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Summary: Save your money
Review: I bought this book hoping it would fill in the blanks on writing ASP.Net applications using OWC. It was no help in this regard.Furthmore, it was full of inappropriate stuff. For example, a whole chapter on very basic good programming practices which have nothing in particular to do with topic on hand. The book is poorly edited and the english lousy. I feel cheated to have paid $25 for a book full of screen shots of the Microsoft sample programs.
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Summary: This is a first-rate book for programmers
Review: I consider this is a first-rate book for programmers. I thought it was easy to read and full of useful information. This is an excellent book for people interested in coding Office Web Components. This book introduces the concepts very well and has excellent code examples to reinforce these concepts.
The author provides good background explanations for Chart elements. I set up my charts from OLAP data using this book very quickly. The code sample I used from this book for Charting can not be found in MSDN or anywhere else. Sometimes I found trivial grammar errors. Maybe the author needs a better editor.
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Summary: Very useful
Review: I found the book easy to understand. It has tons of examples and was written in a very friendly style. The book has extensive coverage on Chart component.
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Summary: Very helpful for charting
Review: I found this book has been extremely useful for dynamic charting on the web site. All chart types and source code samples have been covered thoroughly. The author even showed you the techniques of charting Gantt chart for project management. This is a complete reference for programmers.
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Summary: An useful reference for programmers with rich code samples
Review: I found this book is a very useful reference for programmers since it is source code intensive. In the chart component section, the book clearly described the elements of chart component such as Chart Titles, Legend, Series, Values, Axes, Gridlines, Error Bars, Trendline, and Data labels. The book offers complete code samples in: --Pie Chart
--Line Chart
--Area Chart
--Column Chart
--Bar Chart
--Gantt Chart
--XY Scatter Chart
--Stock Chart
--Doughnut Chart
--Radar Chart
--Bubble Chart
--Polar Chart
--Combination Chart The book also introduced some advanced techniques with the chart component such as Split Axis, Add Data Labels, Create Chart Methods, and Create Chart using XML Data. The book also provided rich code samples for Pivot Table component and Spreadsheet component.
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Summary: This book is bad.
Review: It's written in broken English. The examples are almost word for word identical to the MSDN examples. Almost no new information that is not already in a better format on MSDN. Buy the Microsoft Press books instead.
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Summary: This book is bad.
Review: It's written in broken English. The examples are almost word for word identical to the MSDN examples. Almost no new information that is not already in a better format on MSDN. Buy the Microsoft Press books instead.
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Summary: Stay away from this book, it sux!
Review: Suppose you had a technical question, well you couldn't ask the author because there is no contact info. And I did have questions about the broken code littered throughout the book that kept throwing run-time errors. This book assumes that you have an advanced understanding of OWC and so leaves out much of the basic stuff, but does not give you any advanced stuff outside of charting(chapters 2 - 5). So what is this book good for? I'm searching for this answer still. This book is also not spell-checked, so expect muddled english and incoherrencies on every single page. It's not a big deal to me particularly but still enough to create a distraction. I am returning my copy because the book seems to be out of tune with the OWC. While much of the examples will compile, they will throw run-time exceptions. I've had to ask for help all over the web only to be told that these methods I was using weren't supported, but I got it from the book so go figure. This was probably a discertation, that the author printed out to make some money. I swear.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: The author makes his points with a minimum of jargon, a maximum of wit, a multitude of detailed code samples, and a wealth of meaningful analogies and clear explanations.
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Summary: I wouldnt recommend this book
Review: The book has large sections of topics directly copied from the help files. No additional insight. At times it feels like the author has just used filler spaces with examples that are nowhere closer to real world. Pathetic language and an over all waste of money, time and effort. Not for advanced users.
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