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This
book appears to be targeted at programmers who are familiar with
object-oriented programming, but not necessarily familiar with Microsoft's
development tools. It allows such programmers a way to explore most of the
.NET platform apart from the Visual Studio IDE. Programmers primarily
familiar with VB or Visual Studio would probably be better served by another
book. Programmers more familiar with Java, Delphi, Perl, etc. will find this
book a very good introduction to .NET.
The book covers all major areas
from the core workings of the Common Language Runtime to web services. The
general pace of the book is quick and broad. It assumes you already know the
general topic and just want to know what classes, methods, etc. the .NET
framework has to address the issue. There are numerous code examples written
in VB.NET, but these are very easy to translate into another .NET language if
desired.
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As
stated above, this book will be well received by an experienced C++, Delphi,
or Java programmer who wants a strong overview before committing to the .NET
platform. It is the best book I've seen towards that end. It is definitely
not for programmers who primarily drop controls on a form and then write a
few event handlers for them.
My main criticism of the book
is lack of a corresponding web site to check for/report errata and obtain the
example code found throughout the book. (There is no CD either.) While the
programmers reading this book should have no problems debugging the code,
they also don't need more keyboarding experience.
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