This is a book for beginning and intermediate VB.NET students who want to learn the core of VB.NET: database programming, and they want to learn by going on a journey with Peter Wright at the height of his powers.

Using the same iconoclastic drive that launched Peter Wright to a best selling author with his 'Beginning VB6' book from Wrox, Peter is back in business with a return to his best form. There are an array of VB.NET database books on the market, but Peter offers more than just a technical walkthrough: he takes the reader through a personal journey to expertise in VB.NET database programming.

Autorentext
Dan Maharry is a UK-based professional technical author with over a dozen books to his name and many more as technical reviewer and editor for a variety of publishers including Wrox, Apress, Microsoft Press and O'Reilly Associates. He's also a .NET developer with past stints for the dotCoop TLD registry and various web development houses under his belt. He contributes code and documentation to various open source projects and tries to blog and to speak from time to time to user groups about cool stuff. He listens to a lot of new music as he does the above.

Klappentext

• Written by best selling author Peter Wright, and marks a return to his best form as he writes with a mission again. 'Beginning VB6' by Peter Wright sold circa 100k copies, and he followed up with Beginning VB6 Objects which sold circa 30k copies on a more niche topic.

• A personal journey with an expert in VB.NET database programming, this is a book that stands out from the crowd.

• A complete tutorial involving the reader in all the key areas of VB.NET database programming that they need to progress their skill set in VB.NET.

• All the skills are covered that a novice programmer will need to meet the database programming challenges they may meet in their programming career.

• 2 months free subscription to ASP.Today for readers of this title.

Zusammenfassung

Visual Basic .NET is a powerful .NET programming language that is often considered the workhorse of programming. Further, development in VB .NET accounts for a huge portion of all programming efforts. To understand VB .NET is to meet challenging programming projects head-on.

Author Dan Maharry livens the topic with his unique style, and presents you with the skill set you want and need, to enter today's VB .NET programming jobs. This book is an ideal read for beginning and intermediate VB .NET students who want to understand the core of VB .NET and database programming. Maharry is at the height of his powers, and promises to lead you on a memorable VB .NET journey.

Inhalt
Installing MSDE.- Creating a Simple Database Application.- Introducing SQL.- What's ADO.NET?.- Creating Connections.- Introducing Commands.- Introducing Data Readers.- Introducing Datasets and Data Adapters.- Building Windows Forms Applications.- Using ASP.NET.- Validating Web User Input.- Working with Tables and Relationships.- Learning More About Queries.- Understanding Views and Stored Procedures.- Using Indexes and Constraints.- Securing Your Database.- Using XML and ADO.NET.- Handling Exceptions.- Using Transactions.- Working with ADO.NET Events.- Working with Text and Binary Data.- Using ADO.NET 2.0.