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Database Programming With C# by Carsten Thomsen
Database Programming with C# can be used as a reference book - thanks to its many listings and tables. It's really intended to be a book that any serious C# programmer who needs to do database programming should read cover-to-cover. It will take you through all the data access aspects of Visual Studio .NET with example code in C#. This includes how to create the various database items, such as databases, tables, constraints, database projects, stored procedures, views, triggers, and more from within the Visual Studio .NET IDE, but also programmatically. Readers will learn to build on the same example code from the beginning of the book until you wrap it up in the very last chapter. The example application is a complete user management system that includes SQL Server, Active Directory, and Message Queuing.
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First published April 5, 2002
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January 21, 2008
Carsten Thomsen, Database Programming with C# (Apress, 2002)
Now this is a C# book (unlike the last one I reviewed here). Thomsen gets into the nuts and bolts from the get-go and starts the reader developing a real application. He gives us the underlying application logic, explains how it works (and tries to instill good coding practices along the way), all with an eye towards actual development rather than stand-alone sample programs that teach only a very few.
I wish he'd spent more time in the book's final chapter going over some of the code explicitly rather than just referring us to the code in the online zip files, but what's here is pretty fine. *** ½
Now this is a C# book (unlike the last one I reviewed here). Thomsen gets into the nuts and bolts from the get-go and starts the reader developing a real application. He gives us the underlying application logic, explains how it works (and tries to instill good coding practices along the way), all with an eye towards actual development rather than stand-alone sample programs that teach only a very few.
I wish he'd spent more time in the book's final chapter going over some of the code explicitly rather than just referring us to the code in the online zip files, but what's here is pretty fine. *** ½
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