C#: Your Visual Blueprint for Building .Net Applications (With CD-ROM) [Paperback]

Eric Butow (Author), Thomas Ryan (Author), maranGraphics (Author)

Book Description

Series: Visual (Software) | Publication Date: November 15, 2001

Each step in this book is displayed with callouts to help you see exactly where the action takes place on the screen. This book covers over 100 tasks, including using attributes, operators, and classes; documenting code with XML, using arrays, building forms, programming Web services, using Windows designers and macros, troubleshooting, and editing.

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From the Back Cover

Welcome to the only guidebook series that takes a visual approach to professional-level computer topics. Open the book and you'll discover step-by-step screen shots that demonstrate over 100 key C# programming tasks, including:

• Employing class inheritance
• Including event-handling methods
• Authoring a component
• Working with strings
• Declaring abstract properties
• Adding Web forms and controls
• Adding multidimensional arrays
• Processing XML comments
• Creating workgroup-enabled applications
• Managing the integrated debugger

Extra Apply It

• "Apply It" and "Extra" sidebars highlight useful tips
• High-resolution screen shots demonstrate each task
• Succinct explanations walk you through step by step
• Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules

.NET development tools on CD-ROM!

• TextPad and Antechinus C# Editor shareware
• Trial versions of VMWare Workstation and MineC#sweeper
• Plus all sample code and an e-version of the book

System requirements: PC running Windows 98 or later. See the "What's on the CD-ROM" appendix for details and complete system requirements.

About the Author

Eric Butow is the president and CEO of E.E. Butow Communications LLC (www.eebutow.com), a technical communications firm based in Roseville, California. Butow is also the author of several other Hungry Minds books including Master Visually Windows 2000 Server and FrontPage 2002 Weekend Crash Course.

Tommy Ryan graduated from Clemson University with a degree in Chemical Engineering. Tommy has over twelve years of technical project experience and over four years of pure software consulting experience. Tommy's area of focus is consulting for Microsoft Internet technologies, including Microsoft ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server 2000, BizTalk Server 2000, and Commerce Server 2000. Tommy has used several processes for software development, including variants of the Rational Unified Process, and the Microsoft Solutions Framework. On projects, Tommy normally plays the role of Technical Lead. His certifications include MCSE, MCSD, MCT, and MCP + Internet. Tommy is a recent instructor of MSF Design, Microsoft Site Server 3.0, Interdev 6.0, and several of the Visual Basic 6.0 classes. Tommy is the co-author of "ASP.NET: Your visual blueprint for creating Web applications on the .NET framework." You can contact Tommy at [e-mail] and learn more about him at http://www.threewill.com/people/tryan.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Visual (November 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 076453601X
• ISBN-13: 978-0764536014
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,371,243 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Eric is the CEO of Butow Communications Group (BCG), a Web design and online marketing firm in Jackson, California. Eric has authored or co-authored 17 technology books since 2000.

His latest titles include User Interface Design for Mere Mortals from Addison-Wesley, How to Succeed in Business Using LinkedIn from AMACOM, Blogging to Drive Business from Que, Droid Companion from Wiley, and My Samsung Galaxy Tab from Que.

When Eric isn't writing or running his business, you'll catch him enjoying time with friends, enjoying the weather of the Sierra foothills, and helping his parents run their infant and toddler daycare business.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor use of iIlustrations with examples, August 16, 2002

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This review is from: C#: Your Visual Blueprint for Building .Net Applications (With CD-ROM) (Paperback)

I am almost to the end of the book
I liked the blueprint for c++.net but this copy for
c# had alot of illustrations on finding information
on msdn and led the reader away from the purpose of the
book
The examples were not really numbered according to the
chapters. There was a very bad coverage on the forms
in the book with bad and non working examples. Poor use of illustrations for 'set and get
features with no working examples'.
There was alot of errors in 30% of the examples.
I am down to the last 4 chapters and have yet to be
impressed as a beginner of C#.
I have already covered the wrox beginner c# so I was
expecting material of the same calibre but instead
this had turned to be a waste of time
for the 10/15 chapters of the book

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I want my money back, June 20, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: C#: Your Visual Blueprint for Building .Net Applications (With CD-ROM) (Paperback)

I thought it was a beginner book, maybe the pics are but the code [is bad]. Doesn't explain any of the examples very well. Not a very good book.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars nothing good to say, November 19, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: C#: Your Visual Blueprint for Building .Net Applications (With CD-ROM) (Paperback)

Wow!!! This book is really badly written. I was impressed by their ASP book as an introductory crash course and it worked because ASP is easy anyway. But C# and object oriented programming seem to be beyond the authors' understanding. Everything is referred to as a box. I have 6 years of OO programming and even I found it difficult to read and understand. It is Repetitive. Based on old beta .NET. Not organized. Topics mixed all over the place. Confusing. Repetitive. Some sentences just stop halfway through. The real world objects they compare to are a joke. The same facts are mentioned over and over again in the same confusing way. Jargon is used and facts are thrown in at random but with no explanations. I wish I had read other people's comments before I bought it. Did I mention it is repetitive?