As one of the most popular programming languages in the world, Visual Basic continues to expand on the functionality and flexibility of its framework. This book explains how to use Visual Basic 2005 to write efficient database applications that can be used throughout an enterprise.
With this teaching tool, you'll learn how to use queries, views, and stored procedures to efficiently access and manipulate data from your applications. You'll get a firm grasp on using ADO.NET as well as OleDb, SQL, and Oracle to access specific databases. Plus, hands-on examples and try-it-out exercises help you put your reading into practice so that with each chapter, you'll gradually build the pieces of a single application.
What you will learn from this book
How ADO.NET continues to evolve as a building block for accessing and manipulating data in relational databases
Ways to encrypt and decrypt data, hash passwords, and further secure access to your data
Techniques for accessing your Web Service from both Windows(r) and Web applications
Best practices for using business logic and data access components to produce report data or update data in your back-end databases
Who this book is for This book is for developers who want to learn to write database applications and back-end databases, such as Microsoft(r) Access, Microsoft(r) SQL Server, and Oracle(r). Some experience with Visual Basic 2005 is helpful but not required.
Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0
A very frustrating book.:
Having just read "Beginning Visual Basic 2005" from the same publisher and author (which I feel was a decent book to get started using VB), I moved onto this title and was very disappointed with it. The book forces you to begin your database programming using MS ACCESS, which I had no interest in doing. So, just skip those chapters right? Wrong. It really does force you down this path due to later projects in the book relying on you completing the earlier chapters. I even tried cheating by just downloading... more info
Beginners Beware:
Chapters 1-5 involves writing little applications in vb and testing them out. This is extremely helpful and I learned a lot. However in chapter 6 the fun ends. Now you begin to insert code into a monolithic pre-constructed application. Sure, you'll understand the snippets of code you insert, but how it interacts with all the content in the forms is beyond me. The title would be best changed to "Beginning VB 2005 Databases for VB Developers". I'm fairly confident that if you know VB like the back of your... more info
Extremely Poor:
I purchased this to create a total database program. Not only is the structure all over the place, many of the code samples are incorrect and don't work, or are so completely baffling as to why he chose that method that I gave up, and bought another book.
An absolute mess:
I got this book to develop a VB data base using SQL express that now is part of VB 2005. The book is an absolute mess mixing SQL ORACLE and Access concepts all at the same time and chapters. Then there are a few chapters with more emphasis in Access, but then updates all these Access examples to SQL and Oracle using the code that has being explained in these previous chapters but is not shown again. So to do a simple connection and SQL Select to a database, you have to read half of the book including the... more info
