Saturday, August 11, 2007
Book Review: Foundations of WF
As part of my .Net research I needed a quick introduction to Windows Workflow and selected Foundations of WF: an Introduction to Windows Workflow Foundation. However, I quickly abandonded this book. In fact, I never made it through Chapter 2.
The author is a VB guy and it shows. Not that there's anything wrong with VB, but all the examples are given first in VB, then in C#. The author discusses the C# code by saying "You'll notice how this differs from VB", assuming the reader read through the VB code first. I wanted to go straight to the C# code, but kept getting frustrated with all the "it's different". I finally gave up and purchased a different book. If you want to learn about WF, this is not the book to buy.
The author is a VB guy and it shows. Not that there's anything wrong with VB, but all the examples are given first in VB, then in C#. The author discusses the C# code by saying "You'll notice how this differs from VB", assuming the reader read through the VB code first. I wanted to go straight to the C# code, but kept getting frustrated with all the "it's different". I finally gave up and purchased a different book. If you want to learn about WF, this is not the book to buy.
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Have you checked out some of the MS Virtual Labs? I think they mostly use C# in their examples. I'm just starting to work through these myself - although I'm coding in VB (g)
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