Books ???

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Hi guys,

I'm starting a new big project. I need some book's titles where is a good
approach to these arguments:

- controls: custom controls (user controls)
- binding source;
- codedom

or doc, or ebooks etc

thanks, fabbrit
 
Of all the .NET books I've purchased so far, I've found only two of
them to be really helpful (and they are not specific to .NET CF but the
..NET framework or C# 2.0 in general). The other books tend to repeat
content that can easily be found via Google.

My favorite .NET book so far is called "Framework Design Guidelines:
Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for resuable .NET libraries" by
Kryzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams.

Second favorite is "Visual C# 2005: The Base Class Library" by
Francesco Balena

I also subscribe to many of the .NET CF msdn blogs as well as the
OpenNETCF developer blogs. For example, Daniel Moth's blog, Peter
Foot's blog, Steven Pratschner's blog, and the Windows Mobile Team
blog. You should be able to find all of these by Googling for them.

Anyone else have any suggested readings? I'm also interested to hear of
good .NET CF 2.0/.NET 2.0 books/blogs.
 
No new books here - I'm looking too. I started out with Cris Tacke's
EMbedded Visual Basic then The Definitie Guide to the .NET Framework by Dan
Fergus and Roof.
Since I'm writing my next app in VS2005 CF2.0 I'd love to have an updated
reference covering the new smart device environment in VS2005. Is there
nothing published out there now??!!

TIA
Harry
 
As an author of a previous mobile/embedded techniocal book I can probably
shed light on this. It's just not worth it from an author perspective to
write a book in this space. A book is a _large_ amount of effort, and the
rewards are very small (I made about $3500 total off my eVB book, which took
a few months to write).

That's why, IMHO, you rarely see multiple books from the same author. The
rare exceptions are those authors who also do things like training, so the
books help show their expertise and relevence - it's not just a book, but a
marketing tool.

I was approached about a new book some time ago and declined the offer to do
one. I wouln't be surprised if other authors have done the same, and it
would go a long way to explaining why you don't see much out there on
bookshelves today. Our market is too small and publishers pay too little.
Until one of those change, or we come up with a different "format" for
content delivery, I don't expect the situation to change.

-Chris
 
Hi guys,

thanks for yours suggest. I'll get my choice.

If I can say something to the authors, my expectation in a book is to don't
find ever a copy of the VS help and a continuity book by book avoiding each
time to have half book where is explained what are variables or for next
cycles.
A programmer should be growing up book by book testing new experience always
more complex.

bye fabbrit
 
Our market is too small and publishers pay too little. Until one of
those change, or we come up with a different "format" for content
delivery, I don't expect the situation to change.
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Would a service such as http://www.lulu.com/ be of interest then? It
certainly seems to be an easy way to allow content to be published,
with full control over price.

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tiziano said:
Hi guys,

I'm starting a new big project. I need some book's titles where is a good
approach to these arguments:

- controls: custom controls (user controls)
- binding source;
- codedom
Click to expand...
I've found Wrigley's .Net Compact Framework to be both an
excellent reference as well as a source of coding
examples (comes with a CD-full). Its based on v1 and VS2003
but is nevertheless value for money.

You can find it on Amazon at http://tinyurl.com/r36s9

Will Chapman
 
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