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Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform
By: Andrew Troelsen
Publisher: Apress
Pub. Date: May 14, 2010
Print ISBN: 978-1-4302-2549-2
Web ISBN: 1-4302-2549-1
Pages in Print Edition: 1752
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Overview
The first edition of this book was released at the 2001 Tech-Ed conference in Atlanta, Georgia. At that time, the .NET platform was still a beta product, and in many ways, so was this book. This is not to say that the early editions of this text did not have merit—after all, the book was a 2002 Jolt Award finalist and it won the 2003 Referenceware Excellence Award. However, over the years that author Andrew Troelsen spent working with the common language runtime (CLR), he gained a much deeper understanding of the .NET platform and the subtleties of the C# programming language, and he feels that this fifth edition of the book is as close to a "final release" as he's come yet.
This new edition has been comprehensively revised and rewritten to make it accurately reflect the C# 4 language specification for the .NET 4 platform. You'll find new chapters covering the important concepts of dynamic lookups, named and optional arguments, Parallel LINQ (PLINQ), improved COM interop, and variance for generics.
If you're checking out this book for the first time, do understand that it's targeted at experienced software professionals and/or graduate students of computer science (so don't expect three chapters on iteration or decision constructs!). The mission of this text is to provide you with a rock-solid foundation in the C# programming language and the core aspects of the .NET platform (assemblies, remoting, Windows Forms, Web Forms, ADO.NET, XML web services, etc.). Once you digest the information presented in these 25 chapters, you'll be in a perfect position to apply this knowledge to your specific programming assignments, and you'll be well equipped to explore the .NET universe on your own terms.
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"Meandering but helpful" - by JD on 25-MAY-2011
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Like many other developers, I turn to technical books like these for a particular chapter to research a particular technology. In this case, I read Chapter 19 because I wanted to learn more about multithreaded programming.
The information contained in this chapter was relevant and informative. The flow was a bit bumpy in places (excessive code examples, many of which revealed no new information, chopped up the text making it hard to follow) but I was still able to get what I wanted out of it - and it was worth the time investment.
The only really annoying aspect was that the early sections, while providing foundation, tended to be the least helpful. Too many long-winded examples basically ended with "but that's not how you actually want to do it in reality... more later." The TPL (Microsoft's recommended platform for parallel programming) didn't show up until after "Programming with Timer Callbacks" ... timer callbacks?!? Why was that section even in this book?
I wish they had flipped it - giving me the most helpful, up-to-date, relevant information first and then providing foundation upon further inspection.
Having said that, I must admit that I learned a good deal about asynchronus delegates in the first section, "A Brief Review of the .NET Delegate".
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