I always felt that my knowledge of ADO is limited or scattered. Although there are some new
data access technologies like
LINQ and
Entity framework, personally I think as a programmer I must be familiar with older technologies for two reasons; first I might come across old codes for maintenance and second to fully apericate new features brouth by new technologies. That is why I started a research to find good books about
ADO.Net 2.0 and by far my favorite is "Pro ADO.NET 2.0" ISBN: 1-59059-512-2 by Mr. Sahil Malik which is published by
Apress. Here is a link where you can by this book:
Pro ADO.Net on Amazon.com
This book starts by presenting a birds-eye view of the planet ADO and digging into diferente aspects of connected and disconnected fashion data access. I strongly suggest this book to whom wants to have a solid understanding of ADO.