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| Jeff Huntington 2003-03-31, 3:23 pm |
| I agree! The Web Application Web Based Training kit is
terrible about bad examples. For example, don't try any
of the user control examples! They don't work.
>-----Original Message-----
>Can anyone tell me why Microsoft continually show bad
examples when
>developers are trying to study for exams. I make a point
of the good
>old username 'sa' and blank password yet the continually
show examples
>and have downloads with such code. I also think they show
too many
>examples with sql strings and dont use stored procedures.
>
>
>Also why do we continually see poor exam books - surely
Microsoft
>Press should be able to produce a better standard of book
than at
>present. The amount of errors and code samples that dont
work is
>pretty high as well as typos on diagrams and screen shots.
>
>Cheers
>Greg
>.
>
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| Mehran Nikoo 2003-04-02, 9:23 am |
| I agree too! Author teaches you how to write DHTML code, and how to use
mailto: to send email from an HTML page!
Windows Apps books is much better. I really liked XML Web Services though.
Much more comprehensive in ADO.NET and XML. Can be useful even for Web and
Windows exams.
--
Mehran Nikoo
MCSD, MCSD for .NET
"Jeff Huntington" <jhuntington@saionline.com> wrote in message
news:062901c2f7c4$a8fba530$a00
1280a@phx.gbl...
> I agree! The Web Application Web Based Training kit is
> terrible about bad examples. For example, don't try any
> of the user control examples! They don't work.
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Can anyone tell me why Microsoft continually show bad
> examples when
> >developers are trying to study for exams. I make a point
> of the good
> >old username 'sa' and blank password yet the continually
> show examples
> >and have downloads with such code. I also think they show
> too many
> >examples with sql strings and dont use stored procedures.
> >
> >
> >Also why do we continually see poor exam books - surely
> Microsoft
> >Press should be able to produce a better standard of book
> than at
> >present. The amount of errors and code samples that dont
> work is
> >pretty high as well as typos on diagrams and screen shots.
> >
> >Cheers
> >Greg
> >.
> >
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| Paulo Reichert 2003-04-03, 7:23 am |
| The real problem here is:
Most of the books I've read, including some books specific on enterprise
development, uses bad practices and sometimes cumbersome techniques to
develop their samples.
I saw even books about .NET where the author was using COM interop to load
the MSXML objects to parse his XML.
With the excuse that they're trying to keep the code simple and didatic,
they do some things that are really ugly.
The books I've read about .NET doesn't include any one from MS Press, but a
lot from Wrox, O'Reilly and others.
--
Cheers,
Paulo
MCAD, MCSD .NET
"Mehran Nikoo" <mohmehran@msn.com> wrote in message
news:e$ggscS#CHA.1976@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> I agree too! Author teaches you how to write DHTML code, and how to use
> mailto: to send email from an HTML page!
>
> Windows Apps books is much better. I really liked XML Web Services though.
> Much more comprehensive in ADO.NET and XML. Can be useful even for Web and
> Windows exams.
>
> --
> Mehran Nikoo
> MCSD, MCSD for .NET
>
>
> "Jeff Huntington" <jhuntington@saionline.com> wrote in message
> news:062901c2f7c4$a8fba530$a00
1280a@phx.gbl...
> > I agree! The Web Application Web Based Training kit is
> > terrible about bad examples. For example, don't try any
> > of the user control examples! They don't work.
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >Can anyone tell me why Microsoft continually show bad
> > examples when
> > >developers are trying to study for exams. I make a point
> > of the good
> > >old username 'sa' and blank password yet the continually
> > show examples
> > >and have downloads with such code. I also think they show
> > too many
> > >examples with sql strings and dont use stored procedures.
> > >
> > >
> > >Also why do we continually see poor exam books - surely
> > Microsoft
> > >Press should be able to produce a better standard of book
> > than at
> > >present. The amount of errors and code samples that dont
> > work is
> > >pretty high as well as typos on diagrams and screen shots.
> > >
> > >Cheers
> > >Greg
> > >.
> > >
>
>
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