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Title: Beginning Visual Basic .NET Databases by Denise Gosnell, Matthew Reynolds, Bill Forgey ISBN: 1-86100-555-5 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: December, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.56 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A very good introduction on VB .Net databases
Comment: For people with some experienced on VB .Net, this book will serve as a very good introduction on the basic skills on database programming. Not only have the authors done a good job on showing how to use ADO .Net, but they have also done a very nice job of showing how to apply the skills of objected-oriented programming techinques. Base forms are developed and then inherited to develop more sophisticated windows forms.I strongly think that this book is worth reading.
Rating: 3
Summary: Some good, some bad
Comment: Since this book has 3 authors, it would be interesting to know who wrote what parts. Some parts are very good, with understandable examples and clear explanations. Other parts I just scratched my head and wondered.
It's not that I didn't understand what they were doing, it's that I wondered why they were doing it. It seems they went out of their way to make parts of the code complex and confusing.
The main program developed in the book, the Product Management System, took 4 chapters. It could have been a great example of a simple program that taught the main points of database programming.
However, parts of the code was poorly designed and written, resulting in the program being overly complex and not functioning like a professional program should.
I feel that if you are teaching someone, you should show them the right way to do it. As a beginner in VB I am looking at the whole picture. Just because this book is about database programming, the authors should not ignore the quality of the rest of the language in their example code. Is it too much to ask the professional programmers who write books to write professional quality programs?
I currently don't have a better book to recommend. I've started reading another book I got from the library, but I don't have an opinion yet. To bad the library doesn't have more books on VB so I could try before I buy.
Rating: 1
Summary: not enough examples to be called a beginner book
Comment: This book had a lack of examples.
Poor presentation.
The little snippets of code it used to navigate through
the book were very dificult to grasp since there are no
example to demonstrate that they work.
I have been thru just under a dozen .net books. This is
one of the worst alongside ithe vb.net unleashed book.
It was very easy to give up reading this book since you always
wonder if the code you type is ever going to work or
is that the reason why some of the the code was not downloadable
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