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| Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform, Fourth Edition (Windows.Net) | 
 enlarge | Author: Andrew Troelsen
Publisher: Apress
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 1151
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 4
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1370
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.2
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 7 x 2.4
ISBN: 1590598849
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9781590598849
ASIN: 1590598849
Publication Date: November 12, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 Almost Too Much August 1, 2008
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
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.
Interesting detail, useful examples, poor editing July 18, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I turned to this book after getting frustrated with "Professional C# 2008" from Wrox Press. Each book provides detail that the other leaves out, but this one is better at revealing what goes on under the hood. The editing in this book is worse than in the other one. In fact, I have the impression that it was not edited at all. This one is better at illustrating points with examples, but some of the examples are unnecessarily complicated. The fact that this book is hardcover is a point in its favor.
 A real must have July 14, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
 Useful but no advanced material. Bloated writing style June 22, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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
Very comprehensive and readable June 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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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