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Summary: C# made easy to learn
Review: All I can say about this book is that it is simply great. I really liked the examples, language, and style of authors. After reading the book, it seems that they have good hands-on experience of C#.I think this book is must buy for people who want to learn C# for practical use not just for reading and forgetting. Use of various types of projects to explain concepts is wonderful. Buy this book if you want to learn C# fast, comprehensively, and easily.
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Summary: Ugly
Review: As many of the other reviewers have mentioned, this book is very rough. Around chapter 9, it seems that some pages have gone missing. The first project has you create some forms, but at the end of ch. 9 it says the next chapter will cover creating one of the key forms you need for the project. Ch. 10, though, starts out assuming you already have completed creating this form. The authors clearly did not have anyone actually sit down and try to follow their examples. The idea of a project oriented book is great, but the execution on this one is just horrible
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Summary: Ugly
Review: As many of the other reviewers have mentioned, this book is very rough. Around chapter 9, it seems that some pages have gone missing. The first project has you create some forms, but at the end of ch. 9 it says the next chapter will cover creating one of the key forms you need for the project. Ch. 10, though, starts out assuming you already have completed creating this form. The authors clearly did not have anyone actually sit down and try to follow their examples. The idea of a project oriented book is great, but the execution on this one is just horrible
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Summary: Terrible
Review: As most of the other reviewers, I have found this book seriously lacking in editorial professionalism. Missing code, chapters/sections out of order (ie, project 1, fix the input validation on a form in chapter 9, and create the form in chapter 10! Yes, it is that bad) To push a book this bad on a public that's attempting to educate themselves is nothing short of a sin. After visiting Premier's web site, there is no errata, nothing at all (except to download the example code). Avoid this one! G
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Summary: Excellent Start for C# Web Applications for Advanced Dev-rs
Review: Excellent book for C# web services real projects - from start to finish. I had 17 years of Dev expertise and with the help of this book build the Portal Project Prototype with Web services in C# in 2 days not knowing C# at all. Definitely NEED TO BE READ BY Developers who are moving to C# from other languages. Very Clear, brief and refreshing info about the OOP and MS COM, COM+,MTS,DTC and etc.+ how to call/use C# with above. Have not seen such brief and exact info on how COM,COM+,MTS architected and works - that took only 5-10 pages not 500 or 900 to make $. Certainly this book is not THE ONLY SOLUTION how to write C# web applications - but the basics are there and all sample code is working PERFECTO. Then you are on your own to improve your skills in Architecting/Development. Thank you authors for Clear and Simple presentation of C# real projects!
BEllevue, WA
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Summary: worthless take a weekend and write your own manual
Review: I am an experienced Software Engineer. I found this book to be real disappointment. Could have been written by student programmers with no beneficial insight. Get a few of your friends together one weekend and write a book based on canned help file examples you can be an author too! The specific criticisms mentioned by other reviewers are true.Save your money. Ever read a novel and think to yourself "this is going to get better, this is going to get better" only to find it never does? If so there is nothing new to be experienced for you in reading this book. Notice the obvious bias apparent in the few extremely positive reviews. Please people be objective. A sham book is a sham book regardless of any kinship you may feel for the authors. At least consult other web sources for recommended books, something I did not do after being excited by the lure of learning through exciting projects. This book does not deliver.
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Summary: Did anyone proof this before publication?
Review: I bought this book through an apparently misguided recommendation without bothering to read the reviews. Everything goes fine until you run across project 1, where you then begin wondering if maybe your copy was bound out of order or some other crazy publication mishap. They have you modifying forms that they haven't had you create yet, and assume that you have the database they use in the code already defined and populated without any prior mention. Hopefully I can sucker someone on Ebay to buy this from me...
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Summary: Did anyone proof this before publication?
Review: I bought this book through an apparently misguided recommendation without bothering to read the reviews. Everything goes fine until you run across project 1, where you then begin wondering if maybe your copy was bound out of order or some other crazy publication mishap. They have you modifying forms that they haven't had you create yet, and assume that you have the database they use in the code already defined and populated without any prior mention. Hopefully I can sucker someone on Ebay to buy this from me...
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Summary: It's worth the discount price
Review: I neglected to read other's reviews of this book prior to buying it for full price at a local bookstore.
I found the text tedious to read and skipped many pages early on. Maybe other readers will find the introductory chapters on C# helpful.
I belive that the editor(s) could have and should have eliminated the multiple occurrences of phrases like "are discussed in the next section." Also, a technical review (or a more thorough one) should have been done to try to ensure the learner would not get lost or over-whelmed.
After skipping the first hundred pages, I started in on the first project only to ask myself, "did I miss something?" The answer was no, it just isn't there. After the authors take the time to lead you through introductory information about the language, they make the mistake of leaping too fast through the database creation. I have since found other, better books that discuss the creation and connections to the various types of databases supported by ADO. You should consider using the database connection wizard in Visual Studio for your first database project(s).
The "authors" completely gloss over the subject of the database creation for project 1. If this trend continues throughout the book, as another reviewer points out -
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Summary: It's worth the discount price
Review: I neglected to read other's reviews of this book prior to buying it for full price at a local bookstore.
I found the text tedious to read and skipped many pages early on. Maybe other readers will find the introductory chapters on C# helpful.
I belive that the editor(s) could have and should have eliminated the multiple occurrences of phrases like "are discussed in the next section." Also, a technical review (or a more thorough one) should have been done to try to ensure the learner would not get lost or over-whelmed.
After skipping the first hundred pages, I started in on the first project only to ask myself, "did I miss something?" The answer was no, it just isn't there. After the authors take the time to lead you through introductory information about the language, they make the mistake of leaping too fast through the database creation. I have since found other, better books that discuss the creation and connections to the various types of databases supported by ADO. You should consider using the database connection wizard in Visual Studio for your first database project(s).
The "authors" completely gloss over the subject of the database creation for project 1. If this trend continues throughout the book, as another reviewer points out -
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