Re: Best Book to prepare for MCSD exam

From: Eliezer (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/10/04 

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 09:17:18 -0700

Schfooge,

It's good to hear I'm not alone on this. I had many
emails back and forth between myself and the supposed-
editor and between myself and both authors in attempts to
try to get their code to run...

>-----Original Message-----
>
>"Eliezer" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:86cc01c495e5$384f5870$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>>I would like to (once again) begin preparing for the
MCSD.
>>
>> I started and made some significant headway in the book
by
>> Cassidy and Shapton printed by Osborne called "MCAD/MCSD
>> Visual Basic.NET Web Applications". I found its
examples
>> full of errors and somewhat hard to follow, i.e. poorly
>> written.
>
>I made the mistake of buying their matching book for for
Windows
>Applications. However, I must admit that I learned more
from figuring out
>to how to get their examples working than I would have if
they had run
>flawlessly. If you go to Osborne's site and look up the
errata for this
>book, you will see more than a few I submitted.
>
> The funny thing is that there are several more
mistakes that I submitted
>that they didn't add to the errata. Which indicates to
me that they don't
>have anyone on staff who understands enough about VB.NET
to understand
>something's wrong, even when it's spelled out for them
what the problem is.
>
> There's one other thing that bothered me about this
book, and I've seen
>this problem with other books from other publishers.
They write the code
>with the assumption that everyone's computer is set to
the culture en-us
>(English, United States), when they plan to sell the same
edition of the
>book internationally. My computer's set to en-ca
(English, Canada). The
>main thing that stands out is dates. US short dates are
month-day-year,
>while almost everyone else uses day-month-year. You
would think that
>someone who is teaching programming would know enough to
avoid using short
>dates. Personally, I favour using the format 10-mar-2004
(for example).
>It's short, and it leaves no doubt which is the day and
which is the month.

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