ADO.NET and ADO Examples and Best Practices for VB Programmers


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ADO.NET and ADO Examples and Best Practices for VB Programmers, Second Edition brings the popular first edition up to date with fresh insights and tips on COM-based ADOand adds a voluminous section on the new ADO.NET technology. Written specifically for COM-based ADO developers retooling for ADO.NET, this is a developer's book, packed with practical advice on how to make code run faster, yet be easier to write and understand. Veteran author William Vaughn guides you through the data access maze with working examples and numerous discussions of what works and what doesn't. Derived from years of experience working with data access developers, Vaughn's Best Practices are a set of techniques proven to drastically reduce overhead, problems, and confusion—for the developer, the system, and the entire team. While some are quite simple to implement, others require considerable knowledge and forethought to enable.




ADO.NET Examples and Best Practices for C# Programmers


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Best-selling author Bill Vaughn gives practical advice that VB developers can use immediately to make their data access code faster and easier to write and understand.




ADO Examples and Best Practices


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Visual Basic database developers are faced with a dizzying cornucopia of choices when it comes to data access paradigms. The purpose of this book is to make the choice and implementation of the best of those technologies far easier. It does this through working examples and numerous discussions of what works and what does not. Vaughns "Best Practices" are the techniques that developers need to know because they cause the least amount of overhead, problems and confusion. While some are quite simple to implement, other "Best Practices" require considerable thought and planning. This is a developers bookfull of hints, tips, and notes passed on from those who show the medals and scars of battles won and lost.




A Programmer’s Guide to ADO.NET in C#


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A Programmer's Guide to ADO.NET in C# begins by taking readers through a fast-paced overview of C# and then delves into ADO.NET. Why should C# programmers use it instead of the existing technologies? What new functionality does it offer? The chapters that follow go through the details on each of the major Data Providers of the .NET platform (OleDb, SQL Server, and ODBC) that enable you to read and write data to the targeted database. These chapters also serve as a good reference for looking up detailed methods and properties for these data provider classes. Authors Chand and Gold also show C# programmers how to work with XML classes and how to integrate XML into the ADO.NET architecture. The book provides programmers with handy ideas about taking advantage of the VS.NET IDE and how you can tie your data to the myriad of powerful controls including the multi-faceted Data Grid. Finally, it goes through creating a guest book application for the Web so you can see how all the pieces fit together.




Database Programming with Visual Basic . NET and ADO. NET


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The topic combination of VB .NET and ADO.NET is unbeatable. VB .NET is the most popular language in which to code. And, every developer needs to understand ADO.NET to allow data to be accessed from a Web site. In this book Developers will be shown numerouse code examples that will illustrate how to program database driven applications within the .NET Framework. The book is aimed at both established and new VB Developers. Important topics covered include: Visual Studio development environment, ASP.NET applications, Windows Forms application, using VB .NET with ADO.NET, complex queries, security, COM interop., and application deployment.




JSP Examples and Best Practices


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JSP Examples and Best Practices takes basic JSP and applies sound architectural principles and design patterns to give the average developer the tools to build scalable enterprise applications using JSP.




GDI+ Programming in C# and VB .NET


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GDI+ Programming in C# and VB .NET starts out with an explanation of GDI+ and how it relates to GDI. Nick Symmonds also includes a chapter on common ways to draw using VB6 and C++. The book then delves deep into the GDI+ namespaces and classes-basic drawing is discussed first with later chapters going deeper into more complex drawing. Paths, Gradients, Alpha Blends, Matrix operations, and transformations are all explained in understandable detail. Later chapters discuss working with bitmaps and other images, drawing, and printing. The final two chapters are devoted to useful projects that tie up the subject matter of the previous chapters in real world examples. Throughout GDI+ Programming in C# and VB .NET, the author not only explains the different namespaces and classes relating to GDI+, but he also takes time to talk about best practices concerning graphics programming. Woven throughout the book are numerous examples that tie together different aspects of programming in .NET, teaching programmers how to get the best possible speed and efficiency out of their code.




Programming the Web with Visual Basic .NET


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After reading Programming the Web with Visual Basic .NET, developers will understand how to build and deploy top quality, professionally designed, highly usable Web applications using Visual Basic .NET.




.NET Development for Java Programmers


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Gibbons shows developers how to move a J2EE application to .NET at the enterprise level, with detailed and serious discussions of how to port Servlet, JSP or EJB-based applications to ASP.NET.




Distributed .NET Programming in C#


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Barnaby describes how to use the new .NET technologies to build fast, scalable, and robust distributed applications.