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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2768
EAN: 9780735613751
ISBN: 0735613753
Label: Microsoft Press
Manufacturer: Microsoft Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1576
Publication Date: May 17, 2002
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Sales Rank: 457530
Studio: Microsoft Press
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Rating:  - My Favorite
My favorite. Well written, understandable, to the point and easy to read. Read sequentially or use as a reference. Covers pretty much everything you need to know.
I prefer referring to his sections on ADO.NET (200 pages) and ASP.NET (330 pages) to using other books on these topics.
A big book that will impress your peers. Can be used for bicep curls and tricep extensions in a pinch.
If this is representative of Francesco Balena's work then I recommend anything ... Read More
Rating: - A Definitive Resource
When compared to other books on the subject, even those in the same MSPress series, this book is unmatched. The depth and quality of information is astounding.
Many programming books spend 500+ pages on basic concepts, fail to establish a foundation of knowledge and leave you in a position that prevents you from exploiting the technology. In many cases, you have read 500+ pages and have learned how to make a clock or a simple card game. Not so with this book.
It is obvious ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent
This book and .NET XML Web Services Step by Step by Adam Freeman and Allen Jones have answered virtually all of my questions about building production distributed database applications using XML Web services. If you're interested, you can download a sample of my working code at www.opointe.com
Rating: - Everything Under the Sun
This is the most through book on VB.Net I've ever found. It's a steep read, but if there are any dark corners of VB.Net that haven't had light shed on them, then you aren't useing VB to it's fullest potential, and you haven't read this book.
The current price of this book on Amazon right now (~50.00) makes it more than a steal with the amount of information in it. Espcially compared to the avarage cost of a class in any programming language.
Though the book is written for a programmer ... Read More
Rating: - The greatest, in the whole dot-Net panoply.
Even if I don't use VB Net, I enjoy that book: a "just" view in comparisons between dot-Net and VB6 (not always at 100% in favor of VB.Net), and insight, intelligence, and inner working we don't even see often, if not at all, even in C# books! There are two major weak points: Windows Forms (I recommend Chris Sells' book) and database (I suspect Francesco didn't entirely wrote these chapters, as the style is a little bit different in those chapters than the other parts of the book, anyhow, my impression), again too ... Read More
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