Serious ADO: Universal Data Access with Visual Basic

• Helps developers gain firm control of Microsoft's premier data
  access technology with comprehensive explanations and real code
  examples
• Provides detailed treatment of important topics
  including client cursors, disconnected Recordsets, Data Shaping,
  Recordset persistence and marshalling, and MTS/COM+
• Accompanying CD-ROM contains VB programs to
  compliment each chapter

ADO is Microsoft's data access technology for
application developers and Visual Basic is the programming language
now at the heart of many application and Web servers.  In this
new book, Rob Macdonald offers developers comprehensive coverage of
both ADO and VB and practical development wisdom to increase
productivity.  After examining ADO and key concepts in ADO
programming, the author tackles use of ADO in real world development
situations including Internet and data mining scenarios.  Macdonald also covers the use of Microsoft Transaction Server
(MTS)
and COM+ to create transactional component based systems, and how to
use ADO to write components that really benefit from MTS and COM+.

Contents

• ADO's Big Idea
  

ADO IN DEPTH

• ADO Unplugged
  
• Recirdsets with SQL Data Sources
  
• Explicit Connections
  
• Explicit Commands
  
• The ADO Event Model and Asynchronous Processing
  
• Disconnected Recordsets
  
• Recorset Recursion and Data Shaping
  
• Working with Documents Records and Streams
  
• The ADO Data Definition Language and Security Model (ADOX)
  
• Creating Simple Providers

ADO AT LARGE

• Binding and Data-aware Objects
  
• The Data Environment
  
• ADO, DNA, MTS, and COM+
  
• RDS and DHTML
  
• Multidimensionnal ADO (ADOMD)