Visual C# 2005 Recipes, Apress
Microsoft .NET Framework, ASP.NET, Visual C# (CSharp, C Sharp, C-Sharp) Developer Training, Visual Studio
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C# Online.NET Book Review
This isn't a book to teach you step by step an area of the C# language. What it is however is a great resource for tackling one of a number of different areas of the language when you are unsure of how to go about solving a particular problem.
To illustrate this, recently, the company I work for finally decided to adopt the .NET approach to Windows programming. We started designing the next application that was required and two areas of our design, we could see that we lacked the knowledge of implementing them in .NET. Thumbing through the pages of several books, left us with a vague idea of what to do until we got to Visual C# 2005 Recipes. Within a couple of hours we had the sample applications, within its pages, adapted to meet our needs, and the bare bones of our application working.
You normally don’t get this kind of productivity from a book, but this book isn’t normal. Whether you want a solution to access a database, communicate across a network, process xml or one of a hundred other recipes, then this is the book for you. This is a no nonsense approach that will help you quickly get a solution off the ground, increasing your productivity, and be well on the way to your desired application.
All of the recipes can be created using notepad and the command line compiler (csc.exe). So even if you do not have Visual Studio or even Visual C# Express installed, you can still compile all of the sample applications.
This is a great book to have on any developer’s shelf. I for one have reaped the benefits of the cost of the book on the companies first .NET application. I expect it will pay for itself many times over.
— Reviewed by Publicjoe
Bottom line
Visual C# 2005 Recipes will pay for itself and then some. This is a great resource for any developer.
Publisher's description
Mastering .NET development is as much about understanding the functionality of the .NET Framework as it is about the syntax and grammar of your chosen language. Visual C# 2005 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach recognizes this fine balance. This book meets your need for fast, effective solutions to the difficulties you encounter in your coding projects.
The recipes included in this book have been chosen and written with emerging pros in mind. The book features an equal balance of code and text. The supplied code gives you everything you need to solve the problem at hand, while the accompanying text provides supporting information.
This is a fully up-to-date reference for .NET 2.0 programmers. All code comes as a stand-alone Visual Studio 2005 solution. The book even covers advanced concepts that take you past basic recipe solutions--you'll be able to distill entire concepts and theories.
About the author(s)
Allen Jones is a Director of Principal Objective Ltd., a UK-based consultancy that provides independent IT strategy and solutions architecture services. Allen has more than 15 years of commercial experience, covering almost every aspect of IT; however, his true passion has been and always will be software development. In his spare time, Allen works—writing books and training material—or studies in an effort to find some form of enlightenment that has so far eluded him.
Matthew MacDonald is an author, educator, and MCSD developer who has a passion for emerging technologies. He is a regular writer for developer journals such as Inside Visual Basic, ASPToday, and Hardcore Visual Studio .NET, and he's the author of several books about programming with .NET, including User Interfaces in VB .NET: Windows Forms and Custom Controls, The Book of VB .NET, and .NET Distributed Applications. In a dimly remembered past life, he studied English literature and theoretical physics.
Rakesh Rajan is a software engineer from India working with US technology at Trivandrum. He is a Microsoft MVP in C# and an MCSD in .NET. He has been working in .NET for the past three years. You can find him posting at newsgroups, writing articles, working on his own projects, or speaking about .NET.
