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Summary: Practial Book on .NET Patterns
Review: I really don't understand the bad ratings of other reviewers. Either these reviewers didn't read the book or they are totally in love with theoretical issues on design patterns. This book shows hand on experiences - the authors shows REAL WORLD examples and illustrates how patterns are applied. I found the book very useful and it contains new interesting ideas on implementing PRACTICAL and USEFUL software applications with the .NET framework.
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Summary: Worst tech book ever. Hands down
Review: I've read a ton of tech books and this is by far, by far the worst tech book I've ever come across. The code samples are terribly edited (the code is not even indented within braces), the author insists on using obsolete Hungarian notation - a boolean can only be used in certain expressions - I don't need a 'b' to tell me that. It just creates a bunch of noise that inteferes with codes intent. Like most developers, I like to see examples to get a feel for what the author is trying to express in words. Unfortunately this book is long on verbage and way too short on examples. And the 'patterns' are kind of useless - passing a DataSet as the parm to a WebService so the interface doesn't change.. Gee thats groundbreaking - Does the author design all his classes with one execute() method so that the interface doesn't change? I have a feeling the reviewers who write glowing reports of this book are friends of the author - everyone I have spoken to about the book says the same thing I am saying here.
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Summary: Good content. Non-existent editing.
Review: THE GOOD: The patterns in this book are very good. Useful, informative, and well explained. The author really seems to know his stuff and convey it well.THE NO SO GOOD: Too much time is spent inadequately introducing concepts that the reader should just be sent to another book for. Ironically the author realizes this and says so before he goes forward with his useless introductory material. THE BAD: It appears that I am the first person to read this book since it was completed. It is probably among the five most poorly edited software books I have ever seen. Simply read the fist 10 pages and you will find at least one non-sensical sentence per page. Sometimes this is as simple as an extra verb or the accidental use of "it" when the author meant "is". Other times the entire thought becomes indecipherable in the middle of a line.
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Summary: Just not what you expect
Review: There's some good stuff in this book, but it isn't a dedicated patterns book, if you ask me. On top of that there's just too much crap in the form of extremely poor editing resulting in typos on every second page and the code listings are very poor; well the content is half decent but agian the formatting clutters the big picture.
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Summary: Great - for a first draft
Review: This book is a great resource for .NET Framework developers, with patterns that are very useful and nicely solve many common .NET Framework design challenges. In particular, I like the composite "Poly Model" pattern for a flexible data access layer. Unfortunetely, the code is full of typos and just plain errors. It is frustrating to see a piece of code querying for the number of rows effected by a query, when the count was already returned to another variable just one line above! Terrible editing has taken much pleasure out of discovering the interesting and effective patterns. I am most disappointed in the fact that there is no downloadable code samples that show the sample implementations in their entirety, and working (which would at least force the author to make sure the code can compile). The only reason why I am giving 3 stars is because the patterns presented are excellent overall, but this book is like reading a first draft.
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Summary: Great - for a first draft
Review: This book is a great resource for .NET Framework developers, with patterns that are very useful and nicely solve many common .NET Framework design challenges. In particular, I like the composite "Poly Model" pattern for a flexible data access layer. Unfortunetely, the code is full of typos and just plain errors. It is frustrating to see a piece of code querying for the number of rows effected by a query, when the count was already returned to another variable just one line above! Terrible editing has taken much pleasure out of discovering the interesting and effective patterns. I am most disappointed in the fact that there is no downloadable code samples that show the sample implementations in their entirety, and working (which would at least force the author to make sure the code can compile). The only reason why I am giving 3 stars is because the patterns presented are excellent overall, but this book is like reading a first draft.
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Summary: The Worst to come From AW
Review: This is the poorest book to come out of Addison-Wesley Pub Co. It is simply not usable and a waste.
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Summary: Waste of Time
Review: This is the worst book I've ever read on programming, period. I've never taken the time to write a review before but this book is so horrible that it motivated me to look it up here and write it a poor review. I'm returning my copy. Simply put, there is very, very little useful content. Between the simple grammatical errors and the code errors I just couldn't bring myself to finish it. I read until page 59 telling myself it has to get better but it just didn't. Microsoft puts out a free book that you can download in PDF format named "Enterprise Solution Patterns using Microsoft .NET", save your money and read that. I cannot express how disappointed I was with this book.
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Summary: Waste of Time
Review: This is the worst book I've ever read on programming, period. I've never taken the time to write a review before but this book is so horrible that it motivated me to look it up here and write it a poor review. I'm returning my copy. Simply put, there is very, very little useful content. Between the simple grammatical errors and the code errors I just couldn't bring myself to finish it. I read until page 59 telling myself it has to get better but it just didn't. Microsoft puts out a free book that you can download in PDF format named "Enterprise Solution Patterns using Microsoft .NET", save your money and read that. I cannot express how disappointed I was with this book.
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Summary: How-To book not a 'Patterns' book
Review: This more of a how-to book than a patterns book. The author tries hard to make this a patterns book but its not. Its not a bad book.. just not what I expected from it.
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