Publisher: Apress
Pages: 772
Disk: 1 CD
Level: Intermediate/Advanced
ISBN: 1-893115-68-2

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Using the ADO Stream Object to Manage BLOBs

Sample Chapter: Introducing ADO.NET

Updated examples: Source Code

Publisher: Apress
Pages: 384
Disk: 1 CD
Level: Intermediate/Advanced
ISBN: 1-590590-12-0

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Visual Basic database developers are faced with a dizzying cornucopia of choices when it comes to data access paradigms. The onset of the new .NET technology forces developers to completely rethink their data access strategies. All at once there is an entirely new language and a new set of data access interfaces to learn and incorporate into application designs. The purpose of these books are to make the choice and implementation of the best of those technologies far easier. They do this through working examples and numerous discussions of what works and what doesn’t. Vaughn's Best Practices are the techniques that developers need to know because they cause the least amount of overhead, problems, and confusion--for the developer, the system, and the team. While some are quite simple to implement, other Best Practices require considerable thought and forethought to enable. These are developers' books--full of hints, tips, and notes passed on from those who show the medals and scars of battles won and lost.

About the Authors:

William R. (Bill) Vaughn retired from Microsoft in August of 2000. He is currently the president of Beta V Corporation (www.betav.com), devoted to providing comprehensive training and technical content to the Visual Basic data access developer community. He has taught, written, lectured, sold, supported, designed, coded, managed, and cried over mainframe and microcomputer systems and software for 30 years. He worked at Microsoft for 14 years, where he held positions ranging from writing, teaching, and managing trainers at the Microsoft University (MSU) to being Visual Basic Enterprise Product Manager. During his last two years at Microsoft, he worked with the Internal Technical Education group lecturing to Microsoft developers. While there he developed and taught courses on SQL Server, Visual Basic, data architectures, and ActiveX Data Objects (ADO).

Peter D. Blackburn studied Computer Science at Cambridge University in England, and has worked for more than 12 years as Lead Consultant Developer on Corporate and Local Government disconnected and distributed database systems. In addition to his roles as CEO of Boost Data Ltd (www.boost.net), and CTO of International Network Technologies Organization Ltd, Peter is also a member of the Apress Editorial Team.