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Summary: Describes foundation of C#, .NET and VS.NET
Review: This book will probably be a hit or miss for you, with no in-between ground. You can see by the reviews people either loved it or hated it. I believe some people like to make assumptions about the basics of a language as they learn the more complex subjects. Others like to see the basics spelled out, then take off like rockets. If you fall into the second group, as I do, then I think you will enjoy this book. I probably won't refer to it again, but reading this book will help me absorb the more complicated aspects of using C# and .NET all the faster. I like to separate learning _what_ all the new C# and .NET features are, from _how_ I should use them. This simple book focuses on the _what_. With a solid understanding of the pieces of C# and .NET, I can now focus exclusively on learning _how_ to best use these new features, via other books.
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Summary: Good startup kit for C# programming
Review: This books have cover most of the critical aspect under C# programming language and I like the way the books structured. It describe the language syntax in 2 short chapters, which is good coz most of the time, the syntax for programming language is quite similar and for the case of C#, it very similar to syntax like C++ and Java and the author uses the C++ and Java syntax comparison approach which I find very easy for me to learn up the syntax. This is very valuable to me and the remaining of the book cover other critical aspect of .Net such as Assemblies and Manifest, COM+ Services for .Net Components, Web Services, Webform (ASP.NET) and Winform, which is important for further understanding the usage of C# in .Net platform. Now, I'm waiting for the Inside C# book from MS Press, which suppose to have more in-depth coverage of C# programming language. Moreover, I'm looking forward for a book that provide example for .Net Framework using C# (MSDN, CodeProject, VisualStudioWire, Wrox did provide those information but is better to have a complete guide on this) coz I feel that after picking up this language, the next hurdle is to understand the .Net framework well in order to do real world coding for .Net apps, where the current .Net Framework SDK have a lot of missing information. But overall, this book did provide me a good start on C# and is far more better then others C# books in the market currently, even most of the chapter provide quite limited information on the particular topic but this is what we can expect for technology under BETA stage and this is only the beginner guide. Great work [authors], keep it up for the next release, the Profesional C# (suggestion). Thanks for reading my review:-)
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Summary: Waste of money
Review: This is a BAD book, if I ever saw one. Everything is extremely sketchy, and the logic in the examples given is so muddled, it's painful. It starts with pretty good, though, but quickly goes to complete garbage, designed to confuse you. I'm an experienced VB developer, I'd ashamed to produce the code that's in this book, and the explanations of the examples are outrageously incomplete. Don't buy this!
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