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Summary: A Real World Guide to .NET
Review: I've purchased several books to get up to speed on .NET. This one is the most practical I've found. The authors spend the first few chapters going through how we got to .NET and the important parts of the relevent technologies (XML, schemas, XSLT, DOM, etc) and then dive right into how to build proper .NET applications. They don't just focus on the different ways to do things, but offer advice from their experience on when to choose which method. Also, I have been very pleasently surprised with the lack of errors in the book. There are still a few minor ones, but the reviewers must have worked overtime on this one. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in building scalable enterprise applications.
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Summary: Technically superb
Review: It is a technically superb book. This book is best suited for any serious developer who wants to learn Web Services and .NET. It reads well, has concrete examples, and the examples works!This book covers a wide range of topics about this technology, starting off Part I with an overview of XML: XML Basic, XML Schemas, DOM, XSL, SOAP, and Web Services. Part II discusses .NET Framework: Common Language Runtime, .NET Framework Classes, Integrating SQL Server 2000 with .NET, ADO.NET. Part III goes into greater detail about building .NET applications: ASP.NET Web services, ASP.NET, and Windows applications. It even discusses how to debug .NET application!
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Summary: A complete Guide for the New .NET Developers
Review: Most than a great title, this book has all the things i think i need in a .NET Application book. Many people who has experience working with Microsoft platform has teh same questions about what is the relation between the way they were working and the .NEt way, what is difference, what is better, what are the foundation of what they are doing and why to change... this books cover many aspects of the Web Development platforms used today, explaining the concepts, and then starting from them, take us to .NET development in a guided way, with good samples and strong theory, in my opinion is a complete book for actual Web Developers trying to get ASP.NET and Web services. One good point For newcomers is the inclussion of theory about the bases of Web Developement and related technologies, creating a good framework to understand the platform in wich we will be working for the next years Is a great effort by the authors and is notorious that thay have real field experience and a tutorial soul to let people understand easily what they wanna say
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Summary: seeking .Knowledge
Review: The book was very good at describing how Microsoft technically arrived at .Net. The book did not tailor itself for a particular skill level. Instead it provided information for every level. If you wanted an overview you could skip the detailed examples. If you wanted to really dive in it gave excellent complex examples for utilizing the framework.
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Summary: Great book, both a how-to and a reference
Review: This book does a wonderful job of explaining complex topics to the reader. It starts with the fundemental building blocks of today's technology, XML/XSL SOAP etc and explains where they fit into the overall picture of building enterprise level applications using web services. This book also has great overviews of the technologies involved which is useful when trying to explain these topics to others (such as less technical supervisors <g>). The strategy of decomposing a complex problem into its parts and explaining each one is applied at all levels of the book, you can read the first part of chapters or the overview, or dive all the way in, and get your hands dirty. This would be a great resource for programmers who are trying to update their skill sets, or as a reference book for any .NET project. Be warned, this is no 'for dummies' book. The chapters are well laid out and modular, so making it useful as a 'reference' type book. The book is an easy read, it is well written, it is not just a technical manual filled with buzzwords and page after page of code, code snippets are targeted and consise. Just enough to show you how to be dangerous with .NET.
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Summary: A practical approach to .Net development
Review: This book gives one the sense that it was written by real developers, not academicians who never code for the real world. It covers the bases and shows why specific approaches work. Great help to get .Net coding off to a running start.
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Summary: Good starter guide..! Nothing more
Review: This book intoduces more on XML stuff than to a .NET developer. It starts explaining .NET architecture after XML. I have read a lot of xml stuff before, so that probably helps to new developer. The authors approach on explaining things is just great for a new .NET developer. I used this book like a quick start for .NET Web services. Beside, I found this book lack lot of architectural considerations for real world deployments and so on.
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Summary: A Great Real World approach
Review: This book is great in that it allies technology concepts and techniques with a real world effective approaches. Very well suited for starting on the .Net plateform, as well as a reference material for those of us more experienced with this technology.
From the XML basics and related technologies to building applications for the entreprise, the book paves the way for the serious developper to start on the new platform.
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Summary: An infromative reference and tutorial from XML to .NET
Review: This book starts with the basics of XML and builds right through how to build and deploy enterprise applications using Web Services and .NET. A great book for anyone looking to add professional .NET development experience to their resume.
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Summary: A real world guide to delivering scaleable XML based apps
Review: This book was a pleasant surprise. The authors spent valuable time getting the reader up to speed on the key technologies (XML, XSLT, DOM, SOAP, etc.) and then jump into real benchmarks to prove out their design approach. It is refreshing to have authors back up their claims early in the book; comparing an XML/Web Sevice approach with more traditional COM/Recordset desgin patterns. I am half way through the book now and I am getting fired up to start slinging .NET code that will inherently be able to scale better then current approaches! Great work guys!
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