Customer Reviews
kikalo said
I've really enjoyed this title. This is a great book. Ease to read, the examples are clear, it does an excellent work in explaining the subject matter. I've rated 5 stars event though I was disappointed for not seeing any coverage of subjects like threading or serialization.
Anonymous said
This is one of those very few fat books that i'll read again and again. I recommend this book for anyone who aspires to better his/her existing knowledge about the .NET framework in a very clear and crisp manner.
shripad_torvi said
Its one of the best books, but surely not a Bible and Not a 5*. It DOES NOT cover all topics. Most importantly, Threads and Asynchronous calls are missing. No remoting or web stuff either, and not much on security.
In essense, this is a very good book to get started but not as a reference for 'everything in .Net'. This covers basic types, text, strings, enums, exceptions, arrays, memory management..you get the idea, right?
We at work, read through the entire book - and in the end, had to go to the O'Reilly book by Juwal Lowy for Threading, thread synchronization and async calls... So, If you are a Backend or middle layer developer, get Juwal Lowy and Richter. Between the two you will have most of .NET programming covered (other than web specific stuff)
sprash said
As most of the reviews suggest, it is a great book and I highly recommend you to buy it.
There is a cheaper alternative to buying this though. Search for The Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming in C# Collection by the same author (Jeffrey Richter). That edition contains this book with lots of additional materials (CDs, Class Library posters etc) and surprisingly its MUCH cheaper than buying this by itself.
mastertechbooks said
I can strongly recommend this (the C# edition of this book), as it comes with many great posters and fixes all the errata from the earlier edition. In my opiniion, this is one of the best C#/.NET books ever released (I would put Juval Lowey's latest book up there as well).
I can say from experience that many of the interviews I have done for contracts for my .NET Consulting company have been largely out of this book. I would imagine the same would hold for individuals, and I certainly borrow some concepts in my interviews (which only one in 100 can pass).
There is little not to like about this book, but I would of liked to have seen more on Threading and more of the FCL, but the goal of the book was to give you the foundation not so much the practical 'do this and this and this' without knowing why. For people who want to be above average this is almost certainly a must read and for technical leaders you must know this information somehow, by reading this book or some other way.
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