Folks, a quick book review. I highly recommend the book CLR via C# 3rd Edition by Jeffrey Richter.
http://www.wintellect.com/CS/blogs/jeffreyr/archive/2009/06/17/clr-via-c-3rd -edition.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2010/01/21/rtm-d-today-clr-v ia-c-third-edition.aspx I think writing in a high level language makes you lazy, like driving a really comfortable car every day. You forget how it works, you just press buttons and pedals and it goes. This book really shakes you up and shows you what your lazy coding is doing under the hood. Even if you claim you're a top gun ninja programmer, I reckon almost every chapter will contain something that you've forgotten or something that will be nicely clarified. I found the chapters on AppDomains, serialization and threads really illuminating. A similar book that impressed me equally a few years ago was Framework 2 by Joe Duffy. Sadly, it doesn't look like there's any update to that title for later Frameworks. I just found that Richter is already planning a Framework 4 edition, so this 3rd edition I purchased a few weeks ago is already landfill. Cheers, Greg
