By Tony Northrup, Shawn Wildermuth, Bill Ryan
Full Title: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Application Development Foundation Self-Paced Training Kit
The best thing that I can say about this book is that it gives you a feel for the things covered in the 70-536 exam. Other than that, it’s the worst technical book I’ve read.
It is poorly structured. I mean answers to some of the ‘end of lesson’ questions refer to things that haven’t been introduced yet. If it isn’t an aspect of .NET that you’ve encountered in your work, you can’t answer that! And what’s with all the tables listing the features of all these different stream readers and writers - just show me ONE, and then explain how the others are DIFFERENT.
That said, I’d still have given this 3 stars if it weren’t for the errors. The book is littered with them. Examples of gzip decompression that actually compress, answers to questions with typos, hell, even answers to a completely different question in one chapter. I literally have too many to list. This is appalling quality control. If I can spot them, the reviewers should have. It’s just not good enough.
If it weren’t that it’s the ONLY book on the subject out here, I’d recommend ANYTHING else.
