First of all, I had to wrap up reading this book so that I could spend some time checking out my new HTML5 books. Below is my review of Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, by Andrew Troelsen.
First, I must warn you that you will need a strong arm if you intend to lug this book around. The book has over 1700 pages. The good news is that the book is available as an eBook too. The original reason I purchased this book was because of the detailed content on ADO.Net. There are so many books out there that try to give an overview of ADO and never really give it very good coverage.
So off I went to read the ADO.Net chapters Part I – Part III. What was amazing was how the author was able to explain why and when you would use certain pieces of the framework. Most books simply give you a couple pages on how to use a very specific piece of the framework. After devouring the ADO.Net portion of this book, I was so impressed with the authors ability to explain the logic of why and when to use certain pieces, not just the how, that I HAD TO READ THE BOOK FROM COVER TO COVER.
The book is arranged in 7 major parts, beginning with C# fundamentals, moving through Core and Advance programming constructs, and ending with discussions surrounding Web Apps, Windows Forms, and Mono. The content never talks down to you and is consumable by a programmer with some experience to a more experienced programmer that would like to fill in gaps in their C# knowledge.
I would highly recommend this to anyone except possibly the master programmer (you know who I am referring to). The book can be found at most book stores or purchased directly through APress.
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