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| Book: | Programming .NET 3.5 | |
| Subject: | Outdated content | |
| Date: | 2008-10-23 09:07:15 | |
| From: | Anonymous Reader | |
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I saw the reviews on this book and looked promising. I ordered the book from an Internet retailler and got it a week ago. I started reading and trying out the examples. To my surprise, the examples/materials are very much outdated. I cannot find any Errata's for the book that provides suggestions and fixes. For example, the code for ASP.NET MVC, which actually tap my fancy and decision for buying the book, was based on an older preview and I get a lot of errors trying the examples even with the beta version of ASP.NET MVC. Check out the examples from pages 235-245 particularly the sections on Controllers and Views. The issue here is that these authors are just writing books as soon as some new technology is still is in the oven and there is no follow-up when the technology is baked. I don't know how this problem can be solved but I hope that the authors and publisher provides on-going erratas so that the content is current. Otherwise, all I have is another useless book because I have to digged through other materials on the internet to just make up the difference. The reason why I buy these technical books is because I expect them to be more accurate and a single point of reference for me to get started with the technology. |
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