NT Network Programming Toolkit

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Summary: Great introduction, awful code.
Review: Great introduction to the concepts. Thin book. Thin chapters. The only downsides are the AppWizard screen shots and the general grunginess of the example code. If you use the code from the book as actual production code then you are going to be building yourself an expressway to your own personal maintenance hell.

Rating:
Summary: Great introduction, awful code.
Review: Great introduction to the concepts. Thin book. Thin chapters. The only downsides are the AppWizard screen shots and the general grunginess of the example code. If you use the code from the book as actual production code then you are going to be building yourself an expressway to your own personal maintenance hell.

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Summary: Excellent introduction in concise easy to understand format
Review: Murphy tackles the material with a no nonsense and very business-like approach. An excellent introduction. Highly recommended.

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Summary: Books delivers no good examples!
Review: Yes, the first chapters are good. Yes, they explain the the way sockets work. But, does this book give a single concise example ... NO! The book has reviews online and on the back of the book, which state, "No prior knowledge nessecary," and "Great for Beginners!" Well I've written network code on UNIX before and I have some limited experience on NT; but I couldn't figure out the books examples. Not to mention I had a hell of a time getting the projects off the CD-ROM and into a workspace. (I was never able to convert the projects, I could just get the *.cpp and *.h files) All in all, this book is not for someone who with little experience.

Rating:
Summary: Books delivers no good examples!
Review: Yes, the first chapters are good. Yes, they explain the the way sockets work. But, does this book give a single concise example ... NO! The book has reviews online and on the back of the book, which state, "No prior knowledge nessecary," and "Great for Beginners!" Well I've written network code on UNIX before and I have some limited experience on NT; but I couldn't figure out the books examples. Not to mention I had a hell of a time getting the projects off the CD-ROM and into a workspace. (I was never able to convert the projects, I could just get the *.cpp and *.h files) All in all, this book is not for someone who with little experience.