Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner’s Guide (A Beginners Guide)

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1. K. Halvorson says:

   June 19, 2010 at 11:11 pm

   Review by K. Halvorson for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner’s Guide (A Beginners Guide)
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   One may wonder how anyone could write a decent introductory book to Visual Studio and related programming, do it just over 400 pages with decent sized type and screenshots, and still cover a little bit of everything from Asp.Net to MVC to WPF. This book successfully manages that task quite well.

   The first four chapters get you up to speed on finding your way around visual studio enough to get a project started. It also includes brief tutorial on programming in both Visual Basic and C#. If you have programmed in other languages, or you are just starting programming, this will give you just enough knowledge to get started inside Visual Studio.. It covers program structure, some language syntax, and how to best use the Visual Studio make programming tasks easier.

   The next three chapters cover creating projects, debugging, and accessing data. While whole books can be written on these subjects, Joe manages to hit the useful high points. Since much time can be spend debugging, understanding the debugging tools is essential for developers new to Visual Studio. Many hours of debugging can be saved by using the built in tools. He explains breakpoints and the useful debugging windows, and give a great walkthrough of using these concepts to track down a bug in a program with bugs.

   The next part covers web and windows applications using ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight, WPF, and web services.. Again, whole books are written on these subjects. This book works through just enough information to understand how to use each topic, and a sample program for each to illustrate the concept. I, knowing very little about MVC, built the example in the chapter, and found how easy it was to learn.

   Finally, enhancing and extending Visual Studio 2010 is covered. Templates, snippets and macro are covered as well as project add-ins.

   Overall, I found the book well written, organized, and easy to use. Topics are introduced in a logical order. It is best to read the first seven chapters, and then after that, the chapters you are interested in. If you are interested in web, you can skip the WPF chapter and vice versa. This book is a must have for the entry level developer with little or no experience with Visual Studio. If you are a career developer with little or no Visual Studio experience, this book is a great introduction.
   
2. Steven Wake says:

   June 19, 2010 at 11:22 pm

   Review by Steven Wake for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner’s Guide (A Beginners Guide)
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   This book is a great intro book for anyone that is looking to get started in programming C# or VB.NET and use the latest version of Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2010 IDE. The author provides a great intro for anyone that has done some coding or scripting for computers in the past as well as providing help for more seasoned programmers on newer applications that they may not have any experience with. For the people that are new to any .NET programming there are quite a few chapters devoted to teaching the basics of both the C# and VB.NET language with bunches of code samples. The book is organized in a very easy to follow and logical structure that will walk you through everything you will need to get your first .NET programs up and running smoothly. For the more advanced programmers there are also chapters dedicated to some of the newer Visual Studio project types like WPF, WCF, MVC and even Silverlight. There are also chapters at the end for extending Visual Studio itself if you find that there are functions that you want to modify or automate in the IDE. The book is very clearly written and doesn’t talk down to you either, just provides you the samples that you need to get the job done.
3. Eric says:

   June 19, 2010 at 11:43 pm

   Review by Eric for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner’s Guide (A Beginners Guide)
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   I am a beginning programmer at least in C#, this book has been helpful in a lot of ways but I have to mention that the author must have been in a hurry to get this book out as a lot of his C# code samples are missing required brackets “{” and some lines of code, for instance take page 76 under C# (MessagePrinter.cs)in the middle of the page you will notice 3 opening brackets and 4 closing brackets, which means the reader has to figure out what the author forgot to type in, in this case it was the class statement that was missing, if you are looking to learn C# i would be carefull with this book at is seem’s to be missing a few statements in the examples, visual basic readers may not have had this problem in their code samples….

   Thanks
   
   Eric.
4. Stanley J. Packer says:

   June 20, 2010 at 12:13 am

   Review by Stanley J. Packer for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner’s Guide (A Beginners Guide)
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   Joe Mayo is a very good author. He knows his subject. I like this book very much. It is well written and contains clear to the point examples.

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