BOOK REVIEW
Book Title: Pragmatic ADO.NET Data Access for the Internet World	Publisher: Addison Wesley
Author(s): Shawn Wildermuth	ISBN 0201745682

Category					Rating
LEGEND:	5=Excellent	4=Good	3=Standard	2=Fair	1=Poor
Overall recommendation					5
Quality of organization					4
Easy to read and navigate					5
Sufficient quantity of examples					5
Examples are error free					4
Reuse for reference					5
Quality of index					5

Summary Review

I found this book was very easy to read. The examples in the book are very easy to understand and use as a reference. The book explained very good information about ADO.NET concept and all the aspects of it. I have already started to use this book at work for a quick reference. I liked the chapter 9 “ADO.NET and XML” the most.

Detailed Comments 

From the beginning of the book in chapter 1 it was easy to understand the ADO.NET concept. This chapter provided a very good understanding of how ADO.NET works and how technology of data access evolved into ADO.NET. Chapters 2 and 3 provided good explanations and examples of getting connected to the database and issuing SQL commands. Chapter 3 also provided good information and examples on how the result of the SQL commands. Chapter 4 gave very good insight on the DataReader and how to use most of its functionality. Chapters 5, 6, and 7 were all about the Datasets, how to construct datasets, worth with datasets, and a new programming model the Typed Datasets. Chapter 8 provided a good explanation with excellent examples on how to update the Database and how to manage concurrency whether the Dataset is connected or disconnected. Chapter 9 explained the relationship between ADO.NET and XML. It described how well XML and ADO.NET are integrated. Chapter 10 discusses DataBinding, something I don’t normally do. However, the examples were very good. Lastly chapter 11 gave some very well thought out design suggestions.

Reviewer:

Annie Wu

Date:

01/10/03