APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT IS USUALLY faced with several critical factors: time to market, ever-increasing quality, and cost of development. Time to market is critical in that any project that an individual or company may have in mind is probably already in the works elsewhere. When that is the case, everything comes down to being the first to deliver . . . even if it falls short. A Gartner Research study showed that competing products offering similar features will take the most mar- ket share if released sooner. The study further added that the product released first, even with fewer features,...

Building Client/Server Applications with VB .NET: An Example-Driven Approach is based on Release 1.0 of the .NET Framework / Release 1.0 of Visual Studio .NET + .NET Framework Service Pack 1. Jeff Levinson walks readers through how to write a complete application--no "snippets" of code--and will show readers examples of how, when, and why to perform a task. Building Client/Server Applications with VB .NET: An Example-Driven Approach is the manual on software development for enterprise application development.

"Applied ADO.NET: Building Data-Driven Solutions" is written for programmers by two programmers that have put ADO.NET to work creating live applications, offering real-world knowledge from hard won experience. "Applied ADO.NET: Building Data-Driven Solutions" provides extensive coverage of ADO.NET technology including ADO.NET internals, namespaces, classes, and interfaces. Where most books cover only SQL and OLE DB data providers, Mahesh Chand and David Talbot cover SQL, OLE DB, ODBC data providers and the latest additions to ADO.NET: Oracle, MySQL, and XML .NET data providers. Chand and...