Pro ADO.NET 2.0

                                                         Pro ADO.NET 2.0

     

Biography  

Sahil Malik, the founder and principal of Winsmarts.com has been a Microsoft trainer and consultant for the past many years. Having authored more than 10 books, trained and spoken at conferences all across the world, delivered solutions for many high profile clients, he brings with him invaluable practical experience. For his community contributions, Sahil has been awarded the Microsoft MVP award for the past many years. You will find his trainings devoid of marketing, and deeply rooted in solid knowledge and expertise that is easy to grasp and understand

Sahil Malik definitely knows his stuff and knows how to drive the important points home. His explanations rock! After Shawn Wildermuth's Pragmatic ADO.net book, which is now pretty aged, this is the best ADO.net book I have read.

There is no mention of ObjectDataSource and only a superficial mention of SqlDataSource and data binding as part of a Hello World asp.net example, while the rest of the book ONLY deals with win forms examples.

I have the e-book too, which is a searcheable pdf and I searched for ObjectDataSource. I expected at least a full chapter on it if not more. I thought that in my delirium I must have missed it so I searched over and over in deibelief: 0 results.

Please someone point out where I missed it and make a fool of me 'cause I would rather take that than accept that someone would dare title a book Ado.net 2.0 without ObjectDataSource.

Sahil has spent some time in the blogs on this but I am not rating his blog here. Were it not for this huge omission I would give the book 5 stars. I consider this such a letdown and have to average that with zero stars (matching the number of results I got for ObjectDataSource search) to a total of 2.5 stars.

I still recommend the book. The sections he does cover are masterpieces. Just be aware this cannot be the only Ado.Net 2.0 reference you own. You would have to spring for another one.

This book has both C# and VB.NET examples. The author thoroughly covers ever aspect of ADO.NET 2.0.

He covers the ADO.NET Object Model, Connection Objects, Object-Oriented vs. Relational Representation, DataSets, The DataAdapter, Mapping, Editing Disconnected Data, Conflict Detection and Concurrency Resolution, Transactions, SQL Server Native XML Support, CLR in SQL Server, T-SQL vs. SQLCLR vs. Extended Stored Procedures, and Caching Data.

Everything he covers is very thorough and includes examples. The style he writes in flows very well.

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About ayoub

My name is Ayoub Touil. I'm a Programmer . I'm from Morocco, Kenitra. I love music , reading, playing Football, going out with friends ,eating outside and of course i love programming. I love going to the movies, chating . I love going away on the weekends to different places. I hate surprises, i also hate not having anything to do. I hate onions. My dream is to have a big family , get a good and well pay job, travel around the world and meet all the different cultures and learn a lot about all of them.