I would say that explaining the technology in the least amount of pages Is desirable, because no body has time to read 400 pages books these days. If I follow wrox methodology, I need to read Beginning and Professional books on each of the topics. Explain ADO.NET to me in least amount of pages with web pointers to the code and I will pay $100. The question, in my opinion is not the cost, but the quality.
That said, the Wrox methodology, it seems to me, is to write introductory material which is a rehash in every book. This introductory material is covered in such a way that if you already know the content, It is useless, and if you don't know the content, it is useless too because It glosses over the basic stuff. Case studies, screen shots, code in both VB AND C# [which drives me nuts, waste of space and time], endless talk before making any point, making the same point n number of times, self serving pointing to other great books from Wrox press in the middle of explanations ---- BAD IDEAS. Of course this is my personal opinion, and I had the compulsion to Share, sorry :-) -----Original Message----- From: Jim Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 9:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [DOTNET] Can someone recommend an ADO.NET book It really depends on the authors. Wrox appear to do little or no technical reviewing/editing for some of their books, so it's really pot luck. ADO.NET PR is a mix of verbatim copy/pasting from the SDK docs and poorly researched, misspelled, useless tosh. And it took *ten* people to write. Jim > -----Original Message----- > From: Marshall Harrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 19 April 2002 17:36 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [DOTNET] Can someone recommend an ADO.NET book > > > I've gone a little sour on WROX books lately si I think I'll > avoid ADO.Net > Programmer's Reference. > > Is it just me or has WROX quality gone down? > > Marshall You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
