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Summary: The best book on .net framework
Review: I have been reading tons of C# books and .net books for async programing. This book solved my problems in 1 hour. It has a lot info but still very concise, the always style of Oreily. I really hate those big books without any information. I am becoming a fan of the books with an animal picture on the cover:-)
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Summary: Signficant work, very well written.
Review: I have purchased, literally hundreds, and I mean hundreds of technology books over the last 20 years, and this may be the best.This work addresses not only how one builds software but why, and provides clear insight into the design goals of component technology from early Windows dll(s), to the current Microsoft .net Framework. This is the "Rosetta Stone" of Microsoft .net.
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Summary: The best .NET Book Ever
Review: I have to say that this is the best book on .NET for advance devlopers. All of the chapters in this book are awesome,but I specially like chapter3, that discuss the interface based programming in .NET. Only this chapter worth to keep this book. I never have seen such a good coverage of delegates and asychronous calls before in any other .NET book. Good job Mr. Juval Lowy.
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Summary: Best of the best.
Review: I just want to make one point. I bought and read about 40+ books over the last couple of years on .NET, and I am a proffesional programmer working on .NET every day. I will rank this book as the number 1 book among all those 40+ books I have. 6 stars!!!
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Summary: Buy this book now, with express shipping!!!
Review: I usually don't write book reviews. But, I had to give Lowy some props here. I've been coding .NET since Beta 1, and considered myself up-to-speed on the framework. However, I found myself learning something new in every chapter of this book. Sometimes the devil is in the details, and Lowy really gets into the nooks and crannies of .NET. A must read.
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Summary: Clear, deep, helpful, excellent
Review: I'm an MCSD, MCSE, and an MCDBA who owns many, many technical books. This is one of the very best technical books that I ever seen. The writing is extremely clear and goes into good depth. The book is dense with information and code samples are excellent. Throughout the book, the author offers many helpful hints and potential traps. Also, the comparisons between .NET and COM add a lot. The clarity of the writing slips a bit in chapter 10 (Remoting), but the author still does a fine job of explaining this intense subject.
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Summary: Fantastic Book
Review: If you want a real reference book for .Net programming, this is it. He goes into depth in explaining how things work. Especially liked his chapter on Multithreading. It is a gold-mine for a professional C# programmer.
PS. The guy who gave this book a low rating, probably hasn't done anything sophisticated with .Net yet. Hey, its a reference book and his writing style is clear and to the point.
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Summary: Terrific Cookbook and Reference Work
Review: Juval combines both an extensive reference work on the underlying mechanisms of the .NET system, and at the same time gives complete applications showing the abstractions he concisely presents. In addition, he is very friendly about replying to follow up emails on clarifications you may need on things discussed in or out of the book. I have used this book to build some sophisticated software, and highly recommend the book as to the professional programmer getting started in .NET programming, or to the seasoned programmer that may need to reference something in .NET.
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Summary: Great information.....
Review: Juval knows his stuff! The book could have been even better if more concrete examples of code usage had been given (saves the reader alot of time from having to write experimental code) and more details of component-oriented programming were provided.
Other than that, this is a great book.
BT
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Summary: Harry Potter for Programmers
Review: Juval Lowy's Programming .Net Components is the Harry Potter for .Net developers. I usually read technical books a chapter at a time, over the course of a month or two; I found .Net Components, however, to be a real page turner. Seriously! I ran through it in a week, devoting any extra time to the text, and I find myself revisiting the chapters that are most relevant to the work I'm tackling. This book includes material on OO design, threading, Remoting, security, versioning, and other advanced topics that you won't find MSDN discussing in this detail or with this practicality. Lowy's combination of .Net framework insight combines with implementation best practices to produce a book for sophisticated software development with .Net. I consider it the best .Net book I've read, and I've read a lot of them.
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