this print for content only—size & color not accurate spine = 0.835" 440 page count Books for professionals By professionals ® Beginning VB 2008 Databases: From Novice to Professional Dear Reader, This book focuses on accessing databases using VB 2008 as a development tool in conjunction with the new release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5. This book will walk you through all the aspects of programming a database with SQL Server 2005, pulling the data into an application developed using VB 2008. As you work your way through this book, you get a chance to explore the concepts covered by creating sample applications in “Try It Out” sections, which will help you apply what you learn to your real-world applications. Following the sample applications, I explain each code statement in “How It Works” sections to help you understand the code. I hope that you will achieve not only knowledge of VB 2008, but also knowledge of SQL Server. I have targeted quite a few database concepts, from the basics to the key T-SQL features of SQL Server. This book will also help you to build your code competency in a gradual manner because I begin with the easy topics before moving on to the complex ones. This book starts from basic application development and goes over the concepts of LINQ and ADO.NET 3.5 and building applications with them. I believe that you will find this book to be an asset in enriching your VB database application development skills, and will provide you with new insights into using VB 2008 with SQL Server. Vidya Vrat Agarwal Vidya Vrat Agarwal, author of Beginning C# 2008 Databases: From Novice to Professional US $44.99 Shelve in Programming Languages/ Visual Basic User level: Beginner–Intermediate Agarwal, Huddleston VB 2008 Databases The eXperT’s Voice ® in .neT Beginning VB 2008 Databases From Novice to Professional cyan MaGenTa yelloW Black panTone 123 c Vidya Vrat Agarwal and James Huddleston Companion eBook Available THE APRESS ROADMAP Accelerated VB 2008 Beginning VB 2008 Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in VB 2008, Second Edition Beginning VB 2008 Databases Visual Basic 2008 Recipes Pro VB 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform, Third Edition Pro WPF with VB 2008 www.apress.com SOURCE CODE ONLINE Companion eBook See last page for details on $10 eBook version ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-947-1 ISBN-10: 1-59059-947-0 9 781590 599471 5 4 4 9 9 James Huddleston Beginning [...]... assume a reader must have before moving on with the chapters This book is a must for any application developer who wants to interact with databases using VB 2008 and development tools What This Book Covers This book covers Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2005, VB 2008, LINQ, and ADO NET 3.5 All these tools and technologies are explained using various concepts and code examples I have also tried to map... dotnetpassion.blogspot.com 9470ch01final.qxd 2/21/08 2:59 PM CHAPTER Page 1 1 Getting Your Tools T his book is designed to help you learn how to access databases with VB 2008, previously known as VB 9.0 and VB Orcas The development tools used throughout this book are Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (code-named Visual Studio Orcas) and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, both of which work with Microsoft NET Framework... 3/15/08 2:52 PM Page xxvii Introduction A s most of the real-world applications interact with the data stored in relational databases, so every VB programmer needs to know how to access data This book specifically covers how to interact with SQL Server 2005 databases using VB 2008 This book also covers LINQ and ADO.NET 3.5, the most exciting features of NET Framework 3.5 The chapters that focus on... the next higher-level chapter Who This Book Is For If you are an application developer who likes to interact with databases using C#, then this book is for you—it covers programming SQL Server 2005 using VB 2008 This book does not require or even assume that you have a sound knowledge of VB 2005, SQL Server 2000, and database concepts I have written this book in such a way that, even if you don’t have... Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, the latest version of Visual Studio, provides functionality for building WPF, WCF, WF, and LINQ applications by using VB 2008 or other NET languages Visual Studio 2008 targets multiple NET Framework versions by allowing you to build and maintain applications for NET 2.0 and NET... which was a subset of SQL Server 2000 MSDE databases cannot be used with SSE, but they can be upgraded to SSE databases Now that you know a little about these development tools, we’ll show you how to obtain and install them and the sample databases you’ll need to work through this book In this chapter, we’ll cover the following: • Obtaining Visual Studio 2008 • Installing SQL Server Management Studio... reviews the NET Preparation Kits available at www.ucertify.com He has contributed as technical reviewer to many books published by Apress; he is also the author of another Apress book titled Beginning C# 2008 Databases: From Novice to Professional Vidya lives with his beloved wife Rupali and lovely daughter Vamika (“Pearly”) He believes that nothing will turn into a reality without them He is the follower... Express • Installing the Northwind sample database • Installing the AdventureWorks sample database Obtaining Visual Studio 2008 As mentioned previously, working through the examples in this book requires Visual Studio 2008 to be installed on your PC To find information about Visual Studio 2008 and where to get the setup CDS and so forth, go to http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio You can also directly download... and Greek from the University of Pennsylvania and a juris doctor degree from the University of Pittsburgh A technical reviewer of dozens of computer books, including Beginning C# Objects: From Concepts to Code (Apress, 2004), he finds databases an endlessly fascinating area of work and almost as intellectually rewarding as his hobby: translating Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey from the original Greek xxi... Express Edition is the relational database subset of SQL Server 2005 that provides virtually all the online transaction processing (OLTP) capabilities of SQL Server 2005, supports databases up to 4GB in size (and up to 32,767 databases per SQL Server Express, or SSE, instance), and can handle hundreds of concurrent users SSE doesn’t include SQL Server’s data warehousing and Integration Services components . ROADMAP Accelerated VB 2008 Beginning VB 2008 Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in VB 2008, Second Edition Beginning VB 2008 Databases Visual Basic 2008 Recipes Pro VB 2008 and. Beginner–Intermediate Agarwal, Huddleston VB 2008 Databases The eXperT’s Voice ® in .neT Beginning VB 2008 Databases From Novice to Professional cyan