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

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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

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.

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?

This book is based on the Beta release of C# and is is full of typos, errors, and misprints. The screen shots at the bottom of each page have been reduced to the point where they are hard to read. Since C# is a new programming language, it appears that the authors did not know C# as well as they should have or the publisher was in a hurry to get this book to market. When Visual Studio.Net was in the beta, a lot of companies tried to saturate the market with C#, Visual Basic, ASP, and ADO books. This book is not up to par with the usual Maran Graphics high quality. Your dollars would be be wisely spent elsewhere. I would recommend Robert Oberg's "Introduction to C# using .Net" instead. Hopefully the authors and publisher of this book are working on a "Second edition" to correct the issues. The idea of "virtual blueprint" is good but this book needs to be editted and the bugs removed.

I am quite dissapointed over this book. I thought it would be a beginners book, but it turned out to be a book with many absurd repetitions and examples which won't help you with any understanding. It's actually not a learning book, but rather small step by step tutorials on how to do things.

I was looking for a book that would explain how to use C# as well as Visual Studio in a fairly basic way. From the way the book starts off by describing how to use Visual Studio, I'd assumed it would be at a reasonably low level.

However, the book seems to tackle some things at a really basic level (how to start Visual Studio off, giving pictures of where to go on the start menu...if you really need a picture of that, you probably shouldn't be near Visual Studio in the first place!). It then goes on to describe some bits in a good way, but then misses out on others.

They try to demonstrate some basic techniques in C# by showing a small snippet of code. This would be quite good if:

(i) they told you what the code was actually trying to do (for instance, they tell you how to 'reverse the boxing process', at page 43, but don't actually explain what boxing is until page 104)

(ii) the code examples look like something you can actually type into visual studio and compile. Well, you can but then you have to work out where the errors are. I've learnt a lot about how to correct code, but I'd rather correct my own code than someone elses (maybe they just have Visual Studio C# set up differently...i don't know, i'm just beginning!)

This is a shame, because the book does seem to move along at a reasonable pace and get to fairly detailed stuff that would be useful. There certainly seems to be a gap in the computer book market for this sort of book (some people find it difficult to learn from a book that looks like a telephone directory)

I own many of these so called Read Less-Learn More books. Most of them I have found to be excellent for getting up to speed quickly on the subject. This one on C# on the other hand is terrible. It is mostly concerned with how Visual Studio.net works and how to look up documentation. When it does talk about the language, terms and techniques are all over the map with no order that I could find. The pictures on the pages (VISUAL)are so small that you need a microscope to read them. Also how many pages are needed to show someone how to open a new project!!!
I got some value from some sections like strings, but that was about the extent of it. There are better sharp books out there.

this is book is very clearly laid out as with other
visual blueprint books
there are however some interesting examples in the
book which do not work which makes it very fustrating.
In addition, there is alot of repeated information
and too many pages wasted on how to look up for
documentation.

the book however does give the reader the ability
enough information to follow up with a more advanced book
as intended