Suggest Books on ADO.NET Programming

[Gareth Fowler]

Can anyone suggest a book(s) that would be beneficial for programming C# to
access Word/Excel/etc. documents?

What I'm after is books to would aim us to write code in C# to access and
manipulate Word/Excel documents. i.e.. We send out a mail merge letter
written in Word but for certain clients they have data that was entered into
a Excel spreadsheet inserted into the Word document WITHOUT the need for
have multiple letters. This is only an example, but it shows that we just
want to be able to manipulate data in the Office System using a C# Web or
Desktop Application.

The books that I'm currently looking at are:-

Microsoft ADO.NET (Core Reference) by David Scappa (MS Press) (ISBN
0735614237)
Pragmatic ADO.NET by S. Wildermuth (Addison-Wesley) (ISBN 0201745682)

Any help would be gratefully received.

Thanks again,

Gareth Fowler
Discovery Net Solutions

 

[William Ryan]

Both of those books are excellent, although no ADO.NET library is compelete
without Bill Vaughn' ADO and ADO.NET Examples and Best practices...

As far as Office automation goes, John Walkenbach has Excel 2*** Power
Programming with VBA that's great and he does a good job on DataAccess. I
can't point you anywhere on word. If you get any of the ADO.NET books
mentioned and Walkenbach's book, you'll be able to get through most any
problem with Excel and ADO.NET.

HTH,

Bill