Book Recommendation For Visual Studio .Net & C#

[Jerry Hewett]

So far I've ordered two C#/.Net books off the internet, and they're both *very* sadly lacking when it comes to coverage of Visual Studio .Net.

I don't care about the C# language / API. Piece of cake. Pretty much a straight-forward port of Java. What I'm after is a reference guide to the Visual Studio .Net IDE and environment itself -- one with a complete and detailed index, so that when I want to know what's required to do something like, oh, 'frinstance, talk to a server over SOAP, it'll point me to the stuff I need to know.

I wasted a lot of time trying to figure out what the hell "Microsoft.VSDesigner" was and how I could get it to auto-generate the code I needed. I couldn't find anything about this "tool" in the MSDN or by searching the internet (yeah, yeah, I know, I was probably using the wrong search parameters... but at the time all I knew was "VSDesigner" and "tool" from the comments included in the CS file, and the results from that search were as worthless as the tits on a boar hog).

What I want is a book that not only makes the connection between "VSDesigner" and "Add Web Reference", but explains what's going on and why the average bloke would be interested in using it. If there's anything like this around I'd sure like to know about it. And if there isn't then somebody should write one.

Jerry (Could Be Worse. Could Be Linux) H.

 

[Steve]

If you want to learn more Visual Studio .NET IDE then have a look at the
book "Mastering Visual Studio .NET" at
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mastvsnet/.
This may be what your after. I don't know about you but when it comes to
technical books I really have to see and flip thru the physical book before
I will buy it. Hence I rarely buy technical books sight unseen. Of course
this may not be an option for you.

Steve



So far I've ordered two C#/.Net books off the internet, and they're both
*very* sadly lacking when it comes to coverage of Visual Studio .Net.

I don't care about the C# language / API. Piece of cake. Pretty much a
straight-forward port of Java. What I'm after is a reference guide to the
Visual Studio .Net IDE and environment itself -- one with a complete and
detailed index, so that when I want to know what's required to do something
like, oh, 'frinstance, talk to a server over SOAP, it'll point me to the
stuff I need to know.

I wasted a lot of time trying to figure out what the hell
"Microsoft.VSDesigner" was and how I could get it to auto-generate the code
I needed. I couldn't find anything about this "tool" in the MSDN or by
searching the internet (yeah, yeah, I know, I was probably using the wrong
search parameters... but at the time all I knew was "VSDesigner" and "tool"
from the comments included in the CS file, and the results from that search
were as worthless as the tits on a boar hog).

What I want is a book that not only makes the connection between
"VSDesigner" and "Add Web Reference", but explains what's going on and why
the average bloke would be interested in using it. If there's anything like
this around I'd sure like to know about it. And if there isn't then
somebody should write one.

Jerry (Could Be Worse. Could Be Linux) H.