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Summary: Best Book To Learn C#
Comment: If only a few books could get six stars, this would be one of them! This book was easy to follow and with good, solid examples that could be typed in as you read along. The only problem is that now I expect too much from the other books that I read...no other book has been able to match this one!
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Summary: Almost Too Much
Comment: I needed to catch up on .NET 3 and 3.5, after reading reviews I selected this title. Being a very experienced developer I didn't want another start from the beginning and target everyone book.
I have mixed opinion on the book, while there is a ton of info here, I find myself spending lots of time skipping around and over stuff. I was disappointed with such little part of this very large book actually being on the '.NET 3.5 Platform'.
Experienced developers don't need a book, targeted to a 'platform', teaching object oriented programming theory. I would have much rather seen these chapters devoted to the 2008 VS IDE.
I think all of the info in the book is great and I am sure I will go back to various parts of the book to review 'old' stuff now and then. Generally speaking from a very experienced developer point of view I would guesstimate that I will only use 25% of the book.
To summarize, great general resource for lesser experienced developers not as good for the very experienced wanting to update 2008 .NET 3.5 skills.
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Summary: A real must have
Comment: If you can only buy one book this year and are a c# developer mate it this one.
Really get it and read it. It will change you.
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Summary: Useful but no advanced material. Bloated writing style
Comment: This is a useful book. It covers all major topics in c# - no mean accomplishment. The chapters are well designed with good examples. As a professional programmer, I find software technologies keep expanding and there are always new topics to learn. For those topics that I knew little about, this book was very useful however, the depth is limited and for those areas with which I was familiar, there was little new. My other objection is that the author's writing style seems to prefer three words where one would do the job. I often found myself rereading a paragraph several times only to realize that he was trying to convey a rather simple idea.
As other reviewers have said, this book does not provide advanced, in depth information but, perhaps because of that, it is very useful on topics where on needs a basic understanding
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Summary: Very comprehensive and readable
Comment: Very comprehensive. Low errata rate. For the most part, you can it read it wherever you are (i.e. you do NOT need to have VS running so that you can look through the "mystery" code that shows what the book does not.
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