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Title: Murach's VB.NET Database Programming with ADO.NET by Doug Lowe, Anne Prince ISBN: 1-890774-19-7 Publisher: Mike Murach & Associates Pub. Date: May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great for the small business owner
Comment: As a small business owner who has just moved up from Access to SQL Server, I needed a book that would get me up to speed on VB.net programming quickly so that I could start creating the applications I need for my business. Like every small business owner I realized that I would never be able to afford the technical help to get what I needed done, so I was going to have to learn to do it myself.
I have a small library of books now, including many of the very fine Wrox books, but I found the Murach series to be the best so far for me: a business owner who needs to learn programming geared towards business problems quickly. The other books seemed to spend an exorbitant amount of time on non essential issues, and I bogged down in creating non relevant examples. This book went right to the heart of the matter: creating a usable interface to my sql server database and explained it all very clearly. I have learned more in the last two days with this book than in the last month with the other titles. In fact, this book will probably provide clarity for those other books on my shelf and allow me to understand their concepts more clearly as well. If you are like me: a small business owner, not a professional programmer, this book is for you. I have spent over a $1,000 in books in the last month. I would have saved myself a lot of money had I bought this first.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Very Practical Book truly geared towards learning.
Comment: There are very few publishers in the IT world that follow the approach taken by the Murach's series to teach. All the left hand side pages of this book are theory and explanations and all the right hand side pages of this book are code/explanations. It is a new and unique approach that seems to work. It is clear when you read the book that the authors are definitely geared towards teaching the subject and making it as easy as possible for you to learn. This is obvious even in the way things are explained where the authors make no assumptions and start from scratch in explaining everything in great detail. This is an excellent approach to teach beginners.
The book is split into two parts - using VB.NET to build desktop applications and using VB.NET to build web applications. But for both sections, it MAINLY addresses the issue of connecting to databases through ADO.NET. And if you are looking at learning how to develop just web applications, you are forced to learn how to build desktop applications first. The reason for this is that the book starts with the desktop applications before proceding to the web applications and it doesn't repeat the knowledge presented in the earlier chapters. So you can't start directly reading the web development chapters. But we found that it isn't that great an inconvenience.
If you are in a rush, you are better off looking at another book in the market - 'Programming the Web with Visual Basic.NET' by Torkelson, et al. This book only addresses how to develop web applications using VB.NET and it does an equally fantastic job at teaching if not better. It also goes a lot deeper into the subject. This other book does does claim to be only for Intermediate/Advanced users though we believe that if you are an experienced programmer but just new to VB.NET, you should be okay.
The book being reviewed here does have a website where you can download the sample code and we have been able to successfully use a lot of the code with very few problems in implementing the code. There are almost no negatives to this book with the exception that it isn't for an advanced user and it forces you to learn how to build desktop applications first. Everything it addresses, it does a fantastic job but it does leave out the very advanced topics.
We thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and wanted to share this valuable find with others (not just this book but also other books by the Murach's series). We hope you too enjoy learning from this book as much as we did. Our copy will continue to be used for a long time to come to give you an indication of how much we like this book. Good luck!
Rating: 5
Summary: In a class by itself!
Comment: I have been working through your excellent primer on ADO.NET, which is the first such book I have seen that makes real sense to me, because it actually focuses on something close to real-life database programming. In addition, the writing is clear, and the program samples are amazingly bug-free. (One of the most infuriating problems a person can encounter in learning a new programming environment is an author's buggy code.) Most of the .NET primers that I have seen have been dreadful, which may be one reason why this technology's penetration has been unexpectedly slow. VB.NET Database Programming with ADO.NET is in a class by itself, I think.
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Title: Murach's Beginning Visual Basic .NET by Anne Prince ISBN: 1890774154 Publisher: Mike Murach & Associates Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.50 |
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Title: Murach's SQL for SQL Server by Bryan Syverson ISBN: 1890774162 Publisher: Mike Murach & Associates Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.50 |
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Title: Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (Core Reference) by Francesco Balena (Wintellect), Francesco Balena ISBN: 0735613753 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 17 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Murach's ASP.NET Web Programming with VB.NET by Doug Lowe, Anne Prince ISBN: 1890774200 Publisher: Mike Murach & Associates Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.50 |
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Title: The Ultimate VB .NET and ASP.NET Code Book by Karl Moore ISBN: 1590591062 Publisher: APress Pub. Date: 02 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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