Mastering C# Database Programming by Jason Price

Mastering C# Database Programming

Features

Cover Type: Paperback with 800 pages

Published by: Sybex

Edition: 1st Edition May 6, 2003

Written in: English

ISBN 10 Number: 0782141838

ISBN 13 Number: 978-0782141832

Book Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.4 inches

Weighs: 2.4 pounds

Product Description
Enter a New World of Database Programming
C# and ADO.NET facilitate the development of a new generation of database applications, including remote applications that run on the Web. Mastering C# Database Programming is the resource you need to thrive in this new world. Assuming no prior experience with database programming, this book teaches you every aspect of the craft, from GUI design to server development to middle-tier implementation. If you're familiar with earlier versions of ADO, you'll master the many new features of ADO.NET all the more quickly. You'll also learn the importance of XML within the new .NET paradigm. Coverage includes:
* Accessing a database using C# and ADO.NET
* Using SQL to access a database
* Using Visual Studio .NET to build applications
* Creating and modifying database tables
* Understanding ADO.NET classes
* Designing, building, and deploying Web applications that access a database
* Designing, building, and deploying effective Web services
* Using SQL Server's built-in XML capabilities
* Working with a database in a disconnected manner
* Using advanced transaction controls
* Using Transact-SQL to create stored procedures and functions in a SQL Server database

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Enter a New World of Database Programming

C# and ADO.NET facilitate the development of a new generation of database applications, including remote applications that run on the Web. Mastering C# Database Programming is the resource you need to thrive in this new world. Assuming no prior experience with database programming, this book teaches you every aspect of the craft, from GUI design to server development to middle-tier implementation. If you’re familiar with earlier versions of ADO, you’ll master the many new features of ADO.NET all the more quickly. You'll also learn the importance of XML within the new .NET paradigm. Coverage includes:

Accessing a database using C# and ADO.NET
Using SQL to access a database
Using Visual Studio .NET to build applications
Creating and modifying database tables
Understanding ADO.NET classes
Designing, building, and deploying Web applications that access a database
Designing, building, and deploying effective Web services
Using SQL Server’s built-in XML capabilities
Working with a database in a disconnected manner
Using advanced transaction controls
Using Transact-SQL to create stored procedures and functions in a SQL Server database

Reader Reviews
The book has a tutorial style with tons of screenshots. It works through examples step by step with lots of code and not much exposition. If you want an on-rails guided tour to the .NET database APIs with C#, this book is for you. For me I would rather go with an introductory style which gives an overview of an entire API. An example is the chapter three section on SQL, which is thirty pages long. It only veers off the rails twice, once to talk about less than, greater than, equals to, etc. and another time to talk about and, not and or. The chapter spends only half a page on insert, delete and update. If you wanted to learn SQL from scratch you couldn't do it from this chapter, and if you already knew SQL, you would skip this chapter. So I'm not sure what the purpose is. Conclusion, if you like "on-the-rails" tutorials and you want to learn .NET database programming that way, this book is for you. Comment | | (Report this)

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