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Book Title: The .NET Languages: A Quick Translation Guide
Author: Brian Bischof
ISBN: 1893115488
Price: $29.95
Publisher: Apress
Publication Date: 12/30/2001
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For Visual Basic and C# programmers facing Microsoft's new platform, The .NET Languages: A Quick Translation Guide offers an extremely useful comparison of three languages: Visual Basic 6, Visual Basic .NET, and C#.
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For Visual Basic and C# programmers facing Microsoft's new platform, The .NET Languages: A Quick Translation Guide offers an extremely useful comparison of three languages: Visual Basic 6, Visual Basic .NET, and C#. With nearly indispensable code snippets that show central language features at work, this book offers an excellent resource for getting up to speed with .NET in record time.
The just-the-facts approach in this text is its best feature. By keeping the commentary to a minimum, the book quickly introduces you to what you need to know. The author shows how specific language features are implemented in three different languages, beginning with basic constructs like data types and flow control statements. Technically, both Visual Basic .NET and the new C# are equal partners in Visual Studio .NET. This book can save two types of users significant time: those moving from VB 6 to VB .NET and those thinking about upgrading their VB skills to C# (an option, now that the languages are so close).
The book does a good job comparing the use of common class design constructs for methods and properties and how to use inheritance and interfaces. This material will likely justify the cover price of the book for many readers, as it is tricky to get right, and each of the new .NET languages uses slightly different keywords and conventions when it comes to class design.
Later chapters cover essential .NET APIs with code snippets that will also help you save time. In particular, we liked how the author illustrates how to get started with ADO.NET and databases. Also useful here is a section on COM interoperability with .NET (as this is likely to be a common programming chore).
By keeping explanations short and sweet and letting short code excerpts do most of the talking (along with short, complete programs), the author has devised a very useful text, one that can demystify what's new and different about .NET for any VB or C# programmer. Timely, concise, and deftly organized, this title is a perfect choice for those who like to learn new programming languages by example. Few programming titles can claim to be as immediately useful as this one. --Richard Dragan
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