Book recommendations - SQL Server and Visual Studio

[Guest]

Hi all,

I'm looking into using SQL Sever Express as a backend for my Access DB and
I'm also interested in using Visual Studio to help me handle development.
Any suggestions on books that could help teach me?

Sometimes google searches are more trouble then they're worth! Thanks.

Aaron G
Philadelphia, PA

 

[Brendan Reynolds]

I expect you're probably unlikely to find any books dealing in any great
detail with Access and SQL Server 2005 (Express or any other edition) before
the release of the next version of Access.

As for books on Visual Studio, they are countless. There are some books that
try to give a high-level overview of VS and the .NET framework, and then
there are books that get into more depth by concentrating on specific types
of apps such as Windows Forms apps, or ASP.NET Web Forms apps, or mobile
apps. What kind of .NET apps are you planning to develop?

Whatever aspect of .NET most interests you, you're bound to find something
at http://www.microsoft.com/learning/books/ and I have to say the standard
of Microsoft Press books is quite high - I don't think I've ever read a
really bad book published by Microsoft Press, which is more than I could say
for some other publishers.

 

[Tony Toews]

I'm looking into using SQL Sever Express as a backend for my Access DB and
I'm also interested in using Visual Studio to help me handle development.
Any suggestions on books that could help teach me?

SQL Server is reasonable enough in some situations. But Visual
Studio? That'll increase your development time by at least 50% and
maybe three or four times as long.

Tony
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