Professional C#, 2nd Edition 2002-03

by: by Simon Robinson, K. Scott Allen, Ollie Cornes, Jay Glynn, Zach Greenvoss, Burton Harvey, Christian

Professional C#, Second Edition
By Simon Robinson, K. Scott Allen, Ollie Cornes, Jay Glynn, Zach Greenvoss, Burton Harvey, Christian Nagel, Morgan Skinner, Karli Watson

• Publisher: Wrox
  
• Number Of Pages: 1272
  
• Publication Date: 2002-03-28
  
• ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0764543989
  
• ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780764543982
  

Product Description:
What is this book about? It is no exaggeration to describe the C# language and its associated environment, the .NET Framework, as the most important new technology for developers in many years. .NET provides a new environment within which you can develop almost any Windows-based or web-based application, while C# is a new programming language designed specifically to work with .NET. What does this book cover? This book is the ideal introduction to the C# language and the .NET Framework, and will become an indispensable companion for any user of C# and .NET. With this book, you learn the key concepts of the C# language, and then progress onto a complete exploration of programming the .NET Framework with C#. Topics covered include the following:

• How to program in the object-oriented C# language
  
• Writing Windows applications and Windows services
  
• Writing web pages and web services with ASP.NET
  
• Manipulating XML using C#
  
• Understanding .NET Assemblies
  
• Using ADO.NET to access databases
  
• Integration with COM, COM+, and Active Directory
  
• Distributed applications with .NET Remoting
  
• Generating graphics using C#
  
• Accessing files and the Registry, and controlling .NET security
  

Summary: No too bad, however examples must be given in full
Rating: 3
I must say that i am not overly excited about this book. It would have been beneficial to the reader if all exmaples were given in full, even if the book is aimed at the professional. The most frustrating part of the book for me was the Windows Services. I had to resort to the Internet to obtain example source to get a working Window Service. This Basically goes for the rest of the book. Authors... please don't take this personal, see it as constructive.

I must say that i don't believe there should be more than one author to a book. The writing styles are different and confuses the reader. Secondly some chapters may be more effecient than others getting the message across. There is a tendancy to have many authors just to produce a book. From a Marketing point of view this may sound great and may sell books, but take it from me this is getting more irritating than worth reading. I went and ordered another C# book with more than one author contributing to it's content and i hope that i have been proven wrong.

I would like to see more WROX books with authors like Ivor Horton. The examples are complete and work 100%. The book is Beginning VC++ 6.0. See how this book is written then one will know what i talking about.

Lastly, one author, one style = Good start to the creation of a book.




Summary: Excelent introduction book
Rating: 5
I'm an experienced VB programmer and used this book in order to get up to speed in C#. In just 2 weeks I was comfortably programmin in C#. It covers almost every key topic used in day to day work. For specific questions I use the web. This book can't cover and I think is not intendeed to go full deepth in all the topics. It starts from scratch so you may want to skip many pages, but you will definetly find most of the topics you search for.

Summary: karan
Rating: 5
Extremely good book. I am a java programmer and this book was very helpful in understanding the C# language. Each topic is treated very thoroughly. Using the class library reference from msdn is my recommendation while using this book. If you want to learn the C# language, i would definitely recommend this book.

Summary: Disappointing C# Reference
Rating: 2
I have found this book to be a very disappointing C# reference. The scope of the book is very large, but it doesn't seem to give adequate coverage of much of anything. Time and again I have gone to this book looking for a specific piece of information only to be disappointed. Other sections of the book are very poorly written. For example, in the section on exception handling, they state correctly that exceptions shouldn't be used to break out of for or while loops, and then proceed with an example that does just that. I think the author's could have invested a little more time and effort in coming up with a better example of using exceptions. Instead of buying this book, you're much better off saving your money and just using the MSDN documentation pages.

Summary: Exellent Book
Rating: 5
I don't agree that the authors used too many words. Each topic is covered clearly and succinctly. The reason the book is large is that it covers a huge amount of information (look at the table of contents). It is easy to read because the style is that of a person explaining the important points rather than a rehash of a manual. It gives insight and perspective not just facts. Lastly, there is no need to read the book cover to cover. I started with appendix A and B, then read the first 3 chapters and then skipped to the ADO.NET and ASP.NET sections.