The topic combination of VB .NET and ADO.NET is unbeatable. VB .NET is the most popular language in which to code. And, every developer needs to understand ADO.NET to allow data to be accessed from a Web site. In this book Developers will be shown numerouse code examples that will illustr4ate how to program database driven applications within the .NET Framework. The book is aimed at both established and new VB Developers. Important topics covered include: Visual Studio development environment, ASP.NET applications, Windows Forms application, using VB .NET with ADO.NET, complex queries, security, COM interop., and application deployment.
About the Author
F. Scott Barker holds a bachelor of science in computer science and has worked as a developer in the database field for more than 16 years, first with Clipper, and then with Visual Basic, SQL Server, and Microsoft Access for the past 10 years. Scott has already created and deployed a number of ASP.NET Web sites for his clients.
Working at Microsoft for two years, Scott was a member of the Microsoft Access and FoxPro teams. Since leaving, he has been a contractor with Microsoft developing in-house tools used throughout Microsoft. With his company, Applications Plus, Scott has also been doing contract development for many Fortune 500 companies, developing in ASP.NET, Visual Basic .NET, C#, Visual Basic/Access/Office, and SQL Server.
Scott has trained for Application Developers Training Company and others all around the U.S. and is a frequent speaker at Microsoft conferences throughout the U.S., Canada, South Asia, and Europe. Through his classes and conferences, Scott has trained thousands of developers.
Scott is a writer for a number of development magazines and is the author of F. Scott Barker's Microsoft Access 2002 Power Programming, published by Sams, and Access 97 Power Programming, published by Que.
