Murach's ADO.NET 3.5, LINQ, and the Entity Framework with VB 2008

Murach's ADO.NET 3.5, LINQ, and the Entity Framework with VB 2008
Authors
Anne Boehm
ISBN
1890774529
Published
30 Mar 2009
Purchase online
amazon.com

"I have read a lotta programming books in my time, and this is the best presentation and layout of a book I have ever seen. It's easy to read. Content is great. I wish I had found it first in my conversion to .NET. I am so impressed that I am checking out the other Murach titles."--Online review of the previous edition of this bookThis 3.5 edition of Murach's ADO.

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Milton L. White said
I purchased this book on the 6/11/09 and received it on 6/17/09 and since I have gotten I can put it down it is very well organized and easy to follow. The perfect book to get you started.

P. Byrne said
As with all of the other Murach books that I've read, this book has a good layout and was easy to read and understand. The first chapter of the book briefly covers the fundamentals of database programming. It then gives a brief introduction to ADO.NET 3.5 followed by several critical chapters on working with the ADO.NET components such as connections, commands, stored procedures, parameters, data sources, data sets, data readers, data tables, transactions, and object data sources. It gives detailed explanations and examples of how to use each of these components and then follows up with a very detailed chapter devoted solely to building a sample application.

The book then proceeds to give a brief introduction to LINQ, followed by chapters on working with LINQ components, with 2 chapters devoted to LINQ to SQL technology.

The last several chapters of the book cover The Entity Framework including creating an Entity Data Model, LINQ to Entities, the Entity SQL language, and the use of Entity Data Source Controls in web based applications.

Although, it would have been nice for the book to include some additional sample applications for the LINQ and Entity Framework technologies, I would still recommend it to anyone in need of a good solid reference for how to use these new technologies.

Joe Stagner said
It's no secret that I'm a fan of Murach's books.

I'm preparing to record a podcast on data access and so I pickup up this book.

In a word - BRILLIANT.

It covers the three primary data access technologies that matter to developers using current .NET development tools.

Detailed coverage of all three makes this book a no-brainer. I read it cover to cover and it has assumed a bit of high-value real-estate on my desk !!!!

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Murach's ADO.NET 3.5, LINQ, and the Entity Framework with VB 2008

Kirk Bowman said
Well the title says it all, doesn't it? When I first picked up the Murach book "ADO.NET 3.5 Linq and the Entity Framework with VB 2008" by Anne Boehm, I was a little overwhelmed by the thought of investing time in another 700+ pages of technical jargon and technologies that I couldn't apply to my daily work. However, I'm glad I got past the cover and dug into it a little deeper.

I read the 2009 updated version of this book that is divided into five major sections with several chapters under each section. These sections cover the latest Microsoft ADO data centric technologies that all .Net developers should know about, understand and be able to apply to their development projects.

The sections are as follows:
Section 1: An Introduction to ADO Programming
Section 2: How to use data sources and datasets for Rapid Application Development
Section 3: Three-Layer Windows Forms Applications
Section 4: How to use LINQ (Language INtegrated Query)
Section 5: How to use the Entity Framework

FYI, there are two versions of this book for both VB and C# programmers. I appreciate this because I want to learn both languages and this makes it easy to compare and contrast the two languages.

What I really like about this book is the practical approach; the author introduces you to a subject by giving you an overview of the technology and then teaches you by example by answering a series of "How to ..." questions and answers. Included with the screenshots and code examples are a summarization of key concepts, terms to learn and occasional exercises. All the code examples and sample databases are downloadable from Murach.com.

I believe this book is intended for the intermediate programmer that wants to learn these new technologies quickly and in a straight forward way. This book gets the job done and I highly recommend it.

Steven Lane said
I read this book as a C# developer with a pretty sound knowledge base of ADO.NET. I was wanting to delve deeper into LINQ and the Entity Framework. I thought that this book would provide a good introduction to those topics and it delivered.

The style of the book makes it extremely readable. It also served me well to review the concepts of ADO.NET. The concepts are illustrated with code examples that you can use in your day-to-day coding.

I would recommend this book for either those that are wanting to start out in these topics or to refresh and get a solid understanding of ADO.NET, LINQ or Entity Framework.

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