Best Microsoft .NET
Your hands-on guide to Microsoft Visual C# fundamentals with Visual Studio 2015 Expand your expertise--and teach yourself the fundamentals of programming with the latest version of Visual C# with Visual Studio 2015. John Sharp is a principal technologist at Content Master, part of CM Group Ltd., a technical authoring and consulting company based in Gloucester, in the UK.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Awesome examples at the end of each chapter allowing you to put the concepts of the chapter into practice."
"Fantastic book for a .NET programming class."
"I only have 6G of RAM on a Toshiba laptop. The ONLY difficulty I had was with Chapter 27 where the NuGet package manager had difficulties with the fact that I was running out of sample code zip-expanded too far down a directory tree. So I copied the sample code directory to come off the C:\ drive."
"Look no further, if you want to learn C# this is your book."
"Perfect reference book but not for a newbie."
"great book and a lot of information that will help you scale your skills to higher and more proficient."
"very well written with ample examples for those wanting to learn c#."
"Make me feel happy with the reference to "Sorting & Searching by Knuth". I apologize for my English."
This new 7th edition of Pro C# 6.0 and the .NET 4.6 Platform has been completely revised and rewritten to reflect the latest changes to the C# language specification and new advances in the .NET Framework. The mission of this book is to provide you with a comprehensive foundation in the C# programming language and the core aspects of the .NET platform plus overviews of technologies built on top of C# and .NET (ADO.NET and Entity Framework, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), ASP.NET (WebForms, MVC, WebAPI).). The mission of this book is to provide you with a comprehensive foundation in the C# programming language and the core aspects of the .NET platform plus overviews of technologies built on top of C# and .NET (ADO.NET and Entity Framework, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), ASP.NET (WebForms, MVC, WebAPI).).
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Find Best Price at Amazon"It is very valuable, it covers everything you would want to know, and it covers I think all areas I was working on as a Software Developer."
"This book is an in depth reference to the .NET environment."
"Author really knows his stuff, even if this book becomes outdated I would recommend it for learning syntax/basics of C# and the compiler."
"Great book."
"Good book, am learning to be a full stack developer."
"Anyways, I think this was money well spent -- not only does it include a lot of wonderful and well-written information, it's literally worth its weight in what you pay for it (it's a 5.5 pound book)."
"Well organized, good balance between explanations and examples."
"Considering the fairly high price of this Kindle book I would have assumed it was reviewed before it was released."
Create a fun arcade game in the first chapter, and build games and other projects throughout the book Learn how to use XAML to design attractive and interactive pages and windows Build modern Windows Store apps using the latest Microsoft technology Learn WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) using the downloadable WPF Learner's Guide Using the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern to create robust architecture Build a bonus Windows Phone project and run it in the Visual Studio Windows Phone emulator.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Very Disappointed because the first example they give you to code is very long and has a lot of pieces to set up."
"I absolutely recommend this book to anyone who is serious about wanting to learn this language and has the time and motivation to accomplish their goal. Yes, Microsoft has released the 2013 version of Visual Studio, and the book references the 2012 version, but the differences are minor."
"Great, too bad they haven't kept it updated."
"I bought this Kindle version so that I can read the book anywhere, plus its nice to have on my surface pro 3 as a reference for when I am coding."
"Head First books are the way everyone should get started on a subject."
"Bought this book to supplement my first Programming class at school. I disliked the dry textbook we're working with now so I wanted something that offered different ways to learn programming. If you don't have great eyes, I'd HIGHLY recommend avoiding the Kindle version. I enjoy it much more than the dry Visual C# how to program book we're required to use in class."
"Should be noted that this book is totally useless for Mac users."
"It seems like a great book but just expecting everyone to have Windows 8 when just the opposite is true is ridiculously alienating, and makes the book a chore to navigate."
Best Microsoft VBA
If you're a beginning to intermediate VBA programmer looking to get up to speed on creating customized solutions with Excel applications, Excel VBA Programming For Dummies, 4 th Edition makes it easier. Learn to:
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I now understand absolute vs. relative references! Understand this is an INTRO book."
"Well written but you need something a little simpler if you're a noob."
"Excellent!"
"This book explains VBA/Macros very simply, and is a definitely worth having as a reference!"
"This book strikes the perfect balance between simplicity and usefulness."
"Excellent for those new to VBA!"
"Starting around Chap 7, Mr. Walkenbach starts giving a lot of examples of code that is setting dimensions; static counters, offsets; cells vs ranges, etc, but he doesn't complete those examples with the actually code that would run some macro after the previously defined dimensions. I recommend this book as a good starting place for someone like me who has some experience using the Macro Record tool in Excel."
Best Microsoft SQL Server
Ace your preparation for Microsoft Certification Exam 70-461 with this 2-in-1 Training Kit from Microsoft Press. He has also developed three courses for SolidQ: Data Modeling Essentials, Data Quality and Master Data Management, and Data Mining.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I'll blame it on the editors (or lack thereof) - just make sure you print out the errata page from the O'Reilly site as a reference. The questions bear little resemblance to the real thing in either format or difficulty. Bottom line, I was ready to deduct two stars for the worthless exam (which another reviewer did) but decided to view it as a flawed bonus, like those coupons that print on your grocery receipt for items you just bought. Buy this training kit for the well-written, well organized, occasionally-flawed text and use it as a guide as you also include other sources from other books or the web, especially the MSDN site."
"I passed the exam on the first attempt, but I wouldn't suggest using this book as your sole preparation; in fact I think if you use only this book it will take you 3x longer to be prepared. I would suggest using this book for detailed information about a topic when you need to understand something more deeply, and rely on other sources (practice exams, training, etc) for your exam prep."
"Step by step; Essential terminology: clarified discussion on foundation protocol for T-SQL This has been very useful, along with MS certification training course at Udemy.com CD was included."
"It is not a beginners book, if you already good at a subject you can easily just use this to review it, but if you find something unfamiliar then you need to find other resources to study that specific subject, generally the book gives you a path to study for the exam and it also is good to review and improve your skills."
"However, it is in the SECOND book (for the 70-462 exam) that you have the instructions for installing and configuring SQL 2012, which seems backwards to me."
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If you’ve never read Effective C++ and you think you know everything about C++, think again.”. — Steve Schirripa, Software Engineer, Google. “C++ and the C++ community have grown up in the last fifteen years, and the third edition of Effective C++ reflects this. The clear and precise style of the book is evidence of Scott’s deep insight and distinctive ability to impart knowledge.”. — Gerhard Kreuzer, Research and Development Engineer, Siemens AG The first two editions of Effective C++ were embraced by hundreds of thousands of programmers worldwide. He is consulting editor for Addison Wesley's Effective Software Development Series and is a founding member of the Advisory Board for The C++ Source (http://www.artima.com/cppsource).
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I used this book as my primary source to transition from programming at College in C (where most programs are several thousand lines at most) to programming professionally in C++ (where you often have to manage anywhere from tens of thousands to millions of lines of code, most of which were not written by you)."
"Give it 4 stars instead of 5 because C++11 will probably make some of the recommendations as strongly applicable as before (actually, I think some of the cases where C++11 works against the advice from Meyers is for the worse, not for the better)."
"However, any developer should know the theory behind those conventions and idioms if she is going to do some serious software development. The book discussed 50 more ways in different items for effective C++ programming."
"I have been programming in C++ for a while so some of the topics Scott Mayers discussed were already familiar but I still picked up a lot from this book. Scott's goal is not to teach the fundamentals but to advice readers on how to use the language effectively - generating good, efficient, re-usable, portable code."
"If you're interested in reading about more highly advanced topics, then check out the next book in the series: More Effective C++: 35 New Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs."
"A good book that provides explanations and thought processes for improving your coding technique."