>>>

>>>Book b = new Book("WPF Recipes in C#2008");
>>>b.Publisher = "Apress";
>>>b.Peruse();
>>>b.ContentType = ContentType.Crap;
>>>b.Dispose();
>>>

>>
>>Oh God, It's already shipped Amazon says .....
>
>It's possible I'm being too harsh - it's just not what I was hoping for. For these guys a culinary example of a recipe would be peeling a potato. The whole book is just dozens of examples of how to achieve relatively simple tasks: e.g:
>
>Problem: You want to allow the user to expand and collapse sections of the UI.
>Solution : Use an Expander Control
>Followed by a page of code that does nothing but put four buttons inside an expander control.
>
>The majority of the book seems to be made up of similarly trivial examples (although there might be a bit more meat in the section on Multi-threading which I haven't delved into).
>
>Every example is accompanied by complete code to run it as a standalone app - but if you were actually enthused enough to want to try it you'd have to type the whole thing in - there's no access to the source.
>
>It also looks as if the publisher gave them a couple of free bag fulls of commas which they scattered randomly throughout the text - I found I was actually distracted by tripping over superflous punctuation to the point where I wasn't absorbing the content.
>
>Anyway SET RANT OFF as they say in the VFP world....
>Best,
>Viv

Oh well - I'll always learn something - and who cares about a book too many ?