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Title: Visual Basic .NET Threading Handbook by Tobin Titus, Fabio Claudio Ferracchiati, Srinivasa Sivakumar, Kourosh Ardestani, Tejaswi Redkar, Sandra Gopikrishna ISBN: 1-86100-713-2 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.6 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Nice book, but some of code has errors
Comment: The book is very good. Especially the Synchronization and the Scalability chapters. Chapter 1 is fine, but the code in chapter 1 is not edited properly. The editors haven't done a good job in correcting gramatical errors. But, I recommend this book if you want to learn threading in .Net. This book has some good end-to-end examples that show the importance of threading.
Rating: 3
Summary: With better examples it would have earned more stars
Comment: Currently this is the only .NET book that addresses Threading and nothing else. Furthermore, it targets VB developers and as such, it is bound to be a success (although apart from the code listings there isn't much VB-specific about it). It deserves the handbook title as it comes in 240 smaller than A4 pages and I think it is good value for money. It must be said that there isn't much in the Threading namespace that isn't covered in the book, although not all classes/methods get the same coverage and the book could have been even smaller in my opinion.
It is divided in 7 chapters. The first chapter is a good introduction to threading but a lot more could be said on AppDomains. The second & third chapters are the core of the book introducing the threading namespace, the Thread class along with almost all of its methods and the synchronization techniques available (Monitor, ReadWriterLock, Manual and AutoResetEvent, Mutex and Interlocked). This is all good stuff and if it weren't for the very basic examples, it would be excellent.
Chapter 4 is titled Design Patterns but don't get your hopes high. Not only it does not include design patterns (according to the common definition of the term) but it discusses the STA & MTA threading models in such a way that the reader may be left confused. This includes factual errors and bad grammar. It then usefully introduces 3 threading models (Main & Worker, Peer, and Pipeline models) but they are really let down by the respective accompanying examples. The (many) authors have tried to describe a single code example by retrofitting the 3 models to it each time; they should have introduced a different example per threading model as applicable.
Chapter 5 describes the Thread Pool and makes good reading. I was looking forward to the 6th chapter on debugging/tracing threads but there was only a generic description of debugging for VS.NET, which in my opinion, could have been omitted altogether. The book ends with a complete example that uses the classes from the Net namespace.
Besides any criticism you find above and the 3 star rating that reflects the quality of the work, I do recommend this book to .NET developers who are new to threading.
Rating: 3
Summary: good: incomplete downloads
Comment: the people who gave this book 3 starts are very close
The books does demonstrate the basics very well,
but when it comes to the interesting pieces the
download examples were missing
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Title: Visual Basic .NET Reflection Handbook by James Hart, Benny Mathew, Syed Fahad Gilani, Michael J. Gillespie, Andy Olsen ISBN: 1861007590 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: 24 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Visual Basic .NET Windows Services Handbook by Brian Patterson, William Sempf, Richard Conway, Robin Dewson ISBN: 1861007728 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Visual Basic .NET Remoting Handbook by Jon Pinnock, David Curran, Andy Olsen ISBN: 186100740X Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Visual Basic .NET Code Security Handbook by Eric Lippert ISBN: 1861007477 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: 23 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Visual Basic .NET Class Design Handbook by Andy Olsen, Damon Allison, James Speer ISBN: 1861007086 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: 15 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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