- Paperback: 800 pages
- Publisher: Wrox Press; illustrated edition edition (February 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1861002750
- ISBN-13: 978-1861002754
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 18.5 x 6.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.7 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,699,322 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Filled with late-breaking information on new APIs and standards, Professional ADO 2.5 Programming will make an invaluable resource for anyone who programs with databases on the Microsoft platform. Written for those with some previous experience with ADO, this richly presented text can definitely extend the reach of your database programming skills.
The best thing about this book has to be its comprehensive tour of Microsoft database APIs over the years (from ODBC, DAO, and RDO) to today's Universal Data Access (UDA) strategy centered on OLE DB and ADO. This book also shows where UDA fits in with Microsoft's recommended approach for building applications on the Web (which take advantage of multitiered architectures). If you want to manipulate database objects (such as modifying databases and tables), you'll want to look at the sections on ADOX. And if you find yourself having to write a custom OLE DB Provider, tutorial sections will show you how (plus there's a working sample of a custom provider that hooks into the Windows Registry).
There is plenty for the enterprise programmer, with coverage of the new Active Directory in Windows 2000, plus background on LDAP and using the ASDI interfaces for programming with corporate directory information. The book culminates with a useful case study on business-to-business e-commerce (for an online florist with virtual suppliers). Most of the code uses Visual Basic, though there is mention of Visual C++ as well. Reference sections on all ADO APIs (and constants) will help make this title a must for the working programmer.
There are many facets of today's database standards in the Microsoft platform. Professional ADO 2.5 Programming covers virtually all of them, with a detailed tour of a lot of useful information that can benefit any intermediate or advanced developer. --Richard Dragan
Topics covered: History of Microsoft database APIs, native APIs, ODBC, Data Access Objects (DAO), Remote Data Objects (RDO), Universal Data Access (UDA), Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC), OLE DB providers and consumers, ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), ADODB and ADOR, using Visual C++ and Visual Basic with ADO, Remote Data Services (RDS), XML, Windows DNA and multitiered architectures, MTS, MSMQ, COM+, OLE DB Cursor and Synchronization Services, batch updates, persisting recordsets, asynchronous processing and event notification, data shaping and the SHAPE language, ADO and XML, Internet publishing, WebDAV and resource management, security, multidimensional data and OLAP, ADOX for manipulating database objects, performance tuning, ADSI and directory services, LDAP basics, Exchange Server 2000, and creating OLE DB Providers: guidelines and sample VB code, and an e-commerce business-to-business case study using ADO.
Book Description
All windows developers need to use ADO. ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) 2.5 is Microsoft's latest Data Access technology. It is used to enable fast and efficient data transfer between a database and the end users. What's more, ADO 2.5 works across a range of languages (VB, VC, ASP, Access, Office etc) and with a range of back-end databases - SQL Server 7, Oracle 8i, Access 2000 etc. Almost all developers work with some combination of these technologies, so they all need to know ADO.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Ridiculously poorly indexed; writing's not much better,
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This review is from: Professional ADO 2.5 (Paperback)
This is one of those amalgamated code books that seems to have been put together for no other reason than to enrich the authors. It is not comprehensive, it provides no insights into best practices, and, worst of all, it can't even be used as an effective reference because of the really astoundingly bad index. Look at the Bill Vaughn book for something really worth reading.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Shallow, pointless,
By "akira238" (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo Japan) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Professional ADO 2.5 (Paperback)
This book is useless as a reference or for debugging purposes, which is the only reason I can imagine for buying it as it is no general guide. I've tried to work with this book for a while but it is useless- as another reviewer mentioned, the real resources are elsewhere, mostly in MSDN online.If Microsoft products worked the way they were supposed to, no-one would need to buy such books, yet the authors seemed to assume they always do. I'll be waiting for another third-party group to print a reference, and avoiding Wrox books on microsoft topics in the future.
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This review is from: Professional ADO 2.5 (Paperback)
I'm an experianced programming who was looking for a book with lots of technical depth on ADO. Whilst there are some good chapters in this book, generally the topics covered are not examined in detail, mainly because the coverage is too broad (eg. covers ADSI, Exchange etc etc). Everytime I use this book I find myself having to search MSDN to really get the details I need. aarrgghh!
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