The following reviews are from Visual Basic 2005 How to Program. 3/e (nearing completion), where we have that chapter back from review. If the chapter is not back from review yet, we've included the comments from the sister book Visual C# How to Program, 2/e. The bookwide testimonials are also from the sister book—we’ll have these for the VB book shortly.
Chapter 20 Databases, ADO.NET and SQL (from the sister C# book)
"Deitel does a superb job of clearly integrating the theory of relational databases and SQL with the application of ADO.NET!"—Harlan Brewer, University of Cincinnati
"An excellent demonstration of how C# can leverage ADO.NET and XML to create database applications; in the process, students are given a solid SQL tutorial."—Gavin Osborne, Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology
"Great walkthrough of Visual Studio tools support for working with data and forms! Good intro to SQL."—John Varghese, UBS
Chapter 21 ASP.NET (from the sister C# book)
"Absolutely amazing read! Each code example is relevant, each definition well thought out, and the flow of the chapter is perfect."—Stacey Yasenka - Software Developer at Hyland Software - C# MVP
"This chapter provides excellent coverage of the most important features and techniques of developing ASP.NET 2.0 applications, with plenty of sample code."—Peter Bromberg - Senior Architect Merrill Lynch - C# MVP
Chapter 22 Web Services (from the sister C# book)
"Web services were made easy through this complex chapter."—Stacey Yasenka - Software Developer at Hyland Software - C# MVP
"This is one of the clearest tutorials on Web services I’ve read, and with great examples."—Gavin Osborne, Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology
Chapter 23 Networking (from the sister C# book)
"The chapter on Networking is one of the best, most concise chapters on this subject in any book I have every seen."—Peter Bromberg, Senior Architect Merrill Lynch and C# MVP
"The exercises were almost too much fun! Hangman was particularly entertaining. Excellent!"—James Huddleston, Independent Consultant
"I am very impressed by the .NET remoting section you have added to this chapter, especially with the “real world” weather example."—Chadi Boudiab, Georgia Perimiter College
"The chapter is a good description of networking in C#. The web browser example is really nice."—Pavel Tsekov, Caesar BSC