The Book of Visual Studio .NET (Paperback)

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Comprehensive guide to developing Internet applications with Visual Studio.NET.

The Book of Visual Studio .NET surveys each .NET server and related technologies, with a focus on Visual Studio 7 (VS7). Hands-on examples cover building forms, data retrieval, moving to COM+, and implementing web services. Other key issues and solutions include upgrading from Visual Basic, source control services, and remoting.

About the Author

Robert B. Dunaway, MCSD and MCSE works as a system architect in software development for Strategic Data Systems. He is currently guiding small and medium size companies through the transition from COM to .NET. He lives in Cincinnati, OH.

Product Details

• Paperback: 456 pages
• Publisher: No Starch Press; 1 edition (September 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1886411697
• ISBN-13: 978-1886411692
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,075,949 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Badly Named, But Very Serious and Very Useful, April 19, 2003

By	David Gurgel (Roseland, New Jersey United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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The title, "The Book of Visual Studio .NET," is misleading. The book is not an in-depth guide to using Visual Studio and barely touches on extending and customizing Visual Studio. A better title would have been "A Developer's Accelerated Introduction To .NET." It assumes the reader is a working developer, new to .NET, and moves at a brisk pace. Only one of twelve chapters focuses on the Visual Studio tools although Visual Studio is used throughout to design, code, compile, run, and trouble-shoot examples for nearly every topic. After brief disappointment (I wanted a Visual Studio handbook), I read the book cover to cover and learned something in each chapter after more than two years of heavy reading and significant development effort with .NET. If I taught a course on .NET, this would be my text!

Most of the .NET landscape is explored in the 369 pages - including: Visual Studio, the .NET framework and CLR, VB.NET, Windows forms, web forms, web services, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, XML, and COM interoperability. But C# and C++ are given almost no space.

Design and code samples are numerous and are no longer than needed to demonstrate the essential concepts. You will want to be sitting at your computer with a full deck of .NET available - Visual Studio, IIS, and SQL Server. The code can be downloaded.

This is probably an ideal book for someone crossing over from the Java world or moving on from older Micsrosoft technologies. If you are quite expert in other OOP technologies but new to .NET, two days with this book will get you started on your first .NET project or prepare you for a .NET job interview.

This is the author's first book; he is an experienced system architect working in .NET and COM. The publisher, No Starch Press, is small and new but headed by one of the Apress (serious books for serious people) founders. Their site suggests a bunch of San Francisco guys willing to put away their Linux and Java for a grudging review of the enemy's (Microsoft's) armored division. But I could still hear one of them say, "Microsoft .NET is not even in use within one hundred miles."

Nothing was too hard and nothing was too easy. Definitely no starch!

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Full of mistakes, December 30, 2002

By	Marcus F. Schluper "marc.schluper" (Beaverton, OR United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

It looks like this book was written hastily. Misspellings and clumsy use of language clutter the pages. I am sure nobody read this book thoroughly before it was published. It refers to a CD several times in the text, but there is no CD included. On the last page it refers to a website for source code - nothing there. Its title is "Visual Studio .NET," while most of the text is about a zillion of other topics. The examples are simple but they are needlessly verbose and contain cut/paste errors. The MCAD/MCSD Self Paced Training Kits offer much more quality and cover Visual Studio much more thoroughly.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars DEMYSTIFY VISUAL STUDIO .NET WITH THIS TEXT, January 15, 2003

By	reviewer (Zurich, Switzerland.) - See all my reviews

To the delight of most beginners (and intermediate learners), this book handled the basics of Visual Studio .NET very well.
Chores like typing codes, creating projects; as well as compiling and debugging methods received generous attention.
Also, many advanced learners will appreciate how some sections of this book (diligently) treated the most recent .NET technologies, which are currently being applied in the popular Visual Studio 7.
Overall, this text is a well-composed book which is likely to give newcomers all the accommodation that they may need without disappointing the more advanced learners.