Programming Microsoft® ADO.NET
2.0 Core Reference by David Sceppa
Needs More Emphasis On Typed Datasets
Build your expertise as you move beyond the basics—and delve into the
essential topics of programming with ADO.NET 2.0. This comprehensive
reference offers expert guidance, hands-on instruction, and code samples
in Microsoft Visual C#® and Visual Basic® to help advance your mastery
of developing database applications for Microsoft Windows and the Web.
Discover how to: •Work with design-time data access features in Microsoft
Visual Studio® 2005 • Use Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 data
providers to connect to databases • Build connection strings and enable
connection pooling • Execute queries, including parameterized and
asynchronous queries, and retrieve their results • Create DataSet objects
to work with offline data and explore common usage scenarios • Use
the new Common Language Runtime features and XML data type in
Microsoft SQL Server™ 2005 • Generate logic and use stored
procedures for simple to advanced updating scenarios • Design Web
applications with new data access features in ASP.NET 2.0—including
code-free data-binding capabilities PLUS—Get Visual Basic and C#
code samples, and a Microsoft .NET Data Provider on the Web
Personal Review: Programming Microsoft® ADO.NET 2.0 Core
Reference by David Sceppa
I was assigned to work on a project using VS 2008 with SQLServer
Express. Not knowing anything about ADO.NET but having read other
books by this excellent author, I bought this book (actually, I ended up with
2 copies by mistake - however I leave one copy at home).
Sceppa covers everything extensively regarding untyped datasets and,
being a slow learner, I hard a hard time taking the material he presents
and applying it to strongly typed datasets, which in my opinion he covers
too scantily. Then I discovered the TypedTableBase(Of xxxRow) class in

the VS help files. I printed a copy of this Help topic, and with this in hand, I
can easily connect untyped-to-typed datasets.
All in all, it's a very useful book. If he ever writes an updated edition,
maybe he can save others some time by expanding the typed dataset
topic. Better coverage of DataGridViews and bound controls in general
would also be helpful.
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