Re: Help
- From: "Larry Smith" <no_spam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:34:12 -0400
I am a new VS and C# developer with 20 plus years programming experience
and I am finding the database stuff incredibly frustrating. I have read
programming c# 3.0 pretty much cover to cover, the c# cookbook does not
seem to have any database stuff (it is not obvious anyway). Even
committing a record is counter intuitive needing help from the
newsgroup. Despite all the clever gui stuff I would not give VS a high
rating for DB programming.
I need a fast start on database programming and interactions with
databinding. What would be the best place to read up on this so that I
am not struggling. What is the best place to post questions? I seem to
get no response on
microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.windowsforms.databinding
Please help me with some pointers, I have to deliver a solution urgently.
With that much experience you should be able to pick it up reasonably
quickly with the right book but you're obviously not going to become a
master overnight. That said, I have as much experience as yourself and a few
years ago I picked up a copy of "C# Complete" published by Sybex (very
inexpensive). It's really just a series of chapters on different topics
written by different authors. Chapters 11-14 in my (older) copy are devoted
to ADO.NET and lo and behold, I was quite surprised at the breadth of
coverage. It really does tackle the core topics in very good detail
(including data binding) and after just a few hours of pouring through it I
was already very comfortable with things (and surprised at just how
informative it was). Note that I was also new to C# and .NET at the time. In
any case, I haven't looked at it in a long time but IIRC it was really more
for self-starters. New programmers will likely have a tougher time with it
and there are perhaps better books on the subject, I don't know. An
experienced developer should have little problem with it however though if
you're completely new to Windows programming then you may have more hurdles
then I did (having worked on MSFT platforms since Bill was barely out of his
parents garage). BTW, don't be too too hard on VS and DB programming in this
environment. It really is very well designed, only poorly documented
(something I rant about all the time). Also make sure you read up on
strongly-typed datasets which is discussed in the book as I recall. You'll
definitely want to use it. Good luck.
.
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