Re: Reference Book
I think it's tough for book writers these days with so much free code being
available quickly on the net. It used to be that the books were the only
place to learn the "secrets", but now there really are no secrets. I don't
know anyone who is writing a "book" for a living these days. Mostly I see
people doing this as an adjuct to some other career goal. Since Wrox did a
lot of tech books my guess is they are either moving away from those or
hurting.
One other thing about the book market is the techies tend to want to write
about the newest coolest thing. Thus, there seem to be hundreds of books
that all say the same thing about C# and other .NET only languages these
days. My take is if you buy one of them you've filled out your library.
Tom
"David Ching" <dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com> wrote in message
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While I don't have any of the Wrox MFC books other Wrox books I've used
suffer from lots of example code but not much explanation.
YMMV.
What's the deal with Wrox? They were great, going strong, then a couple
years ago they sold all their books to Apress. But I still see Wrox
titles on the shelf. I love Wrox's style (they cut to the chase), but
their new line seems to target web development and other uninteresting
stuff.
-- David