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Summary: C++/MFC/COM/Win32 programmers...this is THE book!
Review: To make a long story short:If you're an experienced Windows programmer, this book will provide you with everything that you need to know, and nothing that you don't. Clear and concise in every chapter...how polymorphism works in C#, why .NET is different than COM, how C# is different than C++ and Java, etc, etc, etc. I am in the process of converting two projects to C#/.NET (one MFC, one Win32 API), and I was up to speed in two weeks. I'm removing one star because I feel that the ADO.NET portion of the book was rushed. A few more details would have been great. On the other hand, that's probably a whole book in itself. Anyway, if you're a programmer that wants to learn .NET, I highly recommend this book!
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Summary: Good introduction to C#
Review: Andrew Troelsen's C# book is a readable, well-organized introduction to programming in C#. The content is interesting, and covers a useful range of topics, but several of the chapters leave you wanting more detail, such as the chapters on ADO.NET and XML Web services. Despite its thickness, this really is an introductory book because it gets into just enough detail to get you acquainted with a topic, but not enough detail to give you a deep understanding of the topic. This book is best suited for people who want conceptual discussions and full sentence explanations, and for people who want a more gentle introduction to C#. If you are a more experienced developer and are looking for more of a reference text then this is not the book for you. In this case, I would recommend G. Palmer's "C# Programmer's Reference" (Wrox Press) (or reference the C# language specification itself). I am giving this book 3 stars for three reasons. One, the level of detail was good, but not spectacular, and many of the chapters left me wanting to know more. Two, I didn't get a strong feeling for the ".NET Platform" aspect of the book. Certainly, the book covers a range of .NET framework classes, but you don't really get a good feel for how everything fits together, because the book covers so many topics. Finally, many of the code samples are presented in the text as incomplete snippets, taken out of context. For example, many of the code snippets are missing the "using" (imports) statement that tells you which .NET Framework class it uses. Since the book is about the ".NET platform" I would have expected more attention to this detail in the code examples. The other drawback is you can't copy them into a project as you read along because they are out of context. In summary, this book is a very good introduction to C#, but is not a great reference book, and will leave most intermediate (and above) developers wanting more.
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Summary: Best book for C# programming
Review: This is one of the best books for C# programming I have ever seen. You will probably find the solution of all of your mission critical problems in this book.
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Summary: An Average Book
Review: This book is pretty average in the sense of programming. Its an average size programming book. Read it from cover to cover in 2 weeks about a chapter a day. The examples code given are realively simple. Found a couple grammatical mistakes, but just a few. Basically this book is an intro to programming book in C#. This book is would be more beneficial for those who already have programming expierence and would like to know the syntax for csharp. But it does teach from the group up, but goes over polymorphism, inheritance, pretty quickly. Mainly this has a chapter for each kind of topic, and shows the syntax and a brief explanation. For a more detailed book on CSharp and programming I would recommend the Professioinal C#, but the 2nd edition. The first edition is what I have and is just horrible!!! Full of syntax mistake, grammatical, spelling, and the list just goes on! The second edition would be worth the money it if it cut down the number of errors on the first edition by half. The Professional C# book by wrox is a little more complete and goes into more details with some more "advanced" concepts and topics. A great refrence book to have. C# and the .NET platform is an ok book if you just want a quick overview of CSharp, but not too much info on the inner workings or plumbings. RAyRAy
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Summary: A conceptual content for beginners and experienced guys
Review: Good choice! You will find all the conceptual topics needed to really understand C#. May be you will miss some guides to manage and drive the GUI, but do you really need a book for it?
It is not a book to learn how to "Open a C# project" or "Save an application", "How to write a data through ADO", etc.. It is a book to learn and UNDERSTAND C#. It's simple!
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Summary: I'm perplexed by the positive reviews
Review: I bought this book because of all the positive reviews. What a mistake. It has almost 1000 pages, and yet has nothing. Simply amazing. There's not a single useful chapter in this book. All the code snippets are pathetically simple. Not only that, they have no context - i.e. they won't compile if you copy them because they're incomplete. The MSDN Help gives you much more than this book. And the author has the nerve to call them "No Toy Code". On top of that, that phrase is actually trademarked. What a joke! I don't understand the positive reviews at all. The apps these people build have got to be simple if they find this book useful. I hardly ever buy technical books because the MSDN Help is usually plenty for me, so I was counting on the reviewers to know what they're talking about. But this now puts some serious doubts in my mind about the book reviews here. I'm leery of them now.
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Summary: C# ok, but where is the .NET part?
Review: The book is a fair introduction to the C# language but it helps little with the .NET platform and even less with using C# + .NET to get things done. There is just a hint of interesting questions in the last two chapters, but Web Services are presented in a rather vague nutshell and space is wasted digressing about VS toolbox widgets instead of code examples. It was somehow infuriating to read the comment that debugging ASP.NET with the new Visual Studio is "easy" compared with the old Visual Interdev. In fact it is just as IMPOSSIBLE and even Microsoft's own documentation doesn't help at all. I guess the Redmond dudes still cannot fix the bugs in their debugging process. Oh well... <sigh>
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Summary: A really great Book...
Review: Very nice book... I know more about .NET now... this is that I like and searching. Get it.
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Summary: Andrew really knows C# Great book!
Review: Andrew Troelsen is really a great technical author... As he explains each topic in depth, he makes it easy to understand. This book covers all necessary topics to get you a great start coding managed code in c# Well thought out book... -Matt
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Summary: ...
Review: I'll give Microsoft there dues, they try. The entire book is on CD Rom for easy searching and comes with a DVD of Visual Studio Evaluation Edition. It provides a good overview of the C# & VB .net languages but doesn't go deep enough and has too many mistakes. I don't know how anyone could expect to pass a certification exam using this book alone. If you want to learn C# get Andrew Trolesen's C# and the .NET Platform.
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