By Vijay Mukhi, Suraj Godhwani, Sonal Mukhi
This book on Visual Studio.Net is a trailblazer, since it is extremely innovative in its approach. It is a screen-based book, which suggests that the entire book is packed with screens, making it very easy and intuitive for a reader to grasp the explanations accompanying them. It makes for an interesting reading, and also does away with the requirement of sitting in front of a computer while reading this book.
Visual Studio.Net facilitates a paradigm shift in the programming world. It has alleviated the task of software development considerably, by synthesizing all applications into a single product. Earlier, every product had its own User Interface, and programmers had very strong loyalties towards specific products. This prevented their smooth migration from existing products to the newer products, which emerged with systematic regularity.
In the Visual Studio.Net environment, building complex applications is a breeze. The switch over from one runtime to another, is also considerably smooth and effortless.
During our perambulation through the various facets of this fascinating product, we have adopted a 'step-by-step' approach to unravel the various features. We have pared down the irrelevant details, and converged only on the most pertinent areas. We have systematically built-up on own our earlier explanations incrementally. For instance, after ensuring that the reader is comfortable with building various types of applications, we have graduated onto the topic of deployment, so that the reader can then, transport his application with ease.
Readers are well advised to peruse the text thoroughly, enter the code as demonstrated, and run the applications, to get a hands-on experience of the product. This is the best available approach to master this product.
For those with an insatiable appetite for technical knowledge, we have exhumed the surface, in order to disinter and explore the workings of the C# language. The latter chapters expound the C# code, generated by the framework for applications built in the earlier chapters.
The three-pronged novel approach of firstly, adding visual appeal by incorporating a plenitude of screens, secondly, of providing simple and complex applications to illustrate various concepts, and finally, of going behind the scenes to explore the c++ code generated by the application, is the linchpin of this book.
We have persevered to simplify the preplanning concepts and have percolated the grain from the chaff. The perspicacity of the text is an important feature implemented by us.
This book contains a plethora of information about Visual Studio.Net and the C# language. We have focussed our attention on Visual Studio.Net, since it is going to play an increasingly important role in the field of computer programming, and its ramifications are going to be far-reaching. So, you would be well-advised to climb onto this bandwagon and scale the heights with us, without much ado.