C# Bible

Description: I praised this book on a Mircosoft newsgroup... But the more I read this the less I like it. I wanted to share some thoughts here. After comparing this book to a few others on C#, I feel this has one a more comprehensive table of contents. You get a full 9 pages on XML commenting while others give a paragraph or two. There are some cool chapters such as "Building Mobile Applications", "Working with COM", "Working with COM+ Services" and ".NET Remoting". These are topics that my 1600 page VB.NET book (Francesco Balena, Microsoft Press) didn't cover. However, there are a lot of typos, a lot of fluff, explanations are sometimes very poor, and organization is pretty bad. It hasn't been very thoroughly proofread. Take this for example: "Abstract classes are also, by definition, virtual methods..." Still not sure how a class can be a method. There are a lot more like this, but re-reading the paragraph you can generally figure out what they're talking about. By fluff, I mean that they do th .. ISBN: 0764548344 Release Date: 15 June, 2002 List Price: $27.99 Author: Jeff Ferguson, Brian Patterson, Pierre Boutquin Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Last Updated: 06/26/2003

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