Beginning VB 2005 Databases: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: From Novice to Professional)

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Beginning Visual Basic 2005 Databases teaches you everything you need to know about relational databases, SQL, and ADO.NET 2.0, giving you a sound start in developing console and Windows database applications. The book also includes chapters on the new SQL Server XML data type and the forthcoming LINQ enhancements to the next version of Visual Basic.

In addition to teaching you database basics like using SQL to communicate with databases, this book provides you with detailed, code-practical techniques to access data in VB 2005 across a range of coding situations. Code-heavy and full of practical detail, this book has been fully revised and upgraded for .NET 2.0 and offers you the best contemporary practice in this core programming area, so that you'll find yourself using it in nearly all your .NET projects.

Provides step-by-step instructions on how to install and configure necessary tools
Presents all essential SQL query and update concepts and syntax, so you needn't have prior familiarity with relational databases or SQL
Describes how to use ADO.NET transactions, exceptions, and events
Covers ADO.NET features for handling XML, text, and binary data within a VB 2005 context
Explains all concepts through straightforward code examples

Beginning ASP.NET Databases Using VB.NET

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Beginning ASP.NET Databases Using VB.NET
John Kauffman , Fabio Claudio Ferracchiati , Brian Matsik , Eric N. Mintz , Jan D. Narkiewicz , Kent Tegels , Donald Xie , John West , Jesudas Chinnathampi , and James Greenwood
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ASIN: 076454375X

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What is this book about?

For a web site to offer its users an experience that improves on that of newspapers or textbooks, it needs a way to change the information it contains dynamically - and that means it needs access to a data source. Through the combination of ASP.NET and ADO.NET, Microsoft provides everything necessary to access, read from, and write to a database, and then allow web users to view and manipulate that data from a web browser. In this book, we'll show you how it's done.

What does this book cover?

Packed with clear explanations and hands-on examples, Beginning ASP.NET Databases contains everything you'll need on your journey to becoming a confident, successful programmer of data-driven web sites. In particular, we'll look at:

Connecting to common data sources, including SQL Server and MS Access
Reading data with data reader and dataset objects
Creating and deleting records, and editing data
Displaying data with ASP.NET's web server controls
Writing and using stored procedures from VB.NET code
Placing your data access code in reusable class libraries

The book closes with a real-world case study that consolidates the tutorials throughout the book into a practical result.

Who is this book for?

To use this book, you need a computer running either Windows 2000 or Windows XP Professional Edition. The examples it contains will not run on Windows XP Home Edition.

This book is for people who have some experience of programming ASP.NET with Visual Basic .NET, are familiar with the operation of the .NET Framework, and want to learn how to use ASP.NET to make data-centric web applications. No prior knowledge of database programming is necessary.

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What is this book about?

What does this book cover?

Connecting to common data sources, including SQL Server and MS Access
Reading data with data reader and dataset objects
Creating and deleting records, and editing data
Displaying data with ASP.NET's web server controls
Writing and using stored procedures from VB.NET code
Placing your data access code in reusable class libraries

The book closes with a real-world case study that consolidates the tutorials throughout the book into a practical result.

Who is this book for?

To use this book, you need a computer running either Windows 2000 or Windows XP Professional Edition. The examples it contains will not run on Windows XP Home Edition.

Customer Reviews:

Good For Additional Practice.......2005-11-13

I've recently finished building all the examples in this book from scratch, using both EditPlus and VS.NET2K3 on my workstation, and storing and testing the apps on my Win2K3/SQL2K server. Once I got the security settings and connection strings figured out, I was able to get all the examples to run properly.

This book can provide good additional practice for beginners to ASP.NET, after you've been through an introductory book, like Wrox's "Beginning ASP.NET with VB.NET 2003" (ISBN 0764557076), or it's C#.NET 2K3 equivalent, ISBN 0764557084.

The book is OK as far as it goes, but you have to get all the way up to Chapter 11 before they show you an example of an object-oriented application that interacts with a relational database. And even then, they don't run through all the code in the book, they just give you the simplest files and tell you to download the rest of the example application from the web site.

One big hole in the book is that it really should have a chapter on setting up and testing connections to various databases under various server scenarios. It's just a personal opinion, but I've always felt that it's important to run a test app that tests the database connection and read/update functions before you start to build anything else.

Another drawback is that both the Beginning books, and this database book, have examples of ASP.NET server controls which don't quite render properly in any browser except Internet Explorer. Each of these books should have a section that discusses how to test in various browsers, and how to tweak the code so the pages will render properly in Firefox, Safari, etc.

One big advantage of this particular book, however, is that they don't rely on any server controls that are available only in the Web Matrix design environment and only seem to run in a Web Matrix server. This is one big flaw in the beginning books.

It's probably also important to note that no combination of the beginning books and/or this book will really get you quite up to the skill level you need to have in order to do real ASP.NET database application development. Once you're ready to start doing that, Wrox's "Professional ASP.NET 1.1" (ISBN 0764558900) is an excellent reference source. It's not a tutorial, but it's got pretty comprehensive coverage of most of the issues you'll need to know about. Go through one of the Beginning books, then do this book, then get the Pro book and you'll be ready to start developing.

Mixed Bag.......2005-01-24

My guess is that the reviewers who gave this text five stars did not actually attempt to reproduce working versions of all the examples. The quality of this book is mixed, as is common for the multiple-author Wrox editions. Some of the chapters are exceptional, and deserve five stars, having clear and logical instruction as well as examples that work as described. Chapters 5 and 6 are examples of the best authoring, and it appears that the author with last name Ferracchiati has written some of the best chapters in the book. Other chapters are nightmarish excursions through incomplete and poorly explained code, with examples that don't work, and with files missing in the downloaded code. Examples of such chapters are 7, 9 and 10, with chapter 10 being so incredibly bad that it has permanently soured my outlook toward this text. To summarize - there is some useful information in the book, but don't pay more than a few dollars for it, and don't buy it if your own time is worth more than a few dollars per hour.

Frustrating Experience.......2004-06-17

I've been reading some of the other reviews on this page, and I can't believe they are reading the same book. I have had problems running the code in several of these exercises, particularly with any code that has the DataGrid control. I've also noticed I'm not the only with this problem, since I have browsed the Wrox website forums and found others who were having the same problems with the code. I even submitted code from Chapter 3, page 67 to Microsoft Support, after receiving nothing but a blank page when I ran it. Microsoft noticed that the code was MISSING a required clause! The exercise in question is the FIRST exercise in the book. If the first exercise you attempt fails even though you made no typos, it's frustrating. I can easily see a novice programmer getting discouraged and giving up. I'm an experienced ASP programmer and even I was getting fed up!

I've been a big fan of other books by Wrox, but this one leaves a lot to be desired.

Easy to follow.......2004-06-15

I have enough programming books that if weighed would weigh as much as a car.

I love this book.

The best part is that I can read it and follow the examples without having to sit at my computer.

The key word in the title is beginning. I have found it to be a great foundation book on its subject matter.

The authors should get an atta boy for this one.

Great for Beginers... Good reference.......2004-05-14

This was my first book on .NET and I think it was a great tool to help me learn the basics of database programming. After building on the basic concepts it goes on into deeper knowledge and real world examples. This book was the only resource I used to not only get started but to continue using as my desktop reference. The book has lots of examples and it's very detailed on the explanations. The authors have a clear and concise style that does not overwhelm the reader with extremely complex details. I recommend this book if you are a beginer on ASP.NET and I also think it serves as a good refenrece.

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Run Away!!!
worthless book
Exceptional Book
Very Good but ..
Fantastic Book for learning VB.NET & ADO.NET

Beginning VB.NET Databases
Thearon Willis
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Book Description

What is this book about?

Beginning Visual Basic .NET Databases teaches Visual Basic .Net developers the concepts and skills necessary to write VB.Net database applications. This book touches on database design concepts but focuses on using ADO.Net to access and manipulate data in relational databases. While the book covers all data providers in ADO.Net briefly, the primary objective is to focus on using the OleDb provider for accessing Access databases and the SQL provider for accessing SQL Server databases.

What does this book cover?

Readers learn how to how to use queries, views, and stored procedures to efficiently access and manipulate data from their applications. We provide examples and instruction on accessing data from Windows applications, ASP.Net applications, as well as Web Services.

Specific coverage includes the following:

ODBC
OleDB
SQL, Stored Procedures, and Views
Creating Queries
Building a Data Access Class
Selecting and Updating Data
Accessing Data in ASP.NET
Working with XML Web Services

Customer Reviews:

Run Away!!!.......2007-08-29

If you want info now, don't buy this book. To get anything useful you have to read the whole the whole thing and do all the exercises. I prefer books that have many good clear examples that you can work through and learn from. I don't have time to use this type of book.

worthless book.......2005-11-24

Unless you have time to read all 600 pages and follow the instructions on each page, don't bother buying this book. Each chapter relies on what was accomplished in the previous chapter to demostrate a task. You cannot jump in, in the middle of the book and get anything out of it. Don't waste your time and money - there are much better books out there.

Exceptional Book.......2005-07-11

This book is exceptional. I have been programming for quite a while, so some of these are old hat, but the presentation is well thought out, easy to follow, quick to learn. Just an exceptional book for this topic.

Not only do you get to use ADO.NET on Access, but SQL Server and/or Oracle, as well as ASP.NET and Web Services. All without breaking into a sweat.

I had a question about one thing and I posted on the Wrox forum for the book. The author himself responded very quickly and we got it straightened out (it was on my end, not the book). I printed out the errata, but there are few errors in the book. Just an all around excellent book.

p.s., oh, yeah, I bought two copies -- one for work and one for home.

Very Good but .........2005-06-01

Very good book for beginners but the drawback of this book can be summarized in 2 points:

1) ASP.NET 2.0 beta release had been announced and it fly with coding to the next level where you can get rid of 70% your code lines (according to Microsoft !, and this includes database classes and objects which changed dramatically in ASP.NET 2.0 . So, why to learn an old version ;).

2) I rated this book "4" stars, because some of the examples in this book are very long where you get bored before you see your result.

Fantastic Book for learning VB.NET & ADO.NET.......2005-04-26

I am a novice Visual Basic programmer. I learned VB6 several years ago while I was still in college, but during the last six years working as a consultant, I haven't done any coding. Then a project came along where I was going to have to begin coding again. So, I looked into the latest version of Visual Basic, which is Visual Basic.Net 2003 or 1.1. What I didn't realize is that VB6 and Visual Basic.Net are not very similar at all. The biggest difference that I found was that VB.Net is truly object oriented while VB6 is not. Anyway, I needed to learn VB.NET quickly in order to develop an application that generated reports for my client. As a result, I also needed to learn ADO.NET in order to work with the database, which stored all of the data.

I bought a ton of books on both VB.NET and ADO.NET and most of them were terrible. The other books that I purchased provided either no coverage on VB.NET and ADO.NET or it contained code examples didn't work correctly when I created them. The biggest reason that most of the code samples didn't work correctly was because a lot of the books on these subjects, especially ADO.NET were written using the first release of this development tool, which was Visual Studio.NET 2002 or 1.0. Therefore, I found that I kept buying books trying to find something that would provide me with an introduction to VB.NET with a significant emphasis on ADO.NET.

Finally, I came across this book. While I am only about half way through it, I can honestly say that it's the best book I've found so far. Now, as I said initially, I would consider myself a novice VB.NET programmer, so I did need a book that would allow me to refresh my programming skills as well as introduce me to database programming with ADO.NET, since I had no experience with ADO, DAO, etc. This book is great because while it is geared toward newbies, it's not overly simple. The examples are all real world scenarios that you would use if you were in my current predicament. If you have no VB experience whatsoever, then you may want to choose a simpler book that focuses solely on VB. But, if you have some experience with VB6 and need to learn VB.NET and ADO.NET, this is an excellent starting point. The best part about this book is that it was written in 2004, which made me believe that the author used this in conjunction with VB.NET and ADO.NET 1.1 and so far, everything has worked perfectly. So, if you're in a similar situation, then please take my advice and buy this book first rather than spend hundreds of dollars on other books that won't help you at all.

Beginning VB .NET 1.1 Databases: From Novice to Professional

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Plenty of theory, few VB examples
Comprehensive walkthrough
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Beginning VB .NET 1.1 Databases: From Novice to Professional
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This is a book for beginning and intermediate VB.NET students who want to learn the core of VB.NET: database programming, and they want to learn by going on a journey with Peter Wright at the height of his powers.

Using the same iconoclastic drive that launched Peter Wright to a best selling author with his ‘Beginning VB6’ book from Wrox, Peter is back in business with a return to his best form. There are an array of VB.NET database books on the market, but Peter offers more than just a technical walkthrough: he takes the reader through a personal journey to expertise in VB.NET database programming.

Following the classical formula of a fast-paced tutorial, and the classical formula of mythological legend, this is a programming book that will stand out from the crowd in this busy space.

VB.NET is a powerful programming .NET programming language that is often considered the ‘workhorse’ of programming – and database programming in VB.NET accounts for a huge amount of the total programming effort taking place today. To understand VB.NET, and VB.NET database programming, is to be able to meet the every-day challenges faced in most programming projects today. Peter Wright enlivens this ‘workhorse’ topic with his own special style to bring learner and student programmers where they need to be on their way to expertise in today’s VB.NET programming jobs.

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Beginning VB .NET Databases: From Novice to Professional is a book for beginning and intermediate VB.NET students who want to learn the core of VB.NET: database programming, and they want to learn by going on a journey with Peter Wright at the height of his powers. Using the same iconoclastic drive that launched Peter Wright to a best selling author with his `Beginning VB6' book from the former Wrox Press Ltd, Peter is back in business with a return to his best form with Apress! There are an array of VB.NET database books on the market, but Peter offers more than just a technical walkthrough: he takes the reader through a personal journey to expertise in VB.NET database programming. Following the classical formula of a fast-paced tutorial, and the classical formula of mythological legend, this is a programming book that will stand out from the crowd in this busy space. VB.NET is a powerful programming .NET programming language that is often considered the `workhorse' of programming - and database programming in VB.NET accounts for a huge amount of the total programming effort taking place today. To understand VB.NET, and VB.NET database programming, is to be able to meet the every-day challenges faced in most programming projects today. Peter Wright enlivens this `workhorse' topic with how own special style to bring learner and student programmers where they need to be on their way to expertise in today's VB.NET programming jobs.

Customer Reviews:

Plenty of theory, few VB examples.......2006-02-17

I purchased this book with the hope of finding useful snippets of VB code for reading and writing to databases. Unfortunately, while there is plenty of discussion on the SQL foundations for working with databases, there is little help here for beginners using the "dive right in" approach.

Comprehensive walkthrough.......2005-05-12

This is a well thought out and written walkthough of database access in VB.NET. There are a lot of screenshots and graphics, but it works well for the methodical prose that guides you through, what on it's face seems simple but can get complex as you go to professional grade database applications.

It starts with an introduction to the the complete system, then goes into user interface work, database design, queries, transactions, and finally advanced topics.

As the title implies this is a book for beginners. There isn't enough advanced material in here for professional developers, and the pace of the book is too slow for those readers. But if you are just getting started, and VB.NET is your database weapon of choice, then this could be a great book for you.

focus on VB to ADO to databases.......2005-04-02

The book is somewhat of a sister to a recent "Beginning ASP.NET 1.1 Databases", with that book's author being one of the authors of this text. There is little here on the elementary, standalone syntax and usages of VB.NET 1.1. That is adequately covered elsewhere. The emphasis is on hooking to databases. Where these are SQL-based, in most practical cases. The text gives much detail about constructing in VB the various SQL commands to be sent to the database server, as queries or statements. And, of course, to parse the results into something meaningful under VB.

You are also offered more. Standing between your VB application and the database is ADO. Microsoft has devices the latter as a uniform front end to different databases, to simplify access. Well worth knowing.

Now if your application also involves a web UI, then you can refer to a section on integrating VB with ASP for making those web pages. For completeness, it was added to the book. Though keep in mind that this ASP section is a less crucial part of the text, compared to learning about ADO.

Beginning Visual Web Programming in VB .NET: From Novice to Professional

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Excellent Beginning Book
A programmer looks at Beginning Viusal Web Programming
Solid introduction to ASP.NET programming with VB
covers XML and Web Services

Beginning Visual Web Programming in VB .NET: From Novice to Professional
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With this book you'll learn the fundamentals of the web environment and how Visual Studio .NET makes it accessible to VB programmers. You'll build a working website that demonstrates all the elements of a VB web application. Author Daniel Cazzulino takes a step-by-step approach to each example to explore the essential technologies and how VS.NET helps to integrate them into a highly interactive, attractive web application. Highlights Include: ·Create dynamic web pages with ASP.NET web forms and web server controls ·Display and manipulate data using ADO.NET and Visual Studio .NET components ·How to persist state in different ways, within the "stateless" web environment ·Create XML files and XML schema, and how to use them for data transfer ·Integrate your web applications with others, through web services ·Make your application more secure, via the security features in ASP.NET and IIS ·How to eliminate bugs and unexpected failures, through effective debugging and exception-handling techniques ·Improve the performance of your application and prepare it for release

Customer Reviews:

Excellent Beginning Book.......2005-09-26

Beginning Visual Web Programming in VB.Net is well worth a read. The book is very straight forward and the examples are such that they guide you through quite easily so that the reader can follow along without much trouble. Chapters 7 and 8 are really nice with their XML information and examples. XML is great if you need a pages that load fast and are efficient.The descriptions that come in these chapters increase your understanding of why it is such an important part of the overall structure. MSDE I personally find can be a bit of a pain when setting it up but with this particular book things seemed to go ok. Overall the book is definately worth reading and will only help in your knowledge of .NET programming.

A programmer looks at Beginning Viusal Web Programming.......2005-08-04

Book was very well written. Author effectively communicates with novice users in a 'For Dummies' style without being patronizing or condescending. By 'For Dummies' style, I mean that he literally defines which menu option to click, etc. in a similar manner to the popular series.

Intermediate to Advanced users will probably find this book to be a bit unwieldy, not because of the material presented but because of all of the detail given for the benefit of the novice user.

I would absolutely recommend it for someone just getting their feet wet in the VB.Net web development arena.

Solid introduction to ASP.NET programming with VB.......2005-05-12

I'm really impressed by the thoughtfulness of the organization and writing in this book. Where the reader has questions that require deeper explanation the exposition is there. The content is well researched and the author has obviously spent the time to do some complex information distillation for us. An ideal book for anyone looking to start with VB.NET programming. And well worth the look for those already using the platform who want to broaden their understanding.

covers XML and Web Services.......2005-03-27

The title says "beginning" but the authors actually take you to very important topics that are at the forefront of much Internet activity. Namely XML and Web Services.

The book goes through a lot of necessary but mundane stuff concerning user interfaces, server control and ADO.NET. Yeah, to know VB.NET, you need this material. But more significant is the long exposition on XML. It is now a de facto standard for markup of structured data. Within the entire .NET portfolio, it is pervasive. And also in the J2EE world. The book shows how Microsoft has integrated web development and VB.NET tightly into using XML. Well worth understanding.

The other big buzz is about Web Services. Here the discussion is not as indepth. The basics are covered. But Web Services Description Language is only tangentially invoked. And what is seeming to be a more powerful language, Business Process Execution Language, doesn't even rate a mention. Perhaps this is why the title says "beginning"? There could well be a sequel in the works, to cover these.

Beginning VB.NET XML: Essential XML Skills for VB.NET Programmers

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Waste of $$
Could have been a great book
Poor content structure, very poor code samples
Good practical book
Not very organized

Beginning VB.NET XML: Essential XML Skills for VB.NET Programmers
Steven Livingstone , and Stewart Fraser
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Extensible Markup Language (XML) has been perhaps the biggest buzzword in application development for several years and now Microsoft has taken XML into the core of its .NET Framework. This book is aimed at teaching XML (and related technologies such as XPath, XSLT, and XML Schema) to beginning and intermediate Visual Basic .NET developers who want to understand what all the fuss is about.

Over the course of the book readers will develop a good appreciation of not only what XML is, and how to handle it in Visual Basic .NET, but also how to use XML to build applications to run on a single desktop, single web server or distributed, multi-platform web services, in ways that have been extremely difficult to achieve with previous technologies.

To reinforce the core concepts, the book makes use of numerous individual examples along with two case studies. Firstly, there is an examination of how different XML based approaches can be used in the development of a contact application. The complexity of the project develops as the reader's knowledge increases through the book. Secondly, we dedicate a full chapter to describing the use of XML and a SQL Server database in the implementation of a web-based news portal.

Customer Reviews:

Waste of $$.......2004-01-18

If I could give this book negative 100 stars, I would. I could say a lot, but a quote from page 235 about the XmlDocument class (not some ancillary class, mind you, a PRIMARY class for the topic) should sum it up: "There are some properties and methods we won't discuss here...so for specific information on these look at the MSDN documentation." WHAT!!!!!! That is only one of several times the reader is instructed to use MSDN, as if we all hadn't been there before we got this book. I might understand that if this was not such a narrowly focused topic, but XML specifically for VB.NET is not exactly an undertaking to write the history of the world. This book is so bad it actually makes me angry at the people who wrote and published it. It's a fraud to put this book on the shelf.

Could have been a great book.......2003-07-01

I am only on chapter 3 and have actually enjoyed the subject up to this point but I don't believe I have ever read a techbook with so many gross mistakes. For example, page 76 states "ANSI does use a BOM" when in fact it should have said "ANSI does not use a BOM" which is easily concluded from prior text. Also, the very first code example in ADO is horribly written. One gets the impression after awhile that this is the rough first draft of the actual intended book. Wrox doesn't even list this book as one of their products on their website and I have yet to find the public errata website for this book.
My criticism notwithstanding, the book could have been a great book had someone taken the time to clean it up. I get the impression someone pushed these poor guys into getting this thing "on the street" way before its time.

Poor content structure, very poor code samples.......2003-06-18

The point for a beginner's book is to layout concepts clearly and to make their application evident through clear and COMPLETE examples. The examples in this book are fragmented and there is no proper reference to portions of code that are key to program segments working. I have been programming for 10 years and I cannot follow the struture and examples clearly. Bottom line, there is poor content structure, very poor code samples and poor explaination of concepts, especially for a beginner's book but even for an expert programmer.

I am taking this one back to borders. It should never have left the press in the first place.

Good practical book.......2003-06-17

Showed some good practical examples. Maybe not enough to learn XML technolgies on its own, but it showsed how they can be used in .Net which was good.

Not very organized.......2003-03-20

This must be my most disappointing WROX book so far:

- The authors haven't done a very good job of integrating their texts. It is sometimes very obvious that different persons wrote parts of the same chapter. Some information is repeated unnecessarily, other information is omitted.

- Like the other reviewer said, sometimes the title of a chapter doesn't cover the content very well. Also, some XML standards aren't explained very well, and text seems to go on forever, instead of explaning it with a bit of code.

- My book fell apart in my hands after only a few weeks use. This was a first for a Wrox book for me (I own about ten). I tried to contact WROX about this, but I got a canned reply, stating that they no longer do support through email. All they do now is the P2P forums, and code download... Thanx WROX!

- WROX' standards seem to have slipped lately. It used to be that any book from WROX could be bought unseen, since they were of a good quality no matter what the subject. Lately things have slipped badly, and to make things worse, prices have gone up.

I won't be assuming the 'only good books come from WROX' mantra anymore. I have been impressed with the Microsoft books lately, and may switch to them.

Beginning Asp.net Databases Using Vb.net
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Beginning Asp.net Databases Using Vb.net
John Kauffman
Manufacturer: Wrox Press Ltd.
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