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Title: Professional C# (Beta 2 Edition) by Simon Robinson, Burt Harvey, Craig McQueen, Christian Nagel, Morgan Skinner, Jay Glynn, Karli Watson, Ollie Cornes, Jerod Moemeka ISBN: 1-86100-499-0 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: June, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.99

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Average Customer Rating: 3.09 (33 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: Not reliable, too many errors
Comment: I generally have found the Wrox books pretty good, but after two weeks of using this book to help me with my first C#/.NET project, I am tempted to retire it. The quality is inconsistant (to many writers?) and I have found numerous typos and technical errors including code snippets that are incorrect and won't compile. For example, the section on Threads in Chapter 7 is poorly written, contains mistakes and leaves out important details like the fact that you can't directly use the lock() method to synchonrize a value type (which it implies you can).

I bought this book after buying the O'Reilly book "Programming C#" with the hope that the Wrox book would fill in some gaps. However, the O'Reilly book, though it is light in a few areas, is much more consistant, readable and accurate. Its too bad, because a lot of the content in the Wrox book is good, but there are too many mistakes to make it a reliable source of information.

This will probably be my last Wrox book.

Rating: 4
Summary: Certainly a good book with much useful information
Comment: It's one of the best C# and .NET Framework introductions, but the problem is that, due to the extent of the subject, all the books that try to cover the whole .NET Framework in a single (even if big) volume are missing the point from a professional programmer point of view.
To have all you need to fully understand the .NET Framework it's absolutely essential to have a collection of books that cover every single topic in detail and they are appearing now.
If you want to save money and buy a good introduction especially about C# or you are an experienced programmer that ventures out to .NET and C# for the first time then it could be a good purchase, otherwise it's better to focus on the topics you are looking for and buy more specialized publications. A professional programmer could find it a little superficial in some parts and due to the usual hurry of Wrox Press to be first on target a little disjointed in others.

Rating: 1
Summary: Avoid this book with all cost
Comment: The writing of this book is too verbose. Some sentences contain more than 5 commas and I thought I was getting lost. It's very difficult to know what the author is trying to explain with those extremly long sentences.
Many examples are not adequate at all. Some of the logics in the examples are so bad, I couldn't see why the author added these to the book. They rather confuse you than helps you understanding the concepts behind C#.

I am sorry but it does look like a rough draft rather than a finished book.

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