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Preaching As a Theological Task: World, Gospel, Scripture: In Honor of David Buttrick
Published in Paperback by Westminster John Knox Press (1996)
Authors: Thomas G. Long and Edward Farley
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and a half. Recommended but most info is available online
Writing a book on the .NETcf is a challenge because there is a wide target audience to pick from...Each group has different needs e.g. introduction to programming for small devices OR to programming against the .NET libraries OR to differences with the desktop version etc. So, inevitably you will belong in one or more of the above categories with corresponding requirements and hence will find redundant info in a book that tries to please all people - such as this book.

You will find introductions to the classes of the .NET framework that exist on both desktop and CF. These are very good descriptions and even though there are deeper explanations in other books, here you have the confidence that everything described is applicable without having to check elsewhere for supported classes/methods. If you are very familiar with the desktop version you will be able to skim through a good half of the material in the book just noting the differences.

There are areas which are new to the CF or just very different from the desktop and these are covered well, including deployment, infrared comms and SqlServerCe. The winform controls have fewer methods than their desktop counterparts and as such you will have to create custom controls fairly often so the chapter on this subject is very valuable and well written. You will also have to interoperate with native code and the chapter on that is good including an excellent description of the CF-specific MessageWindow component.

Two areas are briefly touched upon and deserve much more attention: Targeting both the desktop and compact frameworks from the same projects and COM interoperability. I would have also liked a chapter on performance considerations since, naturally, speed and memory are of particular interest to anybody developing on small devices; a search on the cf newsgroup emphasizes this point.

The book ends with a useful appendix listing the framework namespaces and classes with a short description accompanying the ones that are supported on the CF. I am not including a list of the contents here but it is worth going through them to get a fuller picture. They are very accurate as you'd expect from a book that is well written with few if any grammatical/syntactical mistakes (although a couple of harmless factual errors crept in).

The .NETcf is in RTM and available through VS 2003 (public release expected end of April 03). It is no surprise that this is the only book on it available now which is why I could have given it 5 stars... However there are no groundbreaking ideas in the book and most info is available on the web...

Very good technical book
I am half way through this book and I liked it. The authors are definitely doers and you can see it from the tips they provided. The samples are very extensive.

It's the book for Compact framework programming.

Don't forget to get the AskDotNet sample from GotDotNet.com, very good project too.

Everything you need for .Net Compact Framework
Jan Yeh

This book is good for .NET developers who want to port their application to .NET Compact Framework, and also must-have for eMbedded Visual Tools developers who want to migrate from eVB, eVC, VBCE, VCCE. Although this book is full of C# codes, there are samples for VB.NET as well.

There are many important topics included in this book, such as Data Accessing(ADO.Net & SQLCE), XML & XML Web Services, Multi-threading, Interoperating with Native Code, Custom Controls for .NET Compact Framework, and more than that.

If you want to learn more about .NET Compact Framework programming, or you are familiar with eMbedded Visual Tools, this could be your text book or survival guide.

After surveying books talk about .NET Compact Framework, this is what I can say, "NEVER MISS THIS"!


Inventing the Future: A Photobiography of Thomas Alva Edison
Published in School & Library Binding by National Geographic (2002)
Authors: Marfe Ferguson Delano and David Edward Edison Sloane
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Not the holly grial
Well, I find that this book is really easy to read, and it probably is a good book if you know little about mixing, but to someone who has some knowledge on the subject, almost everything will sound familiar (at least). Also, if you're looking for a "cookbook" go find some other book, as this one hasn't fast and hard mixing rules.

Overall, it's a good book, but after reading so many positive reviews, I was expecting something else...

Great fundamentals
This book was extremely helpful. I've been doing radio production for years but never had any formal training in mixing, processing, etc. The specifics in this book helped me in so many ways, I wish that I'd known about it long ago. There are places where it doesn't go into enough detail but, it is great for getting a grip on the basics.

I found it very useful.
When my friends decided to make a band as a joke, I decided I'd pick this up. When a few of my friends decided to each learn a musical instrument at the same time, we thought it'd be fun to get together and make some really awful music under the guise of a fake band name. Yes, we're awfully bored an awful lot. After some thought, I thought I'd learn drums and perhaps some mixing on the side. With the help of this affordable little handbook, I was able to not only play some [bad] drums, but [bad] remix it when I was done. What could be better than that! Obviously, with my incredibly low expectations, I found this book to be very good. I guess that probably doesn't help much though, huh.


The Essential T.E. Lawrence
Published in Paperback by Oxford University Press (1992)
Authors: T. E. Lawrence, David Garnett, and Malcolm Brown
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The Letters of T.E. Lawrence
Published in Hardcover by Hyperion Pr (1980)
Authors: Thomas E. Lawrence and David Garnett
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Policy Evaluation in the Public Sector: Approaches and Methods
Published in Hardcover by Avebury (1992)
Authors: Colin Palfrey, Ceri Phillips, Paul Thomas, and David Edwards
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Saint Patrick, A.D. 493-1993 (Studies in Celtic History, Vol 13)
Published in Hardcover by Boydell & Brewer (1996)
Authors: David N. Dumville, Lesley Abrams, and Thomas Charles-Edwards
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In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics
Published in Paperback by Routledge Kegan & Paul (1988)
Author: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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Beyond Machiavelli : Tools for Coping With Conflict
Published in Paperback by Penguin USA (Paper) (1996)
Authors: Roger Fisher, Elizabeth Kopelman, and Andrea Kupfer Schneider
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