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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Well written tutorial, 23 Nov 2002
This is a very nice introduction to the C# language using Visual Studio.NET. Although the book is referred to as a "Core Reference" it is not a reference in the typical sense. Microsoft Press also publishes a "Step By Step" book on the same topic which is a basic introduction for the inexperienced programmer. This book is a more advanced tutorial, more suitable for a programmer with Java or C++ experience. However, it is not a complete introduction to the language. Several major topics are missing including regular expressions, inner classes, and, most surprisingly, I/O. The book does cover a wide range of features in .NET and does a nice job of explaining how to use these features in Visual Studio.NET. The first half of the book is an introduction to C# starting with the basics and going up to threading and debugging. The second half of the book covers topics such as creating windows and web forms, ADO.NET, XML, and web services. The section on windows forms is the most complete while the other topics are covered lightly. Overall, the book is generally well written and well edited. I found no obvious mistakes. The book is in hardcover and comes with a CD containing all the code and a DVD with a 60 day version of Visual Studio.NET. The book is not as complete as the O'Reilly C# book but because it is more fully integrated with Visual Studio, may be more useful to most developers.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Get a glance of C# and .NET, 11 Sep 2002
The book is an introduction to the various topics you might be interested in about programming with the .NET framework and to the C# language itself.First, it describes the C# language in some detail, allowing you to write console applications with the help of the new language features and the classes included in .NET, stressing the Object-Oriented nature of the language and applying the tools included in Visual Studio .NET. Follows an introduction to Windows Forms, that will put you just in the point to write GUI programs, letting you know about the most typical controls in a typical form, Windows events handling and a first glance of GDI+. Finally, chapters about ADO.NET (database access) and XML.NET, detailed enough. Something about programming for the Web, as well. Read this book if you want to learn C# for programming for Windows. Moreover, read it to discover the new .NET. But, really, read the two chapters about ADO.NET and XML.NET, simply great. I have written my first complex Windows application with the information in this book, it works, and it looks well. It is supposed that you already know to program in C and that you are introduced to the Object-Oriented paradigm, better if to C++. Under this assumptions, the book is completely straightforward. Without them, it is useless, try another one.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Well written tutorial, 27 Nov 2002
This is a very nice introduction to the C# language using Visual Studio.NET. Although the book is referred to as a "Core Reference" it is not a reference in the typical sense. Microsoft Press also publishes a "Step By Step" book on the same topic which is a basic introduction for the inexperienced programmer. This book is a more advanced tutorial, more suitable for a programmer with Java or C++ experience. However, it is not a complete introduction to the language. Several major topics are missing including regular expressions, inner classes, and, most surprisingly, I/O. The book does cover a wide range of features in .NET and does a nice job of explaining how to use these features in Visual Studio.NET. The first half of the book is an introduction to C# starting with the basics and going up to threading and debugging. The second half of the book covers topics such as creating windows and web forms, ADO.NET, XML, and web services. The section on windows forms is the most complete while the other topics are covered lightly. Overall, the book is generally well written and well edited. I found no obvious mistakes. The book is in hardcover and comes with a CD containing all the code and a DVD with a 60 day version of Visual Studio.NET. The book is not as complete as the O'Reilly C# book but because it is more fully integrated with Visual Studio, may be more useful to most developers.
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