Just received delivery of this book today. I purchased the first edition many years ago, lent it to someone and never saw it again.
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:17 AM, DotNet Dude <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, I shall check it out. Richter is a smart dude! > > 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 > > > > > > > > > -- Scott Baldwin Readify - Senior Consultant blog: http://sjbdeveloper.blogspot.com
