Murach's VB.NET Database Programming with ADO.NET FROM THE PUBLISHER
If youﾽre a VB.NET programmer who wants to learn database programming with
ADO.NET at a professional level hereﾽs a new book that presents all the
skills you need in a logical progression from the simple to the complex. And
because our books have features that you wonﾽt find in competing books,
youﾽll learn faster and better. Hereﾽs how we do it:
This book presents everything you need to know to develop VB.NET
database applications at a professional level. That sounds simple. But to
get all of this information from other sources would take you 3 or 4 other
books plus the Microsoft documentationﾽand youﾽd still have to figure out
how it all worked together!
To show you how all of the pieces of a database application
interact, this book presents 21 complete applications ranging from the
simple to the complex. This includes the forms, the code, and the property
settings. As we see it, the only way to master database programming is to
study applications like these. And yet, you wonﾽt find them in other books.
If you page through this book, youﾽll see that all of the
information is presented in ﾽpaired pages,ﾽ with the essential syntax,
guidelines, and examples on the right page and the perspective and extra
explanation on the left page. This helps you learn faster by reading
less...and this is the ideal reference format when you need to refresh your
memory about how to do something.
SYNOPSIS
To present all the database programming skills in a manageable progression,
this book is divided into five sections.
In section 1, chapter 1 introduces you to the database concepts and
terms that you need to know, and chapter 2 gives you your first look at the
classes and objects of ADO.NET. Then, chapter 3 shows you how to develop
your first complete database application. When youﾽre done, youﾽll know how
to use the disconnected data architecture and the basic ADO.NET objects, and
youﾽll be well prepared for all that follows.
In section 2, youﾽll learn how to use the ADO.NET classes and
techniques that every database programmer should know. That includes the use
of typed and untyped datasets, bound and unbound controls, data views,
parameterized queries, and relationships. When youﾽre done, youﾽll be well
on your way to becoming an accomplished database programmer.
In section 3, youﾽll raise your skills to another level. In chapters
8 and 9, youﾽll learn how to work with data commands directly and youﾽll
learn three more ways to create the schemas that define the tables in a
dataset. Then, chapter 10 shows you how to create and use database classes
so you can separate the database layer from the business and presentation
layers of an application. Last, to show you how the skills of the first 10
chapters are used in the real world, chapter 11 presents a complete order
entry application that updates 9 different tables.
In section 4, youﾽll learn the database programming skills that you
need as you develop web applications with ASP.NET. In particular, youﾽll
learn three programming techniques that are commonly used with web
applications that use databases, and youﾽll learn how to use two Web Server
controls that are specifically designed for working with databases.
Finally, section 5 completes the set of skills that every .NET
database programmer should have. Here, chapter 15 introduces you to
ADO.NETﾽs XML features. Chapter 16 shows how to use Crystal Reports to
generate reports from a database. And chapter 17 shows how to use the Server
Explorer to perform common database tasks like managing the data objects
that you work with.
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