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Title: Database Programming With C# by Carsten Thomsen ISBN: 1-59059-010-4 Publisher: APress Pub. Date: 05 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $54.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.62 (29 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Full coverage
Comment: I expected this book to be about getting to SQL Server from .NET. It certainly is but it also goes so much further. Thomsen gives his main examples using SQL Server but also includes Oracle, MySQL and other databases in his coverage. He also goes into depth about Active Directory (and other LDAP) access, interfacing to Exchange Server etc. There's even a handy reference to the Normal Forms, which I always need to look up somewhere. A real database book!
Thomsen does, of course, cover ADO.NET, splitting it thoroughly into two camps, connected and disconnected. This is a good approach because with pure .NET you really want to keep away from connected but you may be willing to 'compromise'. There's a useful chapter on Message Queuing, which I haven't seen covered anywhere else so well.
Even though I code with VB.NET as well as C#, this book had a useful chapter on making full use of Visual Studio for database development and will certainly speed up my future developments.
He uses a simple application of his own (software isn't provided but can be downloaded) to illustrate his points throughout. I like this approach and also find it refreshing to get away from the Publishing world for the examples.
If you don't know C# at all, get another book as well as this one. If you need to do any kind of data access, including even designing your own database, get this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Good database book
Comment: Great book with all the details needed to get up to speed on not just ADO.NET but also MSMQ, Active Directory, and SQLXML
There are a few things that can be imporved, such as moving the many tables out to an appendix as suggested by other reviewers,
or just to end of a chapter? I still think the book is well worth a 5 star rating because of the many tips and detailed
information. I like chapter 8 the most but chapter 6 with its Oracle coverage is also worth a lot to me.
Rating: 4
Summary: Best C# book I've stumbled upon yet
Comment: Carsten Thomsen, Database Programming with C# (Apress, 2002)
Now this is a C# book (unlike the last one I reviewed here). Thomsen gets into the nuts and bolts from the get-go and starts the reader developing a real application. He gives us the underlying application logic, explains how it works (and tries to instill good coding practices along the way), all with an eye towards actual development rather than stand-alone sample programs that teach only a very few.
I wish he'd spent more time in the book's final chapter going over some of the code explicitly rather than just referring us to the code in the online zip files, but what's here is pretty fine. *** ½
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Title: Beginning C# Databases by Jacob Hammer Pedersen, Jon Reid, Ranga Raghunathan, Scott Allen, Syed Fahad Gilani ISBN: 1861006098 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: ADO.NET Examples and Best Practices for C# Programmers by William R. Vaughn, Peter Blackburn ISBN: 1590590120 Publisher: APress Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Microsoft Visual C# .NET Language Reference by Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Corporation ISBN: 0735615543 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 06 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: C# Programming Tips & Techniques by Charles Wright, Kris Jamsa ISBN: 0072193794 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 28 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Inside C#, Second Edition by Tom Archer, Andrew Whitechapel ISBN: 0735616485 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 24 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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