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Reviewed: August, 2011 |
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Reviewer: Bruce
Ekins
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Joe Mayo is a frequent contributor to Code Magazine and has written
extensively on ASP.NET, so it is great to see a beginner’s book from such an
experienced .Net software developer and Microsoft MVP. It is always hard to
decide how much material and what topics to put into a beginner’s book about
such a mature and broad topic as Microsoft Visual Studio application
development. The author does a great job of balancing overview material with
detail, giving the reader new to Visual Studio and .NET a great grounding in
the premier IDE and mainstream application technologies from Microsoft.
All the examples in the book are in C# and VB, so the
reader can choose the language to learn or get a flavor of both. The book
starts out with a great overview of the Visual Studio 2010 IDE, discussing
how to get around the interface and listing the major types of projects VS
2010 can create and manage. Windows, web, MS Office, SharePoint, and
database projects are described briefly. The next three chapters give a
great overview of C# and VB syntax, from basic OO constructs (classes,
interfaces, members, methods and return types) to syntax specific to .Net
(events and delegates). To his credit, the author does not try to do an
overview of Object Oriented theory, but a reference to a good OO book might
help those few readers who have not been introduced to the world of OO yet.
Part II covers building application projects in
general, debugging with the VS IDE, and a quick overview of using the LINQ
built-in system to access relational data with SQL Part III begins the meat
of the book, showing the reader how to build Windows and web applications
using several mainstream .Net technologies: Windows Presentation Foundation,
ASP.NET with Model-View-Controller, Silverlight and Windows Communications
Foundation.
The application development chapters give just the
right amount of detail and include straightforward descriptions. Code
examples are generally a page or two, letting the reader see the major
features of each application technology without having to wade through long
code listings. The ASP.Net MVC example uses the LINQ methods and data
structures covered earlier in the book, resulting in a short program that
has all of the basic components of a web application using .Net.
Part IV of the book describes how to customize the VS
2010 environment. While this is an advanced topic many beginning Visual
Studio readers might not be ready for, it gives a flavor of the
extensibility and power of the IDE. The Appendix introduces the VS 2010 XML
editor, and gives an overview of the role of XAML in creating WPF
application.
Visual Studio 2010 - A Beginner’s Guide is a great
introduction to Microsoft application development with VS 2010. The right
topics are included along with enough details to give the .Net novice a good
overview of the .Net web and Windows application development technologies
and tools. Web application programmers with a background in HTML and
scripting languages might want to get up to speed on OO theory before diving
in, but anyone with some programming background will enjoy and learn a lot
from Joe Mayo’s book.
Bruce Ekins is a part time programmer and application development
technology fan, currently working with Enterprise IT software tools. He has
been on the vendor side most of his career, working with myriad IT hardware
and software technologies from Cobol to RDBMS to .Net. With an MBA and MSCIT,
he believes in getting the most out of IT technology to enable and
streamline business processes and operations. |
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