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Author/s : Brian Nantz
Publisher : Addison-Wesley
Category : C# and .NET
Review by : Lasse Koskela
Rating : 7 horseshoes</pre>
Brian Nantz's latest book, "Open Source .NET Development", strikes to me as a controversial title. On one hand, it's a fantastic tour for getting to know what tools you've got at your disposal when journeying into open source development using .NET. However, the depth of many of the chapters on a given tool or topic is a bit too far from what the back cover implies.
There are some very good chapters (the overview chapters, NAnt, NDoc, Log4NET) and some that I felt disappointed with (NUnit, Continuous Integration, DB development, Web development). The chapters that I liked, I really liked. They gave me as a newbie to .NET development a very good handle on how the things I've learned to do with the
Java counterparts work in the other side of the
fence. On the other hand, the chapters I felt to be too superficial did too much talking and failed to give answers to many questions that came to me while reading. Then again, some of the topics covered are simply too big to even attempt to cover with a single chapter.
I won't hesitate to recommend "Open Source .NET Development" to anyone looking for a picture of what's out there. For a reference, I'm afraid this title alone is not enough.
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