ADO.net book, resources

[Imran Aziz]

Hello All,
I am new to ADO.net and C#, I have been trying to understand both but
having problems. Can anyone please guide me to a good ADO.net book using C#
that I can buy, I have checked books on Amazon but have not been able to
make a decision as to which one should I buy. In addition a good online
resource that I should use to work with ADO.net would be great, for now
although there are lot of resources, but have not been able to find one that
I can get most of the information from, generally have to search for each
thing on Google and then spend hours to find answer to something simple as
declaring a null column in the prepared statement.

Thanks a lot.
Imran.

 

[Aerodyne]

Hi there,

The books I read:
Mastering C# Database Programming by Jason Price
Programming C# by Jesse Liberty

But you'll prob want to focus on .NET 2 features ... so
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/

links:
http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/
http://www.csharp-station.com/Tutorials/AdoDotNet/Lesson01.aspx


HTH

 

[Sahil Malik [MVP]]

Imran,

This is a weird time to look for a book. Primarily because most books out
there right now, are going to be out of date in about 1 more month. (because
of .NET 2.0).

You might want to get started with C#, because the language changes in C#
are fewer in number, and easier to grasp using online material.
For getting started with C#, you might want to look at C# by Jesse Liberty.

For ADO.NET, you might want to concentrate on a ADO.NET 2.0 book, simply
because ADO.NET by the nature of it (and SQL Server 2005) needs a LOT of
architectural tips. In my opinion, every method and every property on every
object in ADO.NET has some practical significance and thought behind it. My
book should be in the market in another month, but I am sure a few other
books will follow.

- Sahil Malik [MVP]
ADO.NET 2.0 book -
http://codebetter.com/blogs/sahil.malik/archive/2005/05/13/63199.aspx

 

[Imran Aziz]

Hello Sahil,
Thanks a lot for your tip. I will concentrate on the online material for
now then. I do have Professional C# from wrox press and it seems to be fine
for C# at the moment, but like most general C# books it has only got 2
chapters for ADO.net which does not cover much, so will look for ADO.net
book in a months time.
Thanks a lot for your response.
Imran.

 

[Imran Aziz]

Thank you very much Aerodyne for the useful links and book suggestion, these
links seem to be quite useful thanks a lot. Will utilize them.

Imran.