Professional C# (Programmer to Programmer) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Simon Robinson, Christian Nagel, Karli Watson, Jay Glynn, Morgan Skinner, Bill Evjen
Publisher: Wrox
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Pages: 1224
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.5 x 2.4
ISBN: 0764557599
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
UPC: 785555880795
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ASIN: 0764557599
Publication Date: June 2, 2004
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Product Description
What is this book about? C# is designed to work with .NET to provide a new framework for programming on the Windows platform. This comprehensive reference prepares you to program in C#, while at the same time providing the necessary background in how the .NET architecture works. In this all-new third edition, you’ll be introduced to the fundamentals of C# and find updated coverage of application deployment and globalization. You’ll gain a working knowledge of the language and be able to apply it in the .NET environment, build Windows forms, access databases with ADO.NET, write components for ASP.NET, take advantage of .NET support for working with COM and COM+, and much more. Professional C#, 3rd Edition, is the complete C# resource for developers, packed with code and examples that have been updated for the latest release—the .NET Framework 1.1 and Visual Studio .NET 2003. What does this book cover? Here is just a few of the things you'll discover in this book: - How to program in the object-oriented C# language
- Methods for manipulating XML using C#
- Integration with COM, COM+, and Active Directory
- How to write Windows applications and Windows services
- Distributed applications with .NET Remoting
- An understanding of .NET Assemblies
- How to generate graphics with C#
- Ways to control .NET security, and much more
Who is this book for? This book is for experienced developers who are already familiar with C++, Visual Basic, or J++. No prior knowledge of C# is required.
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Disappointing July 13, 2008
I am fine with the book's overview of C#, but quite disgruntled with its treatment of .NET details. I consulted the tome on three issues - database access, Windows Forms, and file read/writes - and in each case came away with no answers to a few basic, bread-and-butter questions. (If I had to rate coverage of the three topics, the grades would be B-, F and C). There has to be a better book.
 Looong Read February 24, 2007
I was disappointed for several reasons, especially since this book is labeled as being part of the "Programmer to Programmer" series:
1> Overly long with trite examples covering up the real essence. They often take several pages to convey an idea which, assuming the reader is an experienced programmer, should only take a few sentences.
2> That this is a collective effort shows. Some chapters are half-way decent, others are rather poor.
3> No help for the programmer on how to leverage existing code in C# .NET modules.
4> Very little on how things work, or why they are the way they are. This makes remembering the quirks of the language / framework rather difficult.
 Completes the Circle... September 19, 2006
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
I really feel that this book is under rated, it's a great book because it provides an enormous amount of content. I had the C# Beginning book by Karli Watson, one of the co-authors of this book, and even that book had an incredible amount of content in it. However, it really didn't have some of the things like multi-threading, regular expressions, delegates, event handling (callbacks), deadlocks, reflections, generics, concurrency, and such that I wanted to learn. These weren't easy concepts, and I couldn't find a tutorial that could enlighten me on these topics. So those are why this book completes the circle for me.
The only downside about this book is that the writing is actually not too friendly --- at least for me it isn't. Much like the earlier book, C# Beginner's it will not be something to read if you don't have a good incentive or a motivation. If you are a strolling mind, looking just to advance casually in C# get "CLR via C#, Second Edition (Paperback)" by Jeffrey Richter. His book provides an incredible amount of insight on C# and a lot of the important content this book has to offer, but in a much better writing style. I almost regretted getting this book over that one, but then I realized that Jeff's book didn't mention Regular Expression. Anyway, both books are very great for advancing with C#.
Another thing that I would like to address is that this book DOES start from bottom to top in terms of syntax; but, not so much in terms of theory. So you can learn C# language from bottom to top if you've already advanced to an OOP level in another language with this book. A lot of people underestimate the content in this book just because it goes over the fundamentals, that is DEAD WRONG... DO NOT underestimate the content in this book.........
In conlusion, I would say:
- Get this book if you have an direct incentive to learn something; or, if you intend to seriously use the contents within for a project.
- Get Jeffrey Richter's book, "CLR via C#, Second Edition" if you're just trying to probe for knowledge and insight on C#. His book provides great insight C# and covers all the important contents C# has to offer.
Too long - okay information April 22, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book did have understandable information and was a help to me when I first got it. However, it is way too long (and sometimes using more words than necessary to explain a thing can make it harder to understand.) Also, some of the things it said just aren't quite correct.
 Was OK in it times March 16, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
When this book first come out, there were NO good books on C# and the .NET framework, therefore I was glad I brought it as it is not the worse book I have read. However there are now lot better books on the market.
It is what you would expect from a book that was written by a LOT of different people in a very short length of time before anyone had any real file experience of the .NET platform.
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