Beginning VB.NET Databases by
Thearon Willis
Fantastic Book For Learning Vb.Net & Ado.Net
What is this book about? Beginning Visual Basic .NET Databases
teaches Visual Basic .Net developers the concepts and skills necessary to
write VB.Net database applications. This book touches on database design
concepts but focuses on using ADO.Net to access and manipulate data in
relational databases. While the book covers all data providers in ADO.Net
briefly, the primary objective is to focus on using the OleDb provider for
accessing Access databases and the SQL provider for accessing SQL
Server databases. What does this book cover? Readers learn
how to how to use queries, views, and stored procedures to efficiently
access and manipulate data from their applications. We provide examples
and instruction on accessing data from Windows applications, ASP.Net
applications, as well as Web Services. Specific coverage includes
the following: ODBC OleDB SQL, Stored Procedures, and
Views Creating Queries Building a Data Access Class Selecting

and Updating Data Accessing Data in ASP.NET Working with XML
Web Services
Personal Review: Beginning VB.NET Databases by Thearon
Willis
I am a novice Visual Basic programmer. I learned VB6 several years ago
while I was still in college, but during the last six years working as a
consultant, I haven't done any coding. Then a project came along where I
was going to have to begin coding again. So, I looked into the latest
version of Visual Basic, which is Visual Basic.Net 2003 or 1.1. What I
didn't realize is that VB6 and Visual Basic.Net are not very similar at all.
The biggest difference that I found was that VB.Net is truly object oriented
while VB6 is not. Anyway, I needed to learn VB.NET quickly in order to
develop an application that generated reports for my client. As a result, I
also needed to learn ADO.NET in order to work with the database, which
stored all of the data.
I bought a ton of books on both VB.NET and ADO.NET and most of them
were terrible. The other books that I purchased provided either no
coverage on VB.NET and ADO.NET or it contained code examples didn't
work correctly when I created them. The biggest reason that most of the
code samples didn't work correctly was because a lot of the books on
these subjects, especially ADO.NET were written using the first release of
this development tool, which was Visual Studio.NET 2002 or 1.0.
Therefore, I found that I kept buying books trying to find something that
would provide me with an introduction to VB.NET with a significant
emphasis on ADO.NET.
Finally, I came across this book. While I am only about half way through it,
I can honestly say that it's the best book I've found so far. Now, as I said
initially, I would consider myself a novice VB.NET programmer, so I did
need a book that would allow me to refresh my programming skills as well
as introduce me to database programming with ADO.NET, since I had no
experience with ADO, DAO, etc. This book is great because while it is
geared toward newbies, it's not overly simple. The examples are all real
world scenarios that you would use if you were in my current predicament.
If you have no VB experience whatsoever, then you may want to choose a
simpler book that focuses solely on VB. But, if you have some experience
with VB6 and need to learn VB.NET and ADO.NET, this is an excellent
starting point. The best part about this book is that it was written in 2004,
which made me believe that the author used this in conjunction with
VB.NET and ADO.NET 1.1 and so far, everything has worked perfectly.
So, if you're in a similar situation, then please take my advice and buy this
book first rather than spend hundreds of dollars on other books that won't
help you at all.
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