Programming C#, 2nd Edition Review

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Book:		Programming C#
Subject:		Programming C#, 2nd Edition Review
Date:		2002-09-15 13:58:12
From:		Jens Schaefers

Rating: The first part of the book is excellent, but beginning with the chapter about Windows Forms it became a nearly total disappointment. In the book's description on oreilly.de it's never mentioned that I have to buy at least MS Visual C# Standard for the book getting me started on Windows and Web Forms etc. This is crap, because I thought O'Reilly books were for people who want to know about the things going on behind pretty GUI-Builders. I mean, the author states that without Visual Studio / C# it's more hard to develope real applications. But did I learn Swing by clicking together some pretty GUIs with JBuilder? And I'm a student. I spent 44 Euros (about 44$) on the book. Shall I spent another 140 Euros on Visual C# to have a use for the last third of the book? Another thing is, I really would have liked to know how advanced Windows Forms are working and how to use them. So I really can recommend this book only if you want to learn C# as a first programming language and / or if you own a Visual C# / Studio. It's the first disappointing O'Reilly book I bought. Jens