Re: This is not a book sale list (was UI for Windows service)

Maybe I didn't get the point, but isn't this an online-list?!

So everybody who's asking questions here would expect to get answers
online as well.

Of course it might be possible to walk to the next bookstore to read the
recommended sections, but IMHO pointing people to do so is not what they
expect.

I agree to your point that it is annoying to answer the same questions
over and over again, but if you feel like this then don't answer - it's
annoying to read books answering the same old questions over and over
again as well. And it's not the nature of this list to get book
recommendations. 

Good online-links are quite different since they fullfil what people
want. Just a click and you get the information.

Of course this is just my opinion.
Regards
        Axel.



-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Neward [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Montag, 17. Juni 2002 22:57
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [DOTNET] This is not a book sale list (was UI for Windows
service)


Actually, as a member of the list, I sympathize, but as a book author as
well, I'd like to offer a slightly different spin on things; I can't
claim
this is everybody's motivation, but it certainly is mine:

I want to be helpful and answer the question, but I already answered the
question once (in the book), and while I want to be helpful and answer
it
again, the thought of typing all that stuff in again just seems
overwhelming. So it's easier for me to point to chapter such-and-such,
and
say "Look there". I don't really care if you BUY the silly thing; in
some
cases, I've outright told people to just go to the bookstore, read the
chapter, and put the book back on the shelf, since I didn't think they
needed any of the rest of it.

I grant, it's annoying sometimes, but often it's not intended to be any
more
of an advertisement than the equivalent of "Check out item 17 in the FAQ
at
http://www.somehost.com".... Why did somehost.com decide to host the
FAQ?
Because it brings people to their site.... :-)

Just my $.02 worth.

Ted Neward
{.NET || Java} Course Author & Instructor, DevelopMentor
(http://www.develop.com)
http://www.javageeks.com/tneward
http://www.clrgeeks.com/tneward

----- Original Message -----
From: "franklin gray" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 7:42 AM
Subject: [DOTNET] This is not a book sale list (was UI for Windows
service)


> Stop advertising your book!  I am sick of people answering questions
by,
it's in my book on page such and such.  If you don't want to answer the
question, then fine, don't.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Faison [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 9:20 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [DOTNET] UI for Windows service
>
>
> There is a complete example of a Service Control Program in my
> book "Component-Based Development with Visual C#" in chapter 16. The
> program uses a Windows Form-based UI to control the service. The
service
> shows its status with an icon in the Service Tray. By clicking on this
> icon, a context menu appears, with options for controlling the
service.
>
>
> --Ted Faison (author of book)
>
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