disappointing , frustrating and sloppy

I worked about half way through this book and then gave up.

While I will say the choice of examples seems good, the explanations are inadequate or missing. I did the entire chapter on sqlAdapters and could not understand what they are for. I opened up another book which explained simply that the point of an adapter is to encapsulate four sql commands, select, delete,insert & update. Oh yeah! Of course!

The examples are shoddy - many typos. Sometimes the C# code is not presented in the text. The book says its available in the downloadable content. Not always. C# is the stepchild in this book.

The examples use a wide variety of editing tools when it could have stuck with just one such as Visual Studio. I really dont need to master all these tools at the same time as I am trying to digest ADO basics.

I am an experienced C# programmer yet I wasted several hours trying to get one of the examples to work. I gave up at that point.

If you know enough not to get snagged on the errors in this book then you dont need the book. If you are a beginner in ADO, you will get very frustrated. Why pay money for that?

Other Reviews

• disappointing , frustrating and sloppy
• It matches my expectation
• Very shallow, buggy code samples, has questions/exercises