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Title: Starts nicely, but ends at 10000' altitude
Review: I like the previous edition and pre-ordered this new one.I am satisfied with the first chapters, and also like the overall re-arrangement of the chapters, better than for the previous edition.Not being a web-developper, on the other hand, I cannot recommand this book for anything but trivial with databases or with GDI+. The book is hit very badly by trying to cover too much, it just miss the "pro" mark in many places, to be barely at the "advanced introducion" mark, imho. I like the new chapter on Generics, but the chapter I dislike the most is about "Viewing .Net Data". At the defense of the author(s), that is probably due to insane cuts made by the editor, but the end result is what the customer can read.One star, but that poor result is for the editor. Probably much more stars for the authors, at least, that sounds to have been a nice work, from the portions that seems to have been left intact.
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