.NET Compact Framework Programming with Visual Basic .NET (Microsoft .NET Development Series) @ richardeward.com

.NET Compact Framework Programming with Visual Basic .NET (Microsoft .NET Development Series)
by Paul Yao, David Durant
from Addison-Wesley Professional

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

• Initially seemed OK, but badly written
  This book started well, with a good high-level overview of the CF. However, the authors then put the reader in deep water, they don't explain examples hardly at all, use very technical language without explanation and to top it all most examples didn't work, even when downloaded from the author's site. When used as a reference, there are not clear examples of how to do even simple things, instead there are very long and complex examples which confuse and overwhelm. Unless you want to spend hours trying to... more info

• Very Useful Book
  The right book, at the right time!
  I wish I had bought this book 1 week earlier, it would have saved a lot of time and frustration.

• Looks good at first but then .....
  At first glance I thought the book was well written. However after digging deeper I found that each time I wanted a particular question asked I had to result to other books. Throughout the book the examples are fragmented and are not tied together very well.
  When I downloaded the examples from the author's web site I found that every single example project I tested to be incomplete with missing files or code.
  There are several syntax errors in the VB code and it is obvious that they were just... more info

• Excellent end-to-end introduction to portable .NET
  I'm really impressed. I'm not usually much on the big tome books. This one is almost 1400 pages, which weighs in at 5 pounds on my bathroom scale. That being said, the text is really tight, the illustrations are cropped, not overwhelming in number, and are used effectively. And the book on the whole does not pander to the reader. The topics are also covered at a reasonable depth.
  The book is essentially three books, one on the compact framework, one on WinForms and one on database access, all in one... more info

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