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Summary: It is okay, not like other Step by Step Books.
Comment: I basically got this book for the main reason my text book for my course i am taking is not the best and is a little vague at times.
Here's the thing, it is not like the other SBS books, the chapters (at least to me) seem out of order, for example, chapters 6 to 8 are relating the dataTables, dataViews, etc, after you are creating them.... Most the items that I feel are the basics are found after you go through a bunch of code that is unrelated. Luckily I do not feel this book is a complete waste of money; there are things that will make it a really good reference book, other then that, get something else if you are looking to learn.
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Summary: Nice fast-track into the technology, but limiting in details
Comment: The book for me basically killed 3 birds with one stone. I am an experienced database application developer, but not in vb.net, c#, or ado.net. I did the exercises both in vb.net and c#. As for the program bugs, annoying, but having to debug some of the programs just helped me learn the language syntax. As for the ado.net, not confusing, but would have like to see more details in the concepts/topics the chapters were trying to explain. Over all, the book for me was nice fast-track into the technology, but limiting in details.
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Summary: Terrible Text
Comment: I read the first five chapters and gave up. The book is poorly writen and very difficult to follow. Most of the samples have problems which leaves you spending the majority of your time debugging the code. Many of the programs won't run with Option Strict on. I wouldn't recommend the book to anyone and yes, my copy is for sale.
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Summary: Just read 90% of these reviews.
Comment: The main reason i'm even writing this review is because for some reason I didn't think to look at book reviews before picking up this book. Little did I know that this book is actually a great door-stop and nothing more. Just read most of the reviews here and you will understand why.
-Poor coding
-Poor format
...etc
Please pick up anything else! I really enjoyed "Database Programming with C#" as it is much clearer and written much better.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Confusorama....
Comment: Have you ever been so deep into the trees that you cannot see the forest?That is what this book does to you. It guides you in creating connections in many ways (code, explorer, IDE) same for adapters, connections etc. you understand each step, you build an application, but then you ask yourself WHAT DID I JUST LEARN? NOTHING!!!! What is the relationship between this object and that? don't know.. where did this object come from? don't know..... on and on.. The examples are not "evolutionary" i.e. they don't start with a simple example and keep adding on to it. Instead each chapter has a separate example, you HAVE TO load it from disk, many of the concepts used in the example are foreign to you -- you are consistently promised to understand the missing links in other chapters-- and then you are expected to understand what you are doing when the example has one concept to teach you and 10 others that are foreign????!!!!!
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