joelmeaders
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I want to move into creating Business/Data driven applications in VB.Net from MS Access. I would consider myself advanced in Relational Database Design (MySQL, Access, MSSQL) VBA (Recordsets, fully custom CRUD operations using SQL, unbound forms, office automation, classes, basic multi-tier setup on and on).
I've gotten a couple VB.Net 2013 books, Books on Entity Framework 6 and ADO.Net and none of them have good examples of real-world application development, issues, and complications. I cannot stand that every book focuses on bound forms and CD/Book collections. I want to know best practices such as when to use a try-catch-finally block vs if-then "On Error". I want to know whether I can still use old fashioned coded SQL queries with data adapters/readers or have to use linq-sql or entity framework and why. Reporting would be great as well though I have some ideas in the works for integrated CSS3+jQuery report generation.
What I want is a recommendation for a book or very in depth tutorial that deals with real-world application development that has real needs and scenarios from start to deployment, possibly even updates to app and DB after the fact.
I've gotten a couple VB.Net 2013 books, Books on Entity Framework 6 and ADO.Net and none of them have good examples of real-world application development, issues, and complications. I cannot stand that every book focuses on bound forms and CD/Book collections. I want to know best practices such as when to use a try-catch-finally block vs if-then "On Error". I want to know whether I can still use old fashioned coded SQL queries with data adapters/readers or have to use linq-sql or entity framework and why. Reporting would be great as well though I have some ideas in the works for integrated CSS3+jQuery report generation.
What I want is a recommendation for a book or very in depth tutorial that deals with real-world application development that has real needs and scenarios from start to deployment, possibly even updates to app and DB after the fact.