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Summary: Too much ground to cover.
Review: The idea of the book is great, but it fails to deliver on some key areas. I was expecting more of a "cool tips and tricks" for Visual Studio and less of an overall coverage of the .NET Framework.Yes they do a good job at tying both of these topics together but then the book should have been titled something like "Introduction to the .NET Framework using Visual Studio .NET" Enough coverage of Debugging techniques and Deployment using Visual Studio .NET is what I would say are the two most valuable topics covered successfully in this book. Overall it could have been better had the content been revised to a more specific topic. I am not entirely happy I bought the book but neither am I totally bummed out that I did... so unlike me, think about what you expect out of it before you purchase.
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Summary: Too much ground to cover.
Review: The idea of the book is great, but it fails to deliver on some key areas. I was expecting more of a "cool tips and tricks" for Visual Studio and less of an overall coverage of the .NET Framework. Yes they do a good job at tying both of these topics together but then the book should have been titled something like "Introduction to the .NET Framework using Visual Studio .NET" Enough coverage of Debugging techniques and Deployment using Visual Studio .NET is what I would say are the two most valuable topics covered successfully in this book. Overall it could have been better had the content been revised to a more specific topic. I am not entirely happy I bought the book but neither am I totally bummed out that I did... so unlike me, think about what you expect out of it before you purchase.
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Summary: Great overview of .NET and related technologies
Review: This book is a great choice for a professional developer who's been using VS6, and wants to get a feel for what .NET will help them do. A good mix of theory and detail; this isn't a reference manual, but neither will you get bored reading pages of what .NET can do without anything to back it up. Highly recommended if you are an enterprise-level VS6 developer investigating .NET's capabilities.
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Summary: Great overview of .NET and related technologies
Review: This book is a great choice for a professional developer who's been using VS6, and wants to get a feel for what .NET will help them do. A good mix of theory and detail; this isn't a reference manual, but neither will you get bored reading pages of what .NET can do without anything to back it up. Highly recommended if you are an enterprise-level VS6 developer investigating .NET's capabilities.
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Summary: This book is perfect for what it is
Review: This intro to the new features of the IDE is a good fit as a guide to the features of VS.NET for the experienced Visual Studio developer. I give it a 5 with the preceding caveats.
The book is just what I needed--a tour of the IDE highlighting the new features. It doesn't let any language considerations get in the way of showing how to use the IDEs features, and in fact tells the reader to go away if they are looking for a book on VB.NET or C#. Note here that all their sample code is written in C# though.
Their treatment of each topic is in-depth enough to step you into the use of the particular feature at hand, yet concise enough to keep you on track and get you finished working through their example quickly. I found them illustrative and easy to implement.
I give it overall a 5 because I feel that all the great features of this book tip the scale, and because I value ease of reading and quality of organization over quality of index and error free examples. -- Reviewed by Robi P.
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Summary: This book is perfect for what it is
Review: This intro to the new features of the IDE is a good fit as a guide to the features of VS.NET for the experienced Visual Studio developer. I give it a 5 with the preceding caveats.
The book is just what I needed--a tour of the IDE highlighting the new features. It doesn't let any language considerations get in the way of showing how to use the IDEs features, and in fact tells the reader to go away if they are looking for a book on VB.NET or C#. Note here that all their sample code is written in C# though.
Their treatment of each topic is in-depth enough to step you into the use of the particular feature at hand, yet concise enough to keep you on track and get you finished working through their example quickly. I found them illustrative and easy to implement.
I give it overall a 5 because I feel that all the great features of this book tip the scale, and because I value ease of reading and quality of organization over quality of index and error free examples. -- Reviewed by Robi P.
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Summary: For Total Beginners Starting VS.NET Languages
Review: This is my second review on this book but this time I am looking at it form the prospective a brand new programmer wanting to get their feet wet with the overall VS.NET languages and tools. This book is great for the beginner programmer. It is very clearly written and covers enough detail to get you started. From here, you could branch out into the respective languages and have some idea of the overall context. If someone has had some programming background with Microsoft languages, you still might just want to start with a book on the language of choice...but for the beginner...this is a good choice. Just don't expect an in-depth VS IDE book! Earl
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Summary: Not what was expecting
Review: Visual Studio .NET is the best way to program in .NET. This book is superb at showing you how to set up Visual Studio and begin programming in it. Really great book. All my programmers will start learning .NET by using this book and the OOP with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual C# .NET Step By Step book. If you are NOT going to program in C# (which you SHOULD do) and instead are programming in VB.NET, then think twice about Effective Visual Studio .NET since it is aimed at C#.
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Summary: Excellent Start to .NET Programming - Must Have
Review: Visual Studio .NET is the best way to program in .NET. This book is superb at showing you how to set up Visual Studio and begin programming in it. Really great book. All my programmers will start learning .NET by using this book and the OOP with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual C# .NET Step By Step book. If you are NOT going to program in C# (which you SHOULD do) and instead are programming in VB.NET, then think twice about Effective Visual Studio .NET since it is aimed at C#.
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