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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