Book review: "Beginning ASP.NET 1.1 E-Commerce - From Novice to Professional"

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John — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:52:32 GMT

I've spent years trying to learn ADO.NET and ASP.NET to build an e-commerce site. I can say I've bought plenty of other books and videos - but they were all fragmented, full or errors and difficult to piece everything together.

I must say this book is EXCELLENT!

Christain's attention to detail and explanations is second to none. If there was an Authors Award he would win it hands down.

I am keeping an eye out to see if he writes a book on Visual Basic 2008 ASP.NET E-Commerce.

re: Book review: "Beginning ASP.NET 1.1 E-Commerce - From Novice to Professional"

Jeff Coon — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 15:36:00 GMT

Ooooh, excellent. Thanks for the best practices book info, Jason. I'll be picking this up at lunch!

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Dave Burke — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 02:54:00 GMT

Great review, Jeff. This may be the next nerd book I should buy. I appreciated Cristian's input here as well, another strong selling point.

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Cristian Darie — Sat, 02 Oct 2004 18:43:00 GMT

Jeff,

Good to hear you found the answers helpful. I have just one note regarding your answer. Many decisions you will make about the architecture of your application will be driven by the complexity of your application, and not necessarily about the expected traffic. A small e-commerce website can get much more traffic than a very complex web application with lots of features, etc. That's it, have fun playing with ASP.NET :)

re: Book review: "Beginning ASP.NET 1.1 E-Commerce - From Novice to Professional"

Jason Salas — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 23:01:00 GMT

Jeff, check out the book "ASP.NET Best Practices" or look for articles on DataReader vs. DataSet on MSDN or in ASPAlliance.com. I recall there being several such pieces written on the topic. Most ADO.NET books for ASP.NET will mention this at some point.

re: Book review: "Beginning ASP.NET 1.1 E-Commerce - From Novice to Professional"

Jeff Coon — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 16:10:00 GMT

Wow, excellent replies - thank you! I didn't realize when posing the question that DataReaders left the connection to the database open. Knowing that, I understand the reasoning for discouraging passing them between tiers. Were I writing only a single tier responsible for passing data, I wouldn't want to leave it up to another developer to close the connection to my database.

I can envision using the trick you provided to safely pass a DataReader for a personal project where I could be certain the DB connection would be closed, but any such applications I can think of wouldn't have the sort of traffic necessary to warrant the performance boost of a DataReader over a DataSet.

I'm finding the actual programming aspects of .NET fairly easy, but questions like this about best practices are tough to find answers to. I can Google up articles on how to code a DataReader and a DataSet, but it's much harder to find articles explaining when to use one or the other. (actually, it's probably easy for those particular objects, but I was just trying to illustrate a point about finding it hard to find articles on best practices) I guess the best way to learn that is just to keep reading as much as possible and asking questions.

Thanks again for the great replies.

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Jason Salas — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 11:22:00 GMT

Thanks Cristian! Both for the compliment and for helping Jeff with his query!