The .Net Languages: A Quick Translation Guide

by Brian Bischof

Book Overview

"The .NET Languages: A Quick Translation Guide" answers two questions posed by the introduction of the .NET Framework: "How do I quickly upgrade my skills to this new language?" and "How do I understand the code that another developer has written?" Author Brian Bischof offers a complete translation guide for converting programs among the three primary Microsoft languages: Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Basic .NET, and C#. Bischof makes it easy for the thousands...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1893115488
• ISBN13: 9781893115484
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

It Accomplishes Its Goal

I use this book a LOT. The reason I love it is because it does exactly what it was meant to do: take a starting point that I can relate to, Visual Basic 6, and cross-reference my previous knowledge to VB.NET and C#. I have not found any other book that cross-references all three languages the way this one does. For instance, if I know what command I would use in VB 6, but I'm new to C# then it's a 15 minute search to find something equivalent in MSDN. But if I pull out my trusty Translation Guide there it is in a few seconds! From there if I need more in-depth detail I can go straight to the correct article in MSDN, however in most cases it tells me everything I need to know because I already understand the concepts, I just need to know how to do the same type of task in another language. This book is absolutely invaluable to me as a reformed VB6 programmer!

Well organized, concise, indispensable

As an author who provides all our code examples in both C# and VB.NET, this book is indispensable. Whenever I have a question about how to express some code in one language or the other, it provides the concise information I need. I highly recommend it.

Regarding .NET Final Release

As the author, I wanted to let you know that this book was written with .NET Release Candidate 1. Now that .NET Final has been released, I recompiled all the code and it is 100% compatible. As a result, this is the only edition being printed for VS.NET. You can download Chapter 2 from my website. Thanks to everyone for the positive emails.

Excellent to ramp up quickly

At first I was not too sure about the book, thinking it might be another quick book that was just banged out on .NET. I was wrong! This book doesn't waste time. It gets right to the point in getting you up to speed with the main .NET languages (VB.NET and C#). The wonderful thing about it is that it shows you the VB (6 and .NET) and C# syntax side-by-side, so that in one pass, you can learn both languages. I had already been programming with VB.NET for almost a year before I read this book, and I had even done some C# work. Thanks to this book, now I know C# as well as VB.NET, and can easily work both languages. They also have a few "bonus" chapters that show you how to quickly start using things like ADO.NET, and GDI+,-- painting and printing. I was surprised to see something there, since it doesn't directly deal with the language. The bonus chapters aren't a full reference, but they are enough to quickly get you up and running! Bottom line: You want to upgrade to .NET? Read this book.