Favourite Visual Studio .NET book
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What exactly does a book on Visual Studio .NET cover? How to use the IDE, the built in tools, using the Server Explorer and the Wizard bits? Or does it also venture into the .NET Framework, and if so then how in depth and how does it choose, especially with .NET, the language for the samples? I just find books on IDEs like Visual Studio a bit strange. I fully understand a book on an IDE like Power Builder because the IDE is pretty much the whole of Power Builder anyway. I guess another question from this is; Just how much of VS.NET do you actually use? I reckon I don't use very much of it. Syntax Highlighting, Project/Solution Explorer, Intellisense and Debugging is about it. About the only one of those which an IDE book could help me out with is the Debugger. Is there enough arcane and hard to come buy knowledge on VS.NET to justify a book? And if so then why wasn't it in the IDE manual? I am just curious, as always :)
Paul Watson
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MSDN April 2003
Ditto.
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: Bad one, I might add. That wasn't my experience actually. I quite liked it, when I was starting the programming in .NET Regards, Venet. Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos.
You obviously haven't read Tom Archer's Inside C#.
Hawaian shirts and shorts work too in Summer. People assume you're either a complete nut (in which case not a worthy target) or so damn good you don't need to worry about camouflage... -Anna-Jayne Metcalfe on Paintballing
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What exactly does a book on Visual Studio .NET cover? How to use the IDE, the built in tools, using the Server Explorer and the Wizard bits? Or does it also venture into the .NET Framework, and if so then how in depth and how does it choose, especially with .NET, the language for the samples? I just find books on IDEs like Visual Studio a bit strange. I fully understand a book on an IDE like Power Builder because the IDE is pretty much the whole of Power Builder anyway. I guess another question from this is; Just how much of VS.NET do you actually use? I reckon I don't use very much of it. Syntax Highlighting, Project/Solution Explorer, Intellisense and Debugging is about it. About the only one of those which an IDE book could help me out with is the Debugger. Is there enough arcane and hard to come buy knowledge on VS.NET to justify a book? And if so then why wasn't it in the IDE manual? I am just curious, as always :)
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRobert Edward Caldecott wrote: My father-in-law calls yer man bits "weasels"
I don't use much of it either...the Class browser only comes in handy when I'm too lazy to open Reflector. The Dynamic Help usually gets tucked away in its corner...and external help is only open when I'm investigating new stuff. (Like System.DirectoryServices X|) The immediate window and the watch/locals window are my two main debugging tools. Since I work with SQL Server a lot, I'm always referring to the Server Explorer. Oh, and I have the outlining keyboard shortcuts memorized. Long live #region!
Hawaian shirts and shorts work too in Summer. People assume you're either a complete nut (in which case not a worthy target) or so damn good you don't need to worry about camouflage... -Anna-Jayne Metcalfe on Paintballing
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I don't use much of it either...the Class browser only comes in handy when I'm too lazy to open Reflector. The Dynamic Help usually gets tucked away in its corner...and external help is only open when I'm investigating new stuff. (Like System.DirectoryServices X|) The immediate window and the watch/locals window are my two main debugging tools. Since I work with SQL Server a lot, I'm always referring to the Server Explorer. Oh, and I have the outlining keyboard shortcuts memorized. Long live #region!
Hawaian shirts and shorts work too in Summer. People assume you're either a complete nut (in which case not a worthy target) or so damn good you don't need to worry about camouflage... -Anna-Jayne Metcalfe on Paintballing
David Stone wrote: Since I work with SQL Server a lot, I'm always referring to the Server Explorer. Well done on breaking away from Enterprise Manager. I still cannot get into the habit of using Server Explorer instead of Enterprise Manager.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRobert Edward Caldecott wrote: My father-in-law calls yer man bits "weasels"
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David Stone wrote: Since I work with SQL Server a lot, I'm always referring to the Server Explorer. Well done on breaking away from Enterprise Manager. I still cannot get into the habit of using Server Explorer instead of Enterprise Manager.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRobert Edward Caldecott wrote: My father-in-law calls yer man bits "weasels"
Paul Watson wrote: Well done on breaking away from Enterprise Manager. I still cannot get into the habit of using Server Explorer instead of Enterprise Manager. Grrr...I still have to use Enterprise Manager for some things...but mostly I just use the Server Explorer. Things are really supposed to integrate a lot better with Yukon/Whidbey. :jig:
Hawaian shirts and shorts work too in Summer. People assume you're either a complete nut (in which case not a worthy target) or so damn good you don't need to worry about camouflage... -Anna-Jayne Metcalfe on Paintballing
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Chris Maunder wrote: I just don't understand what all the talk about that C-pound stuff is though. Its hash silly - not pound :rolleyes: or is it blunt? I'm sure I have a way of remembering it. :-O
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I like Petzold's Programming Windows for the .NET platform for getting startedin C#. Don Box'es Essential.NET and Richter's Applied NET framework are good for advanced framework learning. Wes
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Brian Delahunty wrote: It's more of a C# book. Bad one, I might add.
Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: Bad one, I might add. I must agree with that. It is the _ONLY_ C# or .NET book I have bought (too much information available on-line to bother with paper) and I regretted it. It must be mentioned though that at the time the book first came out there were not a lot of decent books out there and the technology was quite new. From what I can see, there are plenty now. Rocky Moore <><