Not Very In-Depth, Not a lot of code examples

I went out and purchased this book based on some good reviews here at Amazon. I was really unimpressed with it. It is much less a primer on how to program "AI" types of apps with .NET, and much more a manual of how to use Microsoft applications like their speech services and data mining.

I do .NET for a living, which is to say that I am probably not an expert but am proficient. This book was not really aimed at .NET programming. It was aimed at "look at these cool MS apps" and "here is how to right click to enable data cubes". What I mean to say here is that when a topic came up like speech recognition, way to much attention was paid to how to use the Microsoft Wizards and Configuration tools, and little or no time was spent on the actual API or coding practices. In some cases no example programming code was provided.

This book was really sub-par compared to many of the other programming books I have purchased in general. I really don't want to be mean to the author, as she seems to really care about the subject matter. IMHO this book just is not very good, does not provide very good examples, and does not show anywhere near enough actual .NET code.

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