Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Some C#, ASP.NET and SQL books

Browsed some C#, ASP.NET and SQL books. Quickly get through large amount of material, to review and refresh old knowledge, and gain an understanding of new advancement. Most of these books are written for beginners. However, each more or less covers things I did not notice in the past.

- ASP.NET 2.0 in C# 2005
- Learn Microsoft Visual C# 2010. By John Paul Mueller
- murach's ASP.NET web programming with C# 2010, 4th Edition.
- Visual C# 2008. By John Sharp
- Visual C# 2012. By John Sharp. (This book is a minor update from the 2008 version)
- Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 hours
- MS SQL Server 2008, by Mike Hotek.
- Big Data for Dummies

Long words short, ASP.NET evolution (see wiki page on ASP.NET):

- 2002.1   1.0  OO, based on windows programming, can use DLL. ADO.NET. VS.NET
- 2003.4   1.1  Automatic input validation; mobile controls. Bug fix, performance increase. VS.NET 2003.
- 2005.11  2.0 Major updates: Partial class, Generics, Anonymous methods, Iterators, master page, theme, navigation, Grid/Form/DetailsView, Login, skin etc. VS.NET 2005
- 2006.11  3.0 WCF, WPF, WFF,
- 2007.11  3.5 MVC (easier to test and for plugable IoC containers etc.), Silverlight, LINQ, Ajax, ADO.NET Entity Framework, ListView, DataPager etc. VS.NET 2008. Windows Server 2008.
- 2012.4    4.0 Parallel extensions.
- 2012.8    4.5 VS.NET 2012. Windows Server 2012. Window 8.

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