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Title: Microsoft Visual C# .NET (Core Reference) by Mickey Williams ISBN: 0-7356-1290-0 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 27 March, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.36 (14 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Reference on Visual C#
Comment: As is stated on the front cover of this book, this is a "Reference," and not a tutorial, however, this book is an invaluable reference. For learning C#/.Net itself, I recommend either the Wrox Professional C# 2nd Edition, or the OOP with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual C# .NET Step by Step.
Mickey covers all aspects of C# programming, including:
* The C# language and the .Net framework itself
* An extremely comprehensive presentation of Windows Forms
* Introductory material on GDI
* Good beginning material on ADO.Net and XML
* Introductory material on ASP.Net and Web services
This book is very heay on thorough explanations of various classes, techniques, and the .Net framework itself, and very light on example programs, making it an excellent reference.
The only issue I have with this book is that it does not cover basic architectual issues in building an entire program. By this I mean it does not show how a programmer might write a distributed application, with code in components. If you want to know how best to architect an entire solution, this book is of little help. Also, Micky makes a number of well-meaning comparisons to C++, which are either wrong or are misleading, however, the comparisons are of no consequence to his excellent presentation on C# and .Net itself.
Rating: 5
Summary: Need to get another copy
Comment: I originally bought this book for my team as a reference, but I'm finding that I use this book all the time now. The integration with Visual Studio is really cool, and keeps the book at my fingertips at all times. It also has the most concise explanation of the C# language I've seen so far. Also, the book has coverage of controls and other topics that weren't covered even in the Petzold book. For one book to cover overloading of the true and false operators, as well as Windows Forms and XML, is simply amazing. Another thing - if there are any errors, my team hasn't found any yet, and we've been through the book front to back. Great work. This is easily the team's favorite Visual C#-specific .NET book, and I'm going to need another copy just so I can keep the it in my office. The only drawback is that I would have like to have a bit more detail on ASP.NET and Web Services, but all in all, this is a great book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Enumerator example has a lapsed listener problem
Comment: Overall I think this book makes a good reference. In chapter 7, I like the point about being careful to invalidate the enumerator if the underlying data gets changed. However, be aware the example has a "lapsed listener" problem. When the enumerator object is no longer needed, how is it supposed to be unsubscribed from the Changed event? If it never gets unsubscribed, then the garbage collector will not be able to remove it from the heap, thus you end up with a memory leak. Using System.WeakReference is one way to solve this problem.
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Title: Inside C#, Second Edition by Tom Archer, Andrew Whitechapel ISBN: 0735616485 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 24 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Programming Windows with C# (Core Reference) by Charles Petzold ISBN: 0735613702 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 19 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Microsoft Visual C# .NET Language Reference by Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Corporation ISBN: 0735615543 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 06 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming by Jeffrey Richter ISBN: 0735614229 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 23 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Microsoft ADO.NET (Core Reference) by David Sceppa ISBN: 0735614237 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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