A so-so introduction to VB.NET
This book might serve as a decent introduction to VB.NET and some basic .NET concepts. It does provide some useful guidelines for VB6 programmers to migrate to VB.NET by highlighting the key differences between the two. However, if you have a strong OO
foundation (especially if you are a hardcore VB6 and C++ programmer), you won't get much out of it. ASP.NET and ADO.NET are covered in roughly 6 pages each, and they certainly don't help too much either.The examples in this book are terribly formatted. The indentations are inconsistant, and program segments are not properly aligned in most cases, and that makes the code very irksome to read. That is truely unprofessional, considering the examples are mostly under 20 lines. I can't imagine myself reading badly formatted code like that for a few pages -- I would probably tear the book apart.
Hardcore developers? Look elsewhere, you deserve a better book.
Good Book for .net foundation
This book provides gives an excellent foundation for .net development. Everything is described at a level that is easy to understand. I bought it several months after .net was out and it was definitely useful to me. If you are looking for book as a good foundation for your start to .net development, then this is it.
Project Manager
This book is a brilliantly written learning tool. Shapiro takes an excellent approach to explaining the technology from an OO point of view by explaining the synergy between theoretical knowledge combined with a right amount of practical code examples to strengthen the point. In particular, one example tends to stand out in my mind where Shapiro illustrates the methodology behind how C# and VB objects interface with each other.
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