Ronald Lyons Review of “C# Bible” from “Wiley Technology Publishing”
For the NOPC VBLG
Review Date: 02-05-03

My rating for this book on a scale from 1(very bad) to 5(outstanding) is a 4.75(excellent).

I am a fair programmer, but I have very limited C experience, so I found the first part on C# Language Fundamentals immensely valuable.

One problem however, is that as of this date, 2/5/3, I could not find a link for the “C# Bible” on the companion web site, so there were no downloadable code examples.

The price, $39.99, for such a book is very competitive, since I would expect other such books to be in the $60 to $70 range.

The authors were a good blend of technical writers and training document writers, and they produced a book that I found easy to understand as a treatment of a complex subject. The editor, Michael L. Thomas, is a person well known in the New Orleans area as the Microsoft .Net Evangelist, and having attended many of his lectures, I believe his overview of the content was probably very helpful in the final product.

The book presented coverage of both the C# language as well as the whole .NET environment, which for me was an excellent method of presentation.

The following subjects were addressed in varying degrees of detail, but all were sufficient to provide an understanding of what they were:

C# syntax( both introductory and advanced)
Object Oriented Programming with C#
Application development in the VS.NET IDE
Winforms and Webforms
ADO.net
ASP.net
Application deployment
Wireless applications
.NET Framework
Interop and Remoting
Security
XML Primer