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Accessing
databases and datastores via the internet is becoming commonplace today. This book gives developers the
fundamentals of what databases are, how to connect to them with ADO.NET, how
to access/manipulate the database information and, especially, how to present
it in meaningful ways using ASP.NET controls and VB.NET. I highly recommend this book to anyone who
is looking to grow beyond static-content web pages and begin development of
data-driven web applications.
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Written
by a team of 10 professionals with different areas of expertise, this book provides
a solid foundation for creating web applications that rely on creating,
modifying, and displaying information accessed from an SQL database, although
the source can be any data repository that has an OLEDB or ODBC driver
written for it. Filled with many rich
examples, both in the text and in the hands-on exercises, the authors go
beyond the "this is the code you need to insert" paradigm and
explain what each section of code is doing, reinforcing lessons learned from
earlier examples as necessary. The
exercises can either be typed in or run from source downloaded from the WROX
Press website, both are error-free. The book is full of tips and best-practice methodologies, with
an entire chapter devoted to performance considerations. The exercises were tested on students in a
school lab and common mistakes are presented in a section of each
chapter. WROX Press also has
multiple levels of support available to those who need it. The book finally culminates in a
"real world" online-auction application that covers all the bases
and gives comprehensive substance to the theory and examples previously
presented.
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