+1 for this book. On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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-via-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 > > > > >
