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Cross-Platform .NET Development: Using Mono, Portable.NET, and Microsoft .NET
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| Binding: | Kindle Edition |
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| Label: | Apress |
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| Publisher: | Apress |
| Studio: | Apress |
Editorial Reviews
— Midwest Book Review, Internet Bookwatch
.NET is not just for Windows anymore! And this unprecedented book examines the advantages of building portable, cross-platform.NET code. Even if you are only vaguely familiar with .NET, with the aid of this book, you'll quickly learn how to run .NET code on different platforms.
You may run code among the Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and Windows platforms. And you'll get to choose among Mono (for Linux), Portable.NET (for Mac OS X), and of course, .NET for Windows. What's more, authors Mark Easton and Jason King pack the book with example code and wisdom, providing you a well-rounded skill set. Based on years of personal .NET experience, the authors share years of expertise&emdash;do's, dont's, pitfalls, gotchas, and insights&emdash;in the convenience of a single, handy book.
Customer Reviews
Michael J. Ryan @ 2005-03-03 Good on principles, shallow on cross-platform libraries.
In that I was a bit disappointed, but I was very happy to see how many somewhat advanced design principles were covered, and the breadth of this book. I am hoping that they expand into at least a companion book on maybe the Tao libraries, GTK#, wx.Net and other cross-platform libraries for front-end/interface coding.
I've also been reading the Nantz book for "Open Source .Net Development" and found it to be even more broad, and more shallow. Hopefully we will see some books that cover a bit more depth on fewer topics, and more specifically towards open-source cross platform libraries.
It is definately a good book, and covers a lot into the hows, and why's, but not so deep in any of the topics covered that you get a solid grasp on anything beyond design principles... This gives it a Four-Star rating in my book. It's worth a read for a mid-level developer looking to branch out into more serious development, or a development manager looking for better organization into development (cross platform or not). Don't expect to walk away comfortable on any of the tools that are mentioned in the book.
Midwest Book Review @ 2004-12-12 A guide written especially for professionals
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