Microsoft Visual C#.Net 2003 Kick Start

By Steven Holzner

Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003 Kick Startis a rapid-progression tutorial that presents the C# language to working programmers who are already familiar with another programming language or tool. This... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672325470
• ISBN13: 9780672325472
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Sams
• Length: 604 Pages
• Weight: 2.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Great place to start

This book, Microsoft Visual C#.NET 2003 kick start, has really helped an experienced MsAccess VBA programmer jump start his adventure into the C# .Net development environment. Using this book along with, Mastering C# Database Programming, by Jason Price, will help you well on the road to creating useful C# applications.

C#, C# Programming

This book, Microsoft Visual C#.NET 2003 kick start, has really helped an experienced MsAccess VBA programmer jump start his adventure into the C# development environment. Using this book along with, Mastering C# Database Programming, by Jason Price, will help you well on to the road of creating useful C# applications.

Great!

As an experienced C++ programmer, I wanted to try C# out of curiosity. Obviously, I didn't want to read long-winded explanations of the most basic programming constructs -- I just wanted syntax and effective ways to use it. This book fulfills this purpose well. Within a few days, I was able to start writing real, useful C# applications. And, since I'm a game developer, I was able to find Managed DirectX tutorials and I've already written the fundamentals of a C# game engine! So, if you know how to code, this book will show you how to do it in C#. Thanks, Steven Holzner!

No wasted time with this one

For any programmer coming over from another language, I really think this book offers the most bang for the buck (and for your time). I'm a VB6 programmer who wasted a lot of time and money on other books that either offer too much hand-holding (next to no code, everything through forms designer) and wasted time on extensive examples building software I'll never use or focused only on console C# applications with no explanation of topics like ADO.NET, winforms, etc. I need to use C# at work and like many programmers, I'm busy and have little time to waste. Yet, I also needed a comprehensive book because the real world of business programming requires the use of data-access technologies (ADO.NET), security, network technologies, etc. This book succeeds on all counts. The coverage is surprisingly comprehensive and details are well fleshed out. Even using ADO.NET in code is covered while many other books only cover using it through form controls in Visual Studio (anyone who writes database-connected applications knows that you really need a high level of control of shaping the data before you can present it). Nothing is dwelled upon for long so be warned that the book does move fast and info is densely packed into each page.

Excellent for people who know some programming

This is a very solid book. It assumes you know the basics of programming like loops, modules and the likes... If you are familiar with any regular programming language (like C, C++, Java, PERL, python, ruby, even shell scripting) then this books is probably your best bet to learn C# quickly. There is no whole chapters made to get you to write a "for" loop here, you must have programming concepts to really benefit from this book. As a programmer, I really enjoyed it and was able to get to work quickly on C# programs. If you are totaly new to programming, get another book to get your feet wet before jumping on this one.