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Title: Microsoft Visual C# .NET Step by Step by John Sharp, Jon Jagger ISBN: 0-7356-1289-7 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 23 January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.48 (33 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best of Five Books on C# and Visual Studio
Comment: I hated to see it end. Thankfully, the extra exercises on the CD gave me more great practice that made me feel I finally could write good software in Visual Studio. Each lesson covered a useful technique or feature from Windows forms, ADO.NET, even customizing DataGrids, to ASP.NET and web services. The code was clear, useful, well explained, and it worked! I found almost no erratta and didn't realized the authors were in the UK until I had finished (great editing, no idomatic expressions). I look forward to another book by Sharp and Jagger. I like the way they write and learned more from them than all four other books I have on the subject. I had no unanswered questions and was never bored. Any repetition was good practice on things you need to know cold and use, like filling a DataSet from a SqlDataAdapter or try/catch and MessageBox.Show(). Things weren't over-simplified. I believe they had me practicing good coding technique throughout, even tier separation, unlike many other books. Covering ASP.Net Forms right after Windows Forms made it easier to understand and remember the differences. First, learn the basics of C# from a reference volume (I particularly liked Petzoldt's emphasis on SCOPE) then get this book to dive into Visual Studio and learn while doing it step by step. All major features of Visual Studio .NET Pro are used and code well explained (except maybe delegates but they take volumes to explain). I expect to refer back to this book when I get stuck building my own projects. These authors raise the bar for all the others. Six stars would be more appropriate.
Rating: 3
Summary: Good intro for the novice
Comment: This book is geared for the person who is either a novice programmer or is new to object oriented programming. Anyone who is migrating from another language such as C++ or Java would be better served by choosing the Microsoft Press Core Reference book. This book takes a leisurely pace through C# and Visual Studio. Each chapter introduces a concept and then takes you through a step-by-step demonstration in Visual Studio of a program using that concept. Beyond the basics of C#, the book also covers such topics and ASP.NET, ADO.NET, and web services. It includes a brief tutorial on XML as well. The book does not cover each topic in great depth and some topics are left out (I/O, for example) but for someone with little or no experience the pace and the material covered is about perfect. Overall the book is well done. The book makes it easy for the novice to learn C#. The lessons are well designed to help the reader understand the material that was just covered. The authors' pace is perfect for a self-study course and should allow you to learn the material without much struggle. If you have experience then you will probably want to look elsewhere, perhaps to the Core Reference or the O'Reilly book. You should note that this book is very much a "hands on" book so you will need a copy of Visual Studio or Visual C#.NET to make it worthwhile.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great book for Starts But....
Comment: The book is wonderful if your new to C# .net and want a guided tour. However, even though the book goes over alot of examples the code samples are made to illustrate a point of the chapter and no reference on how the application was made is given. What I done to get the most out of the book was read it from cover to cover first and looked at what the code examples was trying to illustrate. After I read the book then i went thru each example and reviewed the code and tried to make my application work like they had without using their code. Others learn differently but thats the only way I could get anything from this book. I like the Chapter quicknotes. If you take those postit note tabs and put them on those pages they make a great reference.
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Title: Inside C#, Second Edition by Tom Archer, Andrew Whitechapel ISBN: 0735616485 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 24 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Microsoft Visual C# .NET Language Reference by Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Corporation ISBN: 0735615543 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 06 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: OOP with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual C# .NET Step by Step by Robin A. Reynolds-Haertle ISBN: 0735615683 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 23 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Step by Step by Michael Halvorson ISBN: 0735613745 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 23 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Microsoft Visual C# .NET (Core Reference) by Mickey Williams ISBN: 0735612900 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 27 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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