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Summary: Excellent coverage of the CLR and the .NET Framework
Comment: 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.
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Summary: Amazing clarity and depth
Comment: 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.
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Summary: Some important topics missing...
Comment: 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)
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Summary: A well written reference
Comment: This book is a must have for any serious .NET developer. It covers the essentials, e.g. .NET runtime, how virtual methods are called, inheritance, indexers, interfaces, string manipulations, events, value and reference types and their representation in IL, IL itself, and Reflection. Everything is explained in-depth. This is _not_ another cheesy "Learn C# in 20 hours" brochure but a well written reference.
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Summary: Amazing book, but ....
Comment: 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.
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