Real-World .NET Applications

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Summary: Good applications
Review: Even if you don't want to read the book,the downloadable applications are worth your money. The apps work and are of good quality. I'm using the Class Diagram to draw UML diagrams. I find it easier to use than even Visio. Drawing is much easier using the author's application (in chapter 4). Other apps are fun too. The e-commerce ASP.NET app is also useful.

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Summary: Having Fun with Pacman
Review: This book is one of the few .NET titles with some meat. I'm particularly interested in the
game application: Pacman-clone. The chapter explains very clearly, from the design, the patterns used, and implementation.
Other applications are useful too: FTP client app, XML document editor, etc.

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Summary: Best .NET book
Review: This is the best book .NET book i've read. The applications discussed are really real-world apps, and the author explains them extremely well. This book helped me write my custom Windows control and I'm really thankful. Get this book if you aim more than simple toy codes.
The other good thing about this book is the use of design patterns throughout the applications. It's good to see design patterns are really used in applications. The codes run with .NET Framework 1.0 and 1.1