a software developer having skills in Microsoft technologies. Currently he works on .NET technologies with Mastek Ltd. He runs a personal website at bipinjoshi.com that provides articles, tutorials, and source code on variety of .NET topics.

Donny Mack, MCP, MCSD, Microsoft .NET MVP, is one of the co-founders of DotNetJunkies.com - an education company solely dedicated to ASP.NET and other web-related .NET technologies. Prior to founding DotNetJunkies.com with Doug Seven, Mack worked at Microsoft Corporation as a Visual Interdev/ASP Support Professional.

Starting as a commercial diver, John McTainsh soon got back into coding, developing control systems for underwater robots in C and C++. Since then he has written many control systems and various other application and drivers. He currently works as a team leader developing public safety software for computer aided dispatch systems used by police, fire, and ambulance vehicles.

Matt Milner works as a Technical Architect for BORN in Minneapolis where he designs and builds Microsoft solutions for clients in a variety of industries. Matt's primary focus has been using Windows DNA architecture and he is excited about the move to .NET and all the powerful new features.

Jan D. Narkiewicz is Chief Technical Officer at Software Pronto, Inc (jann@softwarepronto.com). In his spare time Jan is Academic Coordinator for the Windows curriculum at U.C. Berkeley Extension, teaches at U.C. Santa Cruz Extension, and writes for ASPToday.com.

Doug Seven is the co-creator of DotNetJunkies.com, a free online centralized resource website used by developers to learn more about the .NET Framework - specifically ASP.NET. Prior to that, Seven worked as a Technical Lead in the Developer Support group at Microsoft.

Edition details

• Publisher: WROX Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1861008066
• ISBN 13: 9781861008060
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 624