Microsoft Visual C#.NET 2003 Kick Start [Paperback]

Steven Holzner (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 4, 2003

Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003 Kick Start is a rapid-progression tutorial that presents the C# language to working programmers who are already familiar with another programming language or tool. This book speeds through basic concepts and focuses on practical examples showing the advantages of C# .NET 2003 in ASP programming, application design and creation, and .NET Web Services development. While Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003 Kick Start assumes no knowledge of C# or the .NET Framework, it skips the handholding and basic programming instruction associated with entry-level tutorials. Full of code examples, tips, and profession insights, this book is about maximum payoff with minimum effort for the working programmer who wants to use Visual C# .NET 2003 now.

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Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003 Kick Start is a rapid-progression tutorial that presents the C# language to working programmers who are already familiar with another programming language or tool. This book speeds through basic concepts and focuses on practical examples showing the advantages of C# .NET 2003 in ASP programming, application design and creation, and .NET Web Services development. While Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003 Kick Start assumes no knowledge of C# or the .NET Framework, it skips the handholding and basic programming instruction associated with entry-level tutorials. Full of code examples, tips, and profession insights, this book is about maximum payoff with minimum effort for the working programmer who wants to use Visual C# .NET 2003 now.

About the Author

Steve Holzner is an award-winning author who has been writing about programming topics for over a decade. Using his trademark comfortable accessible, writing style, he¿s written 72 books on a variety of programming topics that have sold well over a million total copies. He¿s a former contributing editor of PC Magazine, graduated from MIT, and received his Ph.D. at Cornell. He¿s been on the faculty of both MIT and Cornell, and also teaches corporate seminars around the country.

His recent books include:

• Inside XML, 0-7357-1020-1, $49.99, New Riders, November 2000.
• Inside JavaScript, 0-7357-1285-9, $49.99, New Riders, August 2002.
• Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic .NET in 21 Days, Not Yet Published.

Product Details

• Paperback: 624 pages
• Publisher: Sams (July 4, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672325470
• ISBN-13: 978-0672325472
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,397,621 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Steven Holzner is an award-winning author who has written extensively on Ajax and JavaScript. With over 100 titles published, he's sold over a million copies of his books and been translated into 16 languages. As a former faculty member of MIT and Cornell, he teaches corporate seminars around the country.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No wasted time with this one, November 24, 2004

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Lloyd W. Mcfarlin (Denver, CO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft Visual C#.NET 2003 Kick Start (Paperback)

For any programmer coming over from another language, I really think this book offers the most bang for the buck (and for your time). I'm a VB6 programmer who wasted a lot of time and money on other books that either offer too much hand-holding (next to no code, everything through forms designer) and wasted time on extensive examples building software I'll never use or focused only on console C# applications with no explanation of topics like ADO.NET, winforms, etc. I need to use C# at work and like many programmers, I'm busy and have little time to waste. Yet, I also needed a comprehensive book because the real world of business programming requires the use of data-access technologies (ADO.NET), security, network technologies, etc. This book succeeds on all counts. The coverage is surprisingly comprehensive and details are well fleshed out. Even using ADO.NET in code is covered while many other books only cover using it through form controls in Visual Studio (anyone who writes database-connected applications knows that you really need a high level of control of shaping the data before you can present it). Nothing is dwelled upon for long so be warned that the book does move fast and info is densely packed into each page.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for people who know some programming, October 25, 2004

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Stephane Larochelle (Gatineau, Quebec, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft Visual C#.NET 2003 Kick Start (Paperback)

This is a very solid book. It assumes you know the basics of programming like loops, modules and the likes... If you are familiar with any regular programming language (like C, C++, Java, PERL, python, ruby, even shell scripting) then this books is probably your best bet to learn C# quickly.

There is no whole chapters made to get you to write a "for" loop here, you must have programming concepts to really benefit from this book.

As a programmer, I really enjoyed it and was able to get to work quickly on C# programs. If you are totaly new to programming, get another book to get your feet wet before jumping on this one.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great!, April 28, 2008

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Ashraf Eassa "Ash" (New Hampshire, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft Visual C#.NET 2003 Kick Start (Paperback)

As an experienced C++ programmer, I wanted to try C# out of curiosity. Obviously, I didn't want to read long-winded explanations of the most basic programming constructs -- I just wanted syntax and effective ways to use it. This book fulfills this purpose well. Within a few days, I was able to start writing real, useful C# applications. And, since I'm a game developer, I was able to find Managed DirectX tutorials and I've already written the fundamentals of a C# game engine!

So, if you know how to code, this book will show you how to do it in C#. Thanks, Steven Holzner!