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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Tedium., 2 Jun 2004
I am very dissapointed with this book. I was hoping to use it to guide me through writing a database application at work and have found this text to be absolutely no help at all.Having been a programmer for a couple of years now, I skipped straight to Chapter 4, hoping to get some quick insight into ADO .NET. Instead of doing anything programmatically, you are talked through how to use wizards to create windows forms which manipulate databases. How can you learn anything from this approach? You dont need a book to talk you through how to use a wizard, that is the whole point of wizards in the first place! To be fair the next chapter does talk you through doing things more programmatically, but the author doesnt really present any good examples for the use of the code. I was excited about reading the next chapter, as I had heard the term XML being used here and there and was hoping for a good introduction to it here. The author takes you through how to read and write XML files in .NET (amongst other things), but again doesnt really provide any examples of what XML can actually be useful for. The authors style of writing is also extremely monotonous and tedious. I found myself frequently having to skip past sentences as he would make the same statements of fact countless numbers of times throughout one chapter. The way the code is presented and formatted within the book is also extremely unprofessional. Dont buy this book if you are looking for a good well written introduction to the world of ADO.NET.
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