This work by William Vaughn is derived from years of
experience working with independent front-line developers and the development
teams at Microsoft. It is drawn from a compilation of suggestions, insights
and working solutions to common (and some not so common) problems faced by
developers. ADO
Examples and Best Practices also focuses on addressing ADO problems at
the root--through better designs and better coding practices. These
suggestions yield far better performance--both for developers (they’re able
to write better code more quickly), and for applications (they run faster,
consuming fewer resources).
Today, developers are faced with a dizzying cornucopia of choices when it
comes to data access paradigms. ADO Examples and Best Practices
makes implementation of the best of those technologies far easier--generally
through working examples and discussions of what works and what doesn’t. “Best
Practices” are those techniques developers have found to cause the least
amount of overhead, problems and confusion. While some best practice techniques
are quite simple to implement, other practices require considerable thought
and forethought to enable. This is a developer’s book--full of hints, tips
and notes passed on from those who show the medals and scars of battles won
and lost. The book contains hundreds of examples illustrating how to establish
connections, manage errors, execute queries and manage result sets. It also
discusses how to deal with some of the most complex aspects of ADO including
stored procedure management, ActiveX Server Page (ASP) coding, passing data
from tier-to-tier and much more.
This book will appeal to data access developers writing code on any
platform--from simple single-user database systems, to client/server, to
middle-tier, to Web-based development paradigms. In other words, anyone coding
data access programs in the Microsoft Windows® architectures. While ADO
Examples and Best Practices focuses on Visual Basic development and
shows Visual Basic examples, its insights can help developers using any
language-even C++ or Delphi write better ADO applications and components. The
book does not assume the reader has in-depth ADO experience, nor will it bore
the experienced user. This is done by explaining concepts completely from
design to implementation and discussing techniques to enough depth that the
professional ADO developer can gain valuable insight on the inner-workings of
the interface.
ADO Examples and Best Practices includes a CD containing a
wealth of examples drawn from the text and a wide assortment of other ADO
samples.
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