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Title: Practical Standards for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET by James Foxall, James D. Foxall ISBN: 0-7356-1356-7 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 31 July, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Perfect for beginners and Managers alike
Comment: With a new way of coding VB comes new ways of making the environment more effecient for programmers.
This book is full of good advice about programming practices in the .NET world. The advice is sound and could be even used as an intro since the author goes through great pains to make everthing clear while concise.
Should you follow all the advice? Depends on you. I don't think you should follow anybody's suggestions without some critical thought but the suggestions here are definitely worth taking a look at and debating. VB.NET ain't VB6 and you should not code and organize your code the way you did in VB6. Foxall gives us some good, pratical advice on how to code. More importantly, he gives great advice on how to organize code (something programmers tend to be bad at doing).
The only surprise was the recommendation to use Hungarian notation. I find it amusing that people get so hung up on Hungarian notation (I happen to like it but would not miss it if I never used it again). It's just a way to try to making code more readable when using local variables. If you think it gets in the way, then you shouldn't use it. Other than that confusing suggestion (MS says don't use Hungarian but you ARE free to use or not to use whatever convention you like) the book is flawless.
This is a book that every team doing VB.NET development should discuss if not follow. Standards are important, most of the software building cycle is in testing, debugging and modifying existing code. His standards are something to draw on as we come up with the best practices for our particular solutions.
Rating: 4
Summary: An excellent point to start - we could use the e-book
Comment: No book on coding style and standards,can be the bible for every programmer alive. Usually, reading these books helps us decide what we do wrong, what is a better practice and what we do not like. Experienced programmers may adopt fewer recommendations from the book than less experienced ones.
From this point of view this book can be invaluable to every open-minded developer. You can build on it and have your own standards in no time.
I believe the attack and the single star rating by "geek" is totally unjust, based on a zealot's attitute against Hungarian notation. In "Design Guidelines for Class Library Developers", under "Naming Guidelines" .NET team gives its suggestions on naming Namespaces, Classes, Interfaces, Methods, Properties etc. To geek's surprise .NET team RECOMMENDS Hungarian Notation for Static Fields!
The Author of this book has a whole chapter "When Not to use Hungarian Notation" whickh agrees 100% with .NET guidelines.
I gave it only 4 stars because it does not include a CD with the electronic version of the book(many other MSPress books do) and I had to do a lot of typing to make my own standards for my team.
Microsoft and James give us the e-book!
Rating: 2
Summary: Did you say VB.NET or VB6?
Comment: I bought this book, because I had the VB6 one and was wondering a similar material, but adapted to .NET. If fails short and it's just decorating my desk. The author keeps the same guidelines, for example it recommends using Hungarian when Microsoft guidelines says DO NOT USE IT (even though it's a Microsoft Press book!). Take a look at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpgenref/html/cpconNETFrameworkDesignGuidelines.asp
Those guidelines are more PRACTICAL and useful than this book. And you know what? IT'S FREE!!!
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