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Title: Microsoft Visual C# .NET Step by Step--Version 2003 by Jon Jonn/Jagger Sharp, Jon Jagger, John Sharp ISBN: 0-7356-1909-3 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 26 March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99

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Average Customer Rating: 3.45 (22 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: Not for beginners
Comment: If you already know how to program in Visual C++, you will probably find this book covers new features of C++ .NET rather well, although some of the explanations are very short and terse.

The code is accurate and the examples are easy to load, saving you a ton of keystrokes while allowing you to concentrate on the walkthrough of how the program accomplishes it's task.

However, for the beginner... look elsewhere. For those that know how to code already, take a look at this:

Page 14: A "Hello World" program.

Page 15: OOP programming, encapsulation, polymorphism, inheritance, classes and objects.

Page 21 begins with a "simple" example. Within that example are classes, public and private members, how to access them, pointers, indirection operators, the garbage collector, managed extensions, functions - including the unexplained Console::Write() and Console::WriteLine() functions that perform string output.

Woops! Almost forgot namespaces, #include directives and the "using ". Any beginners know what a .dll file is?

Then we move onto page 26... Eeek!

And, just to make sure you beginners know you're going to be overwhelmed, here's a paragraph from page 23:

"Because of these performance issues, the .NET Framework also supports value types. Value types are objects created on the stack. The variable contains the object itself rather than a pointer to the object. Hence, the variable doesn't have to be dereferenced to manipulate the object, which of course improves performance. To declare a value type class, the __value keyword should be used instead of the __gc keyword. In this case, the variables would have been created on the stack. Instead of declaring pointers for this class and then creating the objects on the CLR heap by using the new operator, the objects would have been declared in the same way as the built-in C++ types and the member vairiables accessed by the dot operator rather than via the dereferencing operator."

Got all that? Hope so, because before you reach page 50, he'll cover declaring variables, assigning values, Arrays, Pointers, References, Constants, Enumerations, Typedefs, the String class, arithmatic operators, relational and logical operators, typecasting, the Ternary Operator, the sizeof() operator, bitwise operators, precedence and associativity.

Neat huh?

Only for experienced, proficient C++ programmers.

Rating: 5
Summary: Visual C# .NET Step-by-Step is a good book
Comment: For some reason Amazon seems to think that two different titles: Visual C++ .Net: Step by Step: Version 2003 and Visual C# .Net: Step by Step are two different editions of the same book.

Some of the reviews you will read for this book refer to the other "edition". I really like the C# book, but I've never even seen the C++ edition.

If you are developing a new .NET application with forms, I can't think of any reason to use Visual-C++. If you have a lot of legacy C++ code that you'd like to port to .NET, then you might want to use Managed C++.

The book I bought is Visual C# .Net Step by Step Version 2003 by John Sharp and Jon Jagger. It seems like a really good introduction to programming Windows Forms with Visual C# in Visual Studio 2003.

Rating: 5
Summary: The best C# book for visual Studio
Comment: Note to Amazon staff:

Please take down the review by:
Reviewer: alleyrat001 from Watervliet, NY United States
March 6, 2004

"alleyrat" is obviously talking about a different book for C++ not c#. You must clear up with him which text he is referring to but it is obvious that none of the page references even remotely match.

This erroneous low score is dragging down the overall review rating.

I liked the book so much that I took it upon myself to help right this wrong.

PERFECT FOR BEGINNERS!

I bought about a dozen C# books from a store that does close-outs. For a few dollars I stocked a full C# reference library with all the major titles. I may not be an expert but if there is a C# text I have read at least parts of it.

Even though it is not a reference text and they do not go into some fancier stuff in too much detail, the way the authors explain and properly use the power of Visual Studio is so good that I wind up using this book more than any other.

I may dig more for speciific examples in other ref. books or on the net(who doesn't) but if I want to get the solid explanation I start here.

You cannot write productively .net code without VS!

when you see a book that says in the the Intro that you can whip out your ole' Notepad and go just keep going... Those are the geeks that will keep you going in circles with cryptic explanations of a term that include three or more new never previously defined terms.

Ole' Notepad is like a flight instructor coming to class and saying: "You can fly from Houston to Seattle and you can also walk so class, put on your walking shoes and bon voyage!" "But sir, what about flying?" "Well we'll get into that when you walk back from Seattle."

So if you do not want to walk( or crawl) with .net you have to start with the Visual Studio IDE right off the bat and this book does just that best.

Even though I had a whole shelf of other books already I had to pay full price for this one and it was worth every penny.

Cudos!

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