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Microsoft Visual C#(TM) .NET Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft))
by John Sharp, Jon Jagger
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Microsoft Press (2002-01-23)
ISBN: 0735612897
EAN: 9780735612891
Dewy Decimal #: 005.133
Paperback: 621 pages
SKU: 08030425
Condition: Like New As issued n
Comments: Paperback include CD. Oversize Like new condition with no markings and no creases to spine or cover. Very slight wear to cover. Near fine copy.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
This title gives readers with previous Microsoft Visual C++ or Microsoft Visual Basic experience the foundation they need to hit the ground running with the versatile Microsoft Visual C# .NET object-oriented Web development language. Real-world programming scenarios and easy-to-follow, step-by-step exercises offer the fast and clear instruction readers need to begin creating stable, efficient business-level objects and system-level applications. Readers also get code samples on a companion CD-ROM to study and reuse in their own projects.
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Customer Reviews
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Very disappointing
Rating  (1)
Date: 2007-06-22
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Normally, I'd pick up a tech book like this one and use it and never comment. However, I found this book to be so useless, I feel compelled to comment. (Btw, I'm developing in VS 2005, desktop apps) I've been writing code for over 20 years and have learned (on-the-fly) more than a dozen languages, op sys, networks, etc. Bought this book as a beginner of c# - picked it up at least 10 times to look for something and never once found what I was looking for. If you're new to c#, get a different book. Also, there is plenty of help on and offline. The VS "intellisense" is the most helpful tool. I'm now, after a year, an accomplished C#/.net programmer, no thanks to this book. It is going in the trash as soon as I send this.
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Jump Start
Rating  (5)
Date: 2005-09-04
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
If you've never programmed before or come from a different programming language, this is the book for you. Explanations and samples are succinct. The only trouble is that when you've finished the book, you'll wish the author had written more. But all important topics for beginners are sufficiently covered. And the book is very readable as well.
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good first book on visual c#
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-05-24
4 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
I've been using Visual C++ 6.0 at work for the past few years and was looking for something to help me with transitioning to C# and .NET. I settled on the 2003 version of this book and was not disappointed. The title says it all really - it's a concise and tutorial-like introduction to C# programming using Visual Studio.NET. The book is very well organized with "how-to" summaries at the end of each chapter, and numerous notes/hints throughout that list the sometimes subtle differences between C++/Java and C#.
This was my first step-by-step book and I liked how the exercises were presented. In the early chapters, you are typically asked to open an existing project and make code or design modifications that demonstrate the topic at hand. This approach helps to speed things along and I didn't feel at any time that I was bogged down on any one chapter or exercise for too long. Before each exercise, I made a point of reviewing all of the application code first, including the forms code generated by Visual Studio. For example, as early as Chapter 2, I could see more or less how GUI event handlers are registered, even though I hadn't yet reached the section on WinForms or delegates.
One suggestion I do have for the authors in any future editions is to talk more about configuring your PC before doing any ADO.NET or ASP.NET programming, e.g., how to troubleshoot when things aren't working. Even though I had MSDE and IIS installed properly, I initially had problems creating the Northwind sample database, and also with creating new ASP projects in Visual Studio (VS needs to be able to connect to your IIS server first before it can create/open ASP projects). The book didn't help me much here (neither did Visual Studio's cryptic error messages) and I had to dig around on MSDN and CodeGuru to get things working.
With regards to content, there are a couple of noteworthy items. The chapter on value and reference types does a very good job of explaining the concepts using diagrams and sample code. The diagrams show you exactly what are the contents of stack versus heap memory as each line of sample code is executed. For novice programmers who have had trouble understanding reference types or concepts such as "boxing", I would recommend having a look at this chapter. Another section I liked was the sample exercise in the chapter on inheritance, which simulated a source file parser using the Visitor design pattern. The authors could have explained the program better though, by using class diagrams possibly.
Overall I am quite pleased with this book and the outcome of having gone through all of the exercises. Now it's time for me to look for something more advanced on topics such as threading, .NET remoting, GDI+, ...
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Great start for experienced OO programmers
Rating  (4)
Date: 2004-07-08
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
If you are familiar with Java, C++, Objective C, or SmallTalk, then this is a good starter primer for C#. This is particularly good for experienced Java developers that want to jump in, and get started on C#. The second part of the book is a solid primer on Windows Forms and other Windows specific bits of .NET. I recommend this title.
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Great Step by Step C# Primer
Rating (5)
Date: 2004-06-24
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I don't know why Amazon dumped all the reviews of this book, but this is the only book I'd take the time to re-review. Perhaps this is a newer edition, but I found no significant errors in the original. I believe samples work in both framework 1.0 and 1.1. Sharp and Jagger have produced an exceptionally readable, instructive, useful book that is the only one of eight I've read that I can honestly say I was sorry to finish. Every exercise was well written, taught me a major feature I needed to know, and made me eager to do more. The exercises are so well written I can refer back to them as guides to writing my own code but this is not primarily a reference book. I even got a reply to an email from John Sharp via his website. I'd buy anything along these lines he cares to publish! It's not the only book you may need, but should be among the first you read after you grasp the basics of the C# language and are ready to use Visual Studio.NET.
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