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.NET 2.0 Book recommendation

I've been meaning to do that for a while. A few months ago, I had the pleasure to review the ASP.NET 2.0 part of Patrick Smacchia's excellent Practical .Net2 and C#2. The book is really excellent and is the most complete I know on .NET 2.0. It covers with unparallelled accuracy everything about .NET 2.0. This book is an almost 900 page masterpiece and reference book that I highly recommend.

Practical .Net2 and C#2
Posted: Apr 30 2006, 07:15 PM by Bertrand Le Roy | with 7 comment(s)

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Saudhall said:

Looks good, and i hope it describe every thing in detail that too from scratch.

Thanks,
Saurabh
# April 30, 2006 11:57 PM

Plip said:

Mike Taulty posted a review here too where he raved about the book: -

http://mtaulty.com/blog/archive/2006/04/15/9307.aspx
# May 1, 2006 10:49 AM

Reinaldo Torrales said:

I use Professional ASP.NET 2.0 from WROX and even that some areas could use some re-work, in general the book is fairly decent. I think the sections that explains Callbacks and SqlBulkCopy could use rework. I write a lot of code that deals with huge amounts of data transfers and even that I use SQL DTS / SSIS this is not always an option. As for the Callbacks, I think Atlas is the best way to go.
# May 2, 2006 3:12 PM

lordabdul said:

I've already got CLR via C# (for .NET 2.0)... Is it worth it to get Practical .NET too?
Btw, now wonder that book is great... Patrick Smacchia is a french guy who studied at the ENSEEIHT school of computer engineering which incidentally is where I studied :) Yeeeaaaah!
# May 4, 2006 1:50 AM

Simone said:

Bertrand, did you actually read it? The language he uses is almost incomprehensible. Thumbs down to the editor, I would never publish such a book.I agree on the value of the contents, but reading it is a pain.
# August 1, 2006 11:58 PM

Bertrand Le Roy said:

Simone: I've read the French edition. The English one seems to be self-translated and I've heard from a few folks other than yourself that it could take some serious editing.

# August 2, 2006 12:56 PM

Rick Strahl said:

Bertrand, I agree. This is an excellent book even with the horrible editing in the English version . I've used this book as a reference continuously for the last 3 months and it's become indispensable. It covers an incredible amount of content for a single book. I don't know if I would say it's incomprehensible Simone . It's definitely not smooth English but getting the author's meaning hasn't been a problem in my case. Maybe it's my European background ...
# August 24, 2006 2:58 AM
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