Non-techie .NET Book request

Tuesday, September 30, 2003

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.

7 Comments

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 :-)

Denny - Tuesday, September 30, 2003 8:38:00 PM
Spare time???!?! WTF is that? ;)

Robert McLaws - Tuesday, September 30, 2003 8:41:00 PM
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.

Douglas Reilly - Tuesday, September 30, 2003 8:59:00 PM
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.

Philip Scott - Tuesday, September 30, 2003 9:02:00 PM
The Chappell book is the one you want.

Randy H. - Wednesday, October 1, 2003 12:44:00 AM
I agree, Introducing .NET is a really good start.

Jesse Ezell - Wednesday, October 1, 2003 2:15:00 AM
I have to agree that Chappell's book is what you should get.

Weston Binford - Wednesday, October 1, 2003 5:04:00 AM

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