ADO.NET Examples and Best Practices for C# Programmers

Database developers are faced with a dizzying cornucopia of choices when it comes to data access. The new .NET technology forces developers to completely rethink their data access strategies because there is an entirely new language and a new set of data access interfaces to learn and incorporate into their designs. Expert teacher and developer William R. (Bill) Vaughn and Peter Blackburn are there to help you make the right choice. All at once, ADO.NET Examples and Best Practices for C# Programmers will make the choice and implementation of the best of those technologies far easier.

Vaughn and Blackburn do this through working examples and numerous discussions of what works and what doesn't. Vaughn's Best Practices are the techniques that developers need to know because they cause the least amount of overhead, problems, and confusion-for the developer, the system, and the team. While some are quite simple to implement, other Best Practices require considerable knowledge and forethought to enable.

ADO.NET Examples and Best Practices for C# Programmers is a developer's book-full of hints, tips, and notes passed on from those who show the medals and scars of battles won and lost.

About the Authors

William R. Vaughn retired from Microsoft in August of 2000. He is currently the president of Beta V Corporation, devoted to providing comprehensive training and technical content to the Visual Basic data access developer community. He has taught, written, lectured, sold, supported, designed, coded, managed, and cried over mainframe and microcomputer systems and software for 30 years. He worked at Microsoft for 14 years where he held positions ranging from writing, teaching, and managing trainers at the Microsoft University (MSU) to being Visual Basic Enterprise Product Manager. During his last two years at Microsoft he worked with the Internal Technical Education group teaching Microsoft employees. While there he developed and taught courses on Visual Basic, data architectures, and ActiveX Data Objects (ADO).

Peter D. Blackburn is currently part of the Editorial Direction Team of Apress with special responsibility towards Quality Assurance, and is also CEO of Boost Data Ltd, and CTO of International Network Technologies Organization Ltd. Since the age of 11, he has been a continual peripheral coding device to one computer system or another. Peter studied Computer Science at Cambridge University in England and has worked for the last 12 years as Lead Consultant Developer on corporate and local government distributed database systems. He has led and trained teams working with nearly all the Microsoft data access technologies at the battle scared sharp end, in addition to having designed and implemented heavy-duty custom-built distributed client/server databases using Open Source D-ISAM on Unix platforms.