In a world where developers are baying for the attention of customers, very
few people can claim to command that of the developer. Their blogs may be the
only clue to the higher level of thinking at which they operate, creating the
answers to when and why code works - in addition to the perennial how.
Whether he likes it or not, Don Box is one such system-meister. He may
dislike writing books, but when one of his comes out, people pay attention
and read. His first foray into the field, Essential COM, was the book that
explained how COM worked, and his latest, Essential .NET, does exactly the
same for the .NET Framework's Common Language Runtime (CLR).
After the first chapter's history of the evolution from COM to the CLR, the
book takes a bottom-up approach to the CLR, starting with a deep and detailed
six-chapter look into the core elements of the platform. Chapter 2... (more)
.NET - A Complete Development Cycle
It's all a question of balance. You can apply these words of wisdom to
managing software development projects and to planning out the contents of a
book, but it's still a tightrope walk. Gunther Lenz and Thomas Moeller have
learned this balance from their many software projects and now try to reflect
their experience in this book - which, as the cover says - covers the
complete development cycle of a .NET software project.
In almost minute detail then we are taken through the analysis, design,
implementation, deployment, and maintenance strategi... (more)
101 Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Applications
Buy this book! I know you haven't even read the review yet, but take my word,
if you are a VB.NET developer - particularly a beginning or intermediate
developer - then you are going to want to have this book on your bookshelf.
The book is divided into 16 chapters with 101 VB.NET applications grouped by
topics. The majority of the book deals with VB.NET in a client/server
environment, but there is some discussion of VB.NET in a Web environment as
well. These topics cover a great deal of information, such as: Working with
VB.NET Data acc... (more)
ASP.NET Developer's Cookbook
The .NET Framework can be a pleasure to use, but there's so much to master
that all too often we set out to do something basic only to realize we've
forgotten exactly how it's done. For this very reason the concept of
cookbooks exists references whose purpose is to refresh the memory and
suggest best practices.
Cookbooks often suffer from being too subjective. You tend to get a set of
tips specific to the author's line of work very useful in places and
sorely lacking in others. What makes this book different is that the ASP
Alliance has sourced t... (more)
Introductory books are always a challenge to create, especially when they
attempt to cover a topic as large as developing on the .NET Framework.
However, at 350 pages and $35, Microsoft .NET for Programmers does an
admirable job of skimming the cream off the surface and presenting it in a
way that's easy to comprehend and follow. Aimed at the experienced programmer
who needs a quick reference to .NET and the new technologies and concepts
surrounding it, Fergal Grimes' book is, for the most part, a must have.
A brief introduction to the .NET platform and the Common Language Runtime... (more)
Dan Maharry is a freelance techical writer and reviewer based in the UK.
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