A LINQ book to (probably) avoid
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Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008[^] I was expecting great things from this book, but after 3 days with it I'm highly disappointed. Given the "Pro" in the title, I was expecting very in-depth coverage of just about every feature of LINQ with extensive code examples. I think this snippet from Chapter 2 sums it up: "Merely being a consumer of LINQ does not require the developer to be very cognizant of expression trees. It is the vendor's developer who adds LINQ capability to a data storage product who needs to fully understand expression trees. Because of this, I don't cover them in any detail in this book." Which makes me wonder who this book is pitched at - it certainly isn't Pro's, and it isn't for beginners either. And given that there are better articles, samples and advice than this book available for free on CodeProject, I'm a bit put out that I parted with cash-money for it. It does have one redeemng feature - I found the Linq to Sql information quite good as a jumpstart, however as soon as EF reaches RTM I intend moving on to that, and this book doesn't cover Linq to Entities.
"On one of my cards it said I had to find temperatures lower than -8. The numbers I uncovered were -6 and -7 so I thought I had won, and so did the woman in the shop. But when she scanned the card the machine said I hadn't. "I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it." -Tina Farrell, a 23 year old thicky from Levenshulme, Manchester.
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Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008[^] I was expecting great things from this book, but after 3 days with it I'm highly disappointed. Given the "Pro" in the title, I was expecting very in-depth coverage of just about every feature of LINQ with extensive code examples. I think this snippet from Chapter 2 sums it up: "Merely being a consumer of LINQ does not require the developer to be very cognizant of expression trees. It is the vendor's developer who adds LINQ capability to a data storage product who needs to fully understand expression trees. Because of this, I don't cover them in any detail in this book." Which makes me wonder who this book is pitched at - it certainly isn't Pro's, and it isn't for beginners either. And given that there are better articles, samples and advice than this book available for free on CodeProject, I'm a bit put out that I parted with cash-money for it. It does have one redeemng feature - I found the Linq to Sql information quite good as a jumpstart, however as soon as EF reaches RTM I intend moving on to that, and this book doesn't cover Linq to Entities.
"On one of my cards it said I had to find temperatures lower than -8. The numbers I uncovered were -6 and -7 so I thought I had won, and so did the woman in the shop. But when she scanned the card the machine said I hadn't. "I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it." -Tina Farrell, a 23 year old thicky from Levenshulme, Manchester.
Oops. I recommended this one to you on another post. I have to say that I like this book, mainly because I can quickly dip into it if I need to top up on something. Oh well, I shall proceed to the conversing out of my buttocks then shall I?
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Oops. I recommended this one to you on another post. I have to say that I like this book, mainly because I can quickly dip into it if I need to top up on something. Oh well, I shall proceed to the conversing out of my buttocks then shall I?
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
Oops. I recommended this one to you on another post. I have to say that I like this book, mainly because I can quickly dip into it if I need to top up on something.
Yeah I just saw that :) I might be being entirely unfair as I'm not a patient or tolerant soul; however I'm just not finding this as accessible (or as dip-able) as I'd have hoped, and I also get the feeling that certain things have been skimmed over because the author couldn't keep up with all the changes between the betas. Still, tomorrow's another day!
"On one of my cards it said I had to find temperatures lower than -8. The numbers I uncovered were -6 and -7 so I thought I had won, and so did the woman in the shop. But when she scanned the card the machine said I hadn't. "I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it." -Tina Farrell, a 23 year old thicky from Levenshulme, Manchester.
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Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008[^] I was expecting great things from this book, but after 3 days with it I'm highly disappointed. Given the "Pro" in the title, I was expecting very in-depth coverage of just about every feature of LINQ with extensive code examples. I think this snippet from Chapter 2 sums it up: "Merely being a consumer of LINQ does not require the developer to be very cognizant of expression trees. It is the vendor's developer who adds LINQ capability to a data storage product who needs to fully understand expression trees. Because of this, I don't cover them in any detail in this book." Which makes me wonder who this book is pitched at - it certainly isn't Pro's, and it isn't for beginners either. And given that there are better articles, samples and advice than this book available for free on CodeProject, I'm a bit put out that I parted with cash-money for it. It does have one redeemng feature - I found the Linq to Sql information quite good as a jumpstart, however as soon as EF reaches RTM I intend moving on to that, and this book doesn't cover Linq to Entities.
"On one of my cards it said I had to find temperatures lower than -8. The numbers I uncovered were -6 and -7 so I thought I had won, and so did the woman in the shop. But when she scanned the card the machine said I hadn't. "I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it." -Tina Farrell, a 23 year old thicky from Levenshulme, Manchester.
martin_hughes wrote:
Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008[^] I was expecting great things from this book, but after 3 days with it I'm highly disappointed. Given the "Pro" in the title, I was expecting very in-depth coverage of just about every feature of LINQ with extensive code examples.
'Pro' is Latin and means something like 'for'. 'Pro LINQ' may be translated as 'Towards LINQ'.
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Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008[^] I was expecting great things from this book, but after 3 days with it I'm highly disappointed. Given the "Pro" in the title, I was expecting very in-depth coverage of just about every feature of LINQ with extensive code examples. I think this snippet from Chapter 2 sums it up: "Merely being a consumer of LINQ does not require the developer to be very cognizant of expression trees. It is the vendor's developer who adds LINQ capability to a data storage product who needs to fully understand expression trees. Because of this, I don't cover them in any detail in this book." Which makes me wonder who this book is pitched at - it certainly isn't Pro's, and it isn't for beginners either. And given that there are better articles, samples and advice than this book available for free on CodeProject, I'm a bit put out that I parted with cash-money for it. It does have one redeemng feature - I found the Linq to Sql information quite good as a jumpstart, however as soon as EF reaches RTM I intend moving on to that, and this book doesn't cover Linq to Entities.
"On one of my cards it said I had to find temperatures lower than -8. The numbers I uncovered were -6 and -7 so I thought I had won, and so did the woman in the shop. But when she scanned the card the machine said I hadn't. "I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it." -Tina Farrell, a 23 year old thicky from Levenshulme, Manchester.
Dynamic query creation and thus expression tree was the first time I tried to find out about LINQ when I was researching VS2008. So 1 more book to skip. Not that I am buying any books nowadays. Most of the content of books are what repeat of stuffs can be found on the net, and those deep stuffs that I needed, wont be mentioned in most books.