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Summary: Not up to Wrox standards
Review: I have come to expect great things of Wrox books. I was hooked by Robert Vieira's Professional SQL Server Programming. This book is not up to that standard. While the former was lively, engaging, and made me feel like I had a live mentor walking me through the material, this book is more dull, pedantic, and tedious. Most annoying, though, are the code examples. The authors start out with clear examples that the reader can duplicate or load from the code samples. Then, by chapter 8, the examples and the context are increasingly flawed. I find the text flowing into an example, but I'm not sure whether it's a new project I should create, or just a snippet that I shouldn't bother trying, or what. And the code samples are a mess. They don't align with the chapters, and often they don't work.The book covers all important C# development topics, but I'm disappointed with the execution.
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Summary: All Over the Place
Review: I have to agree with the previous reviewers who say this book is not up to Wrox standards. This book is "all over the place", meaning there's little cohesion between chapters. This is probably because of all of the authors involved. It makes reading it very confusing. Here's a specific example. When discussing struct's vs. classes, the book starts talking about how memory allocation is different for each, and they referred to an earlier discussion of memory. I didn't recall them discussing memory earlier in the book, so I looked it up in the index. They had given it a sentence or two - obviously written by another author, and not intended to provide the depth later assumed. Unfortunately, I have purchased 3 C# books, and they're all weak. This, though, is the weakest. I gave "C# Bible" 2 stars as well, but I actually think that's a better book.
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Summary: LOVE IT!
Review: I NEVER WRITE REVIEWS, BUT THIS ONE WAS WORTH IT! This is a GREAT book for people wanted to jump head first into C#. I'm the type of person that never reads a technical book from cover to cover... I read enough to understand what I'm doing and then use the book as a reference. This is the perfect book for that! It gives you just the right amount of knowledge to start working with C# and tons of samples that actually work! I loved it so much I bought two copies -- one for home and one for the office.
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Summary: Best C# books for experienced programmers
Review: I programmed in C, Visual Basic and had some academic experience in C++(School learning). I tried to learn C# through reading material free from Internet, but it just slowed down my progress and I am tired of printing the "Free" stuff. Then I searched the Internet for an one-shot C# book. I am glad that I bought this one. I read first 200 pages at one shot and tried out some of those new ideas such as "static constructor", "abstract class". This book really convinced me that C# is the best language out there, indexer, delegate, event; I love those new additions. (I read "Thinking in Java" and liked Java, but Java still has something quite messy which I dislike. ) This book will get you up to speed on C# and .Net in a very easy climb. But this book is not trying to teach you how to design a solution. I strongly recommend "ASP.NET Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution" for that purpose.
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Summary: Great book!
Review: I think this book covers most (if not all) of the areas of C#, some more thoroughly than others. It is a great "welcome" book for programmers and may be used for advanced features of the language, though I wouldn't use it as a reference book. Note that the ASP.NET materials are a bit shalow, so if that's your main goal look for another book. The bottom line is - great book to have around!
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Summary: Great Reference and Code, Code, Code.
Review: I think this is an excellent book for anyone learning the language, or working on one of their first big projects in c#. The coverage is truly astounding, and really unparallelled in other books I have read. As you would expect from Wrox, it is also loaded with sample code that does something useful. I would have given it five stars except for the lack of a thorough example covering multiple chapters. In the interest of full disclosure, I worked as technical reviewer for this book. But, I own a copy and use it regularly.
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Summary: Very Impressive
Review: I'll keep it short... this is very impressive. For someone with a VB background, tad bit of Java & C++ from years ago, and a seasoned web, COM, and SQL programmer, I found this to be THE book to get up to speed and use as a reference for my C# learning curve and development. I did buy the Beginning book to answer some OO C# specific questions (delegates for one) and it's very helpful. Plenty of info to get started working with XML, web & win forms, ADO.NET, file IO, Windows Services, security, etc. HIGHLY recommended.
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Summary: Easy Reading
Review: I'm currently reading this book and I find it extremely easy to comprehend. Reading may seem a little slow at times but you will find yourself rereading paragraphs (or chapters) less. I'm also using this book as a reference and was forced to read some chapters out of sequence and still found the content easy to understand. Buy this book if you are a expert VB programmer (at heart) and new to the word of low-level programming. You will be happy you did.
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Summary: Not a good book to learn the C#
Review: It is very discouraging to read a programming book when after reading several chapters (7 chapters), you felt like you have not learned anything or you cannot apply what you read from the previous chapters. As one of the reviewers said, the chapters are not progressive in terms of building your skills. The book could be a good reference but of course, you can always get it for free and can better explain a topic. I really like the books from Wrox but book like this is degrading the excellent and quality reputation of Wrox books. Beginners beware.......
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Summary: By far the worst book on C#
Review: Of all the C# books I own (I own 5), this is by far the worst. Can you learn from this book? Sure, but you have to deal with mistakes in the code examples, crummy explanations of how C# works, and bad editing. The numerous authors of this book have 50% overlap in their coverage, but each of them miss the point in their explanations.
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