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Summary: Explanations are far too difficult to comprehend.....
Review: An earlier reviewer said he had trouble with delegates. I agree, he explains complicated things on a high level, then the simpler things that should already be known by programmers, he grinds into you. I went to a web-site and learned what I needed to about Delegates in one paragraph. Matt forgets to tell us (no pun intended) what delegates are... This is a decent reference, but as for learning the language, I would look to something else.
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Summary: I rate this 1 because 0 and below were not options
Review: Has anyone else that's read the section on ADO.NET noticed that the objects are no longer SQLConnection or OLEDBConnection, and instead ADOConnection....???Given that this guy works at MS, I'm thinking that there is a major change within ADO.NET in the final release of VS.NET that is going to be different than how it currently is with ADO.NET in the Beta 2 or Release Candidate. Anyhow, good book, I've found it very informative and up-to-date (trust me...that's valuble) as a C# reference.
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Summary: Best book on C# so far for Windows Forms programming
Review: This is the best book I've purchased yet that covers Windows Forms programming with C#. After the usual chapters that introduce you to the C# language, OO Programming, CLR and Microsoft .Net in general you'll find that the remainder of the book (About 40-45%) provides solutions and great code examples on programming Windows Forms Applications.
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Summary: "Get Your Feet Wet" for Intermediate Programmers
Review: WHERE I'M COMING FROM: Computer science grad student with academic experience in C++. 2 years professional ColdFusion and SQL. 1 year professional Java and PHP. WHAT I HAVE TO SAY: Eh. This book definitely doesn't talk down to developers with a medium level of experience, but it doesn't really spend all that much time on any one topic. Maybe I'm dense, but I still haven't caught on to its explanation of Delegates. This might be better for an Advanced Beginner than an Intermediate Programmer. This being my first C# book, I'm guessing it is middle of the road. I'm moving on to Petzold's Programming Windows with C#.
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Summary: Obsolete already
Review: While the author seems to cover the topics well, including good useable code examples, much of the information is already obsolete. He obviously wrote this while the C# language was still in Beta 1, because many of the classes and methods he uses were removed, replaced, or renamed as of Beta 2. I can't believe they published a book written about a language before the language was officially finalized and released. It's very difficult to search the Internet, MSDN, etc. for all of the "equivalent" classes for the outdated ones the author uses... I recommend you find a newer and more accurate book.
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Summary: Obsolete already
Review: While the author seems to cover the topics well, including good useable code examples, much of the information is already obsolete. He obviously wrote this while the C# language was still in Beta 1, because many of the classes and methods he uses were removed, replaced, or renamed as of Beta 2. I can't believe they published a book written about a language before the language was officially finalized and released. It's very difficult to search the Internet, MSDN, etc. for all of the "equivalent" classes for the outdated ones the author uses... I recommend you find a newer and more accurate book.
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