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Reviewer: alleyrat001 from Watervliet, NY United States
March 6, 2004

"alleyrat" is obviously talking about a different book for C++ not c#. You must clear up with him which text he is referring to but it is obvious that none of the page references even remotely match.

This erroneous low score is dragging down the overall review rating.

I liked the book so much that I took it upon myself to help right this wrong.

PERFECT FOR BEGINNERS!

I bought about a dozen C# books from a store that does close-outs. For a few dollars I stocked a full C# reference library with all the major titles. I may not be an expert but if there is a C# text I have read at least parts of it.

Even though it is not a reference text and they do not go into some fancier stuff in too much detail, the way the authors explain and properly use the power of Visual Studio is so good that I wind up using this book more than any other.

I may dig more for speciific examples in other ref. books or on the net(who doesn't) but if I want to get the solid explanation I start here.

You cannot write productively .net code without VS!

when you see a book that says in the the Intro that you can whip out your ole' Notepad and go just keep going... Those are the geeks that will keep you going in circles with cryptic explanations of a term that include three or more new never previously defined terms.

Ole' Notepad is like a flight instructor coming to class and saying: "You can fly from Houston to Seattle and you can also walk so class, put on your walking shoes and bon voyage!" "But sir, what about flying?" "Well we'll get into that when you walk back from Seattle."

So if you do not want to walk( or crawl) with .net you have to start with the Visual Studio IDE right off the bat and this book does just that best.

Even though I had a whole shelf of other books already I had to pay full price for this one and it was worth every penny.

Cudos!

For some reason Amazon seems to think that two different titles: Visual C++ .Net: Step by Step: Version 2003 and Visual C# .Net: Step by Step are two different editions of the same book.

Some of the reviews you will read for this book refer to the other "edition". I really like the C# book, but I've never even seen the C++ edition.

If you are developing a new .NET application with forms, I can't think of any reason to use Visual-C++. If you have a lot of legacy C++ code that you'd like to port to .NET, then you might want to use Managed C++.

The book I bought is Visual C# .Net Step by Step Version 2003 by John Sharp and Jon Jagger. It seems like a really good introduction to programming Windows Forms with Visual C# in Visual Studio 2003.

If you're looking for a book to teach you how to program C# using Visual Studio, this is the book for you. The authors put as much focus on how to use the development environment as they put into the language. Previous exposure to programming and object-oriented concepts are helpful, but not required. I strongly recommend the book to those who are new to C# and/or Microsoft's Visual Studio environment. *Note that this is for version 2003, not the 2002 edition.