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Non-techie .NET Book request

My business partner wants to get up to speed on .NET, but he comes from a sales and marketing background, not a technical one. Do you guys have any recommendations for good books on .NET for someone coming from a completely non-technical history? Maybe like “.NET for Dummies” or something to that effect? Please let me know. if not I'll have to write one.
Posted: Sep 30 2003, 01:57 PM by interscape | with 9 comment(s)

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Denny said:

Hmmm...... some kind of "Executive Overview" from the MS web site as a start ??

Aside from that ..... WOW kinda like looking for a book on x86 for non assembers :-)
# September 30, 2003 4:38 PM

Michael Favro said:

Don't know how detailed this book is: http://www.rollthunder.com/imdn.aspx.

Looks like you'll have to write one - in your spare time!
# September 30, 2003 4:40 PM

Robert McLaws said:

Spare time???!?! WTF is that? ;)
# September 30, 2003 4:41 PM

Douglas Reilly said:

Introducing Microsoft .NET is not dated (at least not the current (third) edition. I have given it to a couple of sort of technical (but not at all developer or network people) managers and they fount it to be a good intro.
# September 30, 2003 4:59 PM

Philip Scott said:

We've had a couple of brave souls dig through the Introducing Microsoft .NET. The way it is structured is that David shows common scenarios, and shows how .NET attempts to solve them. Non techies could stop there, because he goes on to show some simple code examples demonstrating .NET solving the problem.

Pretty good book, and probably would only take a sales/marketing guy a couple of hours to go through.
# September 30, 2003 5:02 PM

Eric said:

From what I remember, my manager (semi technical) really liked "Introducing MS .NET" from MS Press.

When I was in Barnes and Noble last, I remember seeing a book the was something like ".NET for Managers". I remember reading the back, and it stated that it was specifically for non-technical people.

Eric
# September 30, 2003 6:36 PM

Randy H. said:

The Chappell book is the one you want.
# September 30, 2003 8:44 PM

Jesse Ezell said:

I agree, Introducing .NET is a really good start.
# September 30, 2003 10:15 PM

Weston Binford said:

I have to agree that Chappell's book is what you should get.
# October 1, 2003 1:04 AM