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Book:   Programming C#
Subject:   Programming C# Review
Date:   2002-02-06 11:20:55
From:   David Dickey
Rating:  StarStarStarStarStar

I have gone through the first 13 chapters of this book and have found many (more than twenty!) errors that are horribly obvious and suggests that this book wasn't properly proofread or revised. Problems from inconsistency to a StackOverflow error* in the FileCopier example in Ch 13. I am lucky that I know C++ and Java well enough to catch these mistakes. Other than that this book does introduce the C# language in an organized maner. I do recommend it for people that are comfortable with their programming skills, and for the rest I'd suggest getting the next edition of this book.


* The StackOverflow error comes from user checking one of the nodes in the left TreeView, which then called tvwSource_AfterCheck(...) as an AfterCheck behavior. tvwSource_AfterCheck then calles SetCheck(...) that then assigns a value to the checkBox again which triggers tvwSource_AfterCheck AGAIN and so on... How did this get missed? It could be due to me using the Beta of VS.NET, who knows.

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