THE CNE-4 STUDY GUIDE, PUBLISHED BY SYBEX, IS ANOTHER GREAT EXAMPLE OF THE QUALITY WORK THAT IS DELIVERED FROM SYBEX. THE AUTHORS OF THIS BOOK HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB IN ARRANGING THE CONTENT IN A MATTER THAT IS EASY TO UNDERSTAND AND FOLLOW. THIS STUDY GUIDE HAS EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TO PASS YOUR CNE 4 EXAM. THE CNE-4 STUDY GUIDE IS VERY COMPREHENSIVE, ALLOWING FOR THIS BOOK TO NOT ONLY BE USED AS A STUDY GUIDE, BUT AS A REFFERENCE MANUAL FOR HOW-TO INFORMATION WHEN ADMINISTRATING OR SUPPORTING A NOVELL 4.1 NETWORK. ANOTHER GREAT FROM SYBEX

This book serves as a good introductory to .NET Reflection. The book doesn't cover the Reflection.Emit class which is primarily what I was looking to learn about. I am some what disappointed.

The book comes with an 'excellent' set of real world examples, solutions and a lot of information you simply can't do without! If you're interested in 'really' unleashing .NET's true power, this book is just what you need! Once you're done with it, you'll wish the book never ended :) Yes, it's THAT good!

One of a growing series of books, this is the second that I'd picked up and even better than the first one (which was the Remoting). This book covers reflection in all its glory - giving all the details that we need to use reflection to the full. Where the book stands out from others is that it not only gives the technical details but also puts all the examples into a real world situation giving an insight into why we're using reflection in the first place. Definitely worth the [money] ...

Finally WROX has produced a complete book that satisfies and is not so thick if you drop it on your foot it will break your toes. It is dirt cheap considering the wealth and quality of information. If you are a beginning to Intermediate VB.net programmer run do not walk to store and get it! The biggest omission is attributes - they should have been in this book.

WROX books are often oversized and incomplete or part of a family of books that means you have to figure out which of many books to learn one thing* and even if you buy ALL the books surprisingly you will be missing some vital commands as their editors allow much overlap and rarely check if they covered all relevant commands.

* Fast Track VB.net, Beginning VB.net, Beginning VB.net w/ASP.net, Beginning .NET Web Services with VB.NET, Professional ASP.NET Web Services with VB.NET, Professional VB.net, VB.net Namespace Reference, professional ASP.net w/VB.net, Beginning ASP.NET Databases using VB.NET, ad nauseum

I usually hate the first chapter in every WROX book. It is usually unsatisfying fluff. This Chapter 1: Defining Types is an awesome chapter. Insightful, useful, easy to read and concise. Great way to start!

Chapter 2: Type Members
Chapter 3: Methods
are also great chapters. Easy to read, no fluff, code samples and plenty of insight.

Chapter 4: Constructors and the Object Life Cycle
very thorough and clear. The Singleton and factory basics were nice touch. It is a shame they did not cover garbage collection and serialization better. These are very incomplete explanations.

Chapter 5: properties
Chapter 6: Events
are just nicely done. I have 47 books next to my desk on VB.net and they all have lousy code samples and over wrought explanations of delegates. The Events and delegate code samples and explanations are what I wish I had months ago.

Chapter 7: Inheritance and Polymorphism
this is a decent chapter and easy to read. It however should probably point people to other sources to follow through (WROX should really start including bibliographies with their books) since even if people mechanically can use Inheritance and Interfaces they need be pointed to relevant pattern design, Refactoring and UML books to gain wisdom since this chapter is all knowledge and no wisdom.
Refactoring
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0201485672/learnasp
and
Design Patterns Explained
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0201715945/learnasp
are my recommend reading for anyone doing OO in any language.

Chapter 8: Code Organization and MetaData
anther winner! GAC and Reflection are nice touch.

I'm only a few chapters into this book and I'm already finding it to be very good. I really like the writing style. As an experienced VB 6 developer I have struggled with some of the new terms in .NET. I think this book is doing a good job explaining the terms and giving some practical explanation about their use.

Most of all the book is highly focused on Class Design and the specific details of the .NET world.

Its also not a big book, so won't be hard to read in a short period of time.

This book is fantastic. If you are a VB6 developer and you want to understand this monster called .NET, then you need to check out this book. This book covers reference types vs. value types, properties, methods, garbage collection, proper OO design, and .NET class design best practices. Many VB developers have never really taken to the concept of Object Oriented development. If you are one that has never needed to learn Object Oriented programming then you NEED to check this book out. This book will show you many of things that you have been missing and how they can make your life easier.

I bought the book originally because the organization and language seemed straightforward. Luckily I purchased a copy of CNE Quizzer 4.5 from Certify.com to pretest since the accompanying CD-ROM proved worthless. It was after doing the pretests that I became painfully aware that the book fell short in three very important areas:1) Terminology-Novell exams are very specific and the book isn't. 2) Detail-There just isn't enough detail on Object or File System Rights. 3)Examples\Case Studies-Very few review questions and no real case studies.

When I identified the failings of the study guide, I found myself referring back to the Novell Press IntranetWare Administrator's Handbook By Kelley Lindberg to fill in the gaps. Although it's not a study-guide, it was more valuable than the Moncur\Chellis book and has a permanent place in my crash kit.

If it wasn't for the CyberPass pretest and Lindberg's book, I would have failed the CNA test. It's sad that there aren't any better guides on the market-so at this point I'm fronting the money for actual courseware.

I am currently a CNE for Netware 3, I was needing to pass the Building Intranets test to upgrade my certification for Intranetware. This book gave a good overview, was easy to read and quick to learn from. The main problem with this book became painfully obvious after using CNE Quizzer 4.5 and failing a couple times that there is no way to pass this test using this book. The book lacked the fine details that Novell likes to test you on. I obtained my CNE certification in 9 1/2 weeks using mainly Novell course books. There is some irony in how I passed Building Intranets. After failing the test, I went to a book store to look up objectives that I missed. The irony is that I found a paperback study guide for intranetware published by the same company that published this book. This book was less expensive, more detailed had sections with questions, and a CD-Rom with a quizzer on it. In less than 15 minutes I found where I went wrong on the test and went back and kicked the test out with a 636 (passing score was 575). Although I did not buy this book, it looked like a good alternative to Novell books. From now on, I plan on using only Novell course material so I don't waste my time or money.

Sybex would be the only book I would suggest if you are taking a Microsoft test, I used them to obtain my MCSE, however for Novell tests they just don't cover enough information to pass the test. This book is way to expensive and I would suggest buying the Novell Press books.