Unlocking Microsoft C# V 2.0 Programming Secrets (Wordware Applications Library) (Paperback)

by Richard Braden (Author) "By the early 1960s several research laboratories and electronic firms around the world had demonstrated the ability to fabricate high-speed digital central processing units (CPUs)..." (more)
Key Phrases: Visual Studio, Microsoft Sans, Solution Explorer (more...)

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Product Description
This text is a handbook of instructions written for the programmer or analyst that shows how to insert common algorithmic functions in C# into one's source code. The code is listed on a companion CD for easy transfer to one's current C# program. The first 12 chapters discuss specifics of the Visual C# compiler: the integrated developer environment (IDE); moving projects from one location to another; passing information between windows; Visual C# code placement; classes, constructors, overloading, and helps; data types and declarations; conversions between data types; string manipulation and on-line data storage; branching and looping; and arithmetic.

About the Author
Richard Braden, Ph.D., is an aeronautical engineer, university professor, and author with over 30 years of experience in advanced programming on a host of different platforms and languages. Originally an instructor in the mathematics and aeronautics departments at the United States Air Force Academy, his professional work includes multiple assignments with the U.S. Air Force and a successful civilian career at Martin-Marietta. During his professional career, Dr. Braden continued to teach programming at various universities and community colleges across the country. He is currently retired and living in Denver, Colorado.

Product Details

• Paperback: 350 pages
• Publisher: Wordware Publishing, Inc. (December 25, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1556220979
• ISBN-13: 978-1556220975
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,334,823 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Author has to to more homework before writing a book., May 31, 2006

By	Goh Siang Hwee (Malaysia) - See all my reviews

The book is poorly structured and confusing the reader. Below is the example from the book.

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Line IA045 would place the locations in intLocation three times, but only the last entry would appear in intLocation when the loop ended.

2.
Lines IA042-045 are modified with lines IA046-049:


IA042: int intLocation = -1;

IA043: for(int kk = 0 ; kk < 12 ; kk++)
IA044: {
IA045: if(intArrayNumbers[kk] == intReferenceNumber)
IA046: {
IA047: intLocation = kk;
IA048: break;
IA049: }
IA050: }



3.
When the if statement in line IA045 is satisfied, then the break statement in line IA048 is executed. The break statement causes the program to exit from the if statement in line IA045 and the for statement in line IA043. So the next line executed is the one below IA050.
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The author explained a very simple for loop in a very difficult way to understand. Besides, i believe the author native language is not english. I really don't know what he want to express. The information is definitely out of date. For instance, this book encourage people to use hungarian notation where microsoft suggest eliminate hungarian long time ago.The naming convention is terrible. It doesn't follow the industry standard at all.

it seems to me the author is never write a real world application at all. I don't mean to hurt the author but i just hope he can do more homework before writing the book. At least read some others books from microsoft press, oreily, wrox, apress publishers. They are real world developers and take programming seriously.

Sorry for the 1 star and i think this is what the book reserve.