Although Database Programming with Visual Basic.NET can be used as a reference book - thanks to its many listings and tables - it's really intended to be a book that any serious VB programmer who needs to do database programming should read cover to cover. Microsoft MVP author Carsten Thomsen takes developers through all the data access aspects of Visual Studio.NET with sample code in VB .NET. This includes how to create the various database items, such as databases, tables, constraints, database projects, and so on, both from Visual Basic.NET IDE, but also programatically. Readers progressively build a complete user management system that includes SQL Server (or MS Access), Active Directory, and MessageQueue. About the author: Carsten Thomsen is a Danish national who currently holds the MCSE and MCSD Microsoft certifications. He's also a Microsoft MVP in Visual Basic, recognition he first received in August 1999. Carsten has been programming in VB since the launch of VB 3.0 and he specializes in data access.