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A Programmer's Guide to .NET

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This book appears to be targeted at programmers who are familiar with object-oriented programming, but not necessarily familiar with Microsoft's development tools. It allows such programmers a way to explore most of the .NET platform apart from the Visual Studio IDE. Programmers primarily familiar with VB or Visual Studio would probably be better served by another book. Programmers more familiar with Java, Delphi, Perl, etc. will find this book a very good introduction to .NET.

The book covers all major areas from the core workings of the Common Language Runtime to web services. The general pace of the book is quick and broad. It assumes you already know the general topic and just want to know what classes, methods, etc. the .NET framework has to address the issue. There are numerous code examples written in VB.NET, but these are very easy to translate into another .NET language if desired.

As stated above, this book will be well received by an experienced C++, Delphi, or Java programmer who wants a strong overview before committing to the .NET platform. It is the best book I've seen towards that end. It is definitely not for programmers who primarily drop controls on a form and then write a few event handlers for them.

My main criticism of the book is lack of a corresponding web site to check for/report errata and obtain the example code found throughout the book. (There is no CD either.) While the programmers reading this book should have no problems debugging the code, they also don't need more keyboarding experience. --Reviewed by Greg S.

This book gives a good understanding of what .NET is and what you can do with .NET classes. It is a good reading for all who wants to develop .NET application or study VB .NET, C# .NET, etc - before creating applications, you need to understand the appropriate platform, and this book definitely can help with it. I am not a novice in programming, and found it very useful.

The book covers most of the building blocks of the .NET platform, such as the Language Runtime, Framework Class Library, ASP .NET Web Form, Server and HTML Controls, Windows Forms, GDI, ADO .NET, XML and Web Services.

The book's style is more like a manual due to the abundant use of bullet points. It's good for those who'd like to skip the theories and get down to the semantics of the .NET platform fast.

It does not stand out compared with some other .NET books because it does not go deep enough in each topic. Sometimes, I feel like reading an abridged version of the Visual Studio Online Help Topics with simple sample codes added.

I'd like to suggest that practical, more in-depth solutions be provided as examples for using the .NET platform. -- Reviewed by Timothy D.

This book seems me to be definitely useful. It allows to understand what Microsoft .NET is and what you can do with .NET Framework classes. I think this is a necessary reading before you begin to study VB .NET, C# .NET, and so on - before creating applications, it is better to understand the platform used for this. I recommend it to all developers who wants to know more about .NET or to begin writing .NET applications.