Product Description

Dig deep and master the intricacies of the common language runtime (CLR) and the .NET Framework. Written by a highly regarded programming expert and consultant to the Microsoft .NET team, this guide is ideal for developers building any kind of application—including Microsoft ASP.NET, Windows Forms, Microsoft SQL Server, Web services, and console applications. You’ll get hands-on instruction and extensive code C# code samples to help you tackle the tough topics and develop high-performance applications. Discover how to: • Build, deploy, administer, and version applications, components, and shared assemblies • Design types using constants, fields, constructors, methods, properties, and events • Work effectively with the CLR’s special types including enumerators, arrays, and strings • Declare, create, and use delegates to expose callback functions • Define and employ re-usable algorithms with interfaces and generics • Define, use, and detect custom attributes • Use exception handling to build robust, reliable, and security-enhanced components • Manage memory automatically with the garbage collector and work with native resources • Apply CLR Hosting, AppDomains, assembly loading, and reflection to build dynamically extensible applications PLUS—Get code samples on the Web 

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #150317 in Books
• Brand: Microsoft
• Published on: 2006-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 736 pages

Customer Reviews

Richter is the best....
I had the Framework 1.1 version of this book and this new version is just as good. The book should be purchased just for the exception handling section alone.

This is an invaluable reference for developers.

Very very good!!
Well, you wouldn't expect less from Mr. Ritcher, would you?

First things first. This is not a book for the novice. While some of the initial chapters explain basic details of .NET and the CLR (being experienced, you can safely peruse past them quickly), most of the chapters explore the different topics in a clear, concise and, at the same time, deep enough way. The chapter on CLR Hosting is a good example of this. This chapter, as a representative sample of the rest of the book, delivers some deep geek CLR knowledge that most average developers are not aware of at all, with a highly praisable clearness and quality.
Mr. Ritcher manages to make you understand the topics, provides useful examples and, to sum it up, thus makes of his book a very good guideline repository to be kept at hand when developing. Keep in mind, though, this is not a reference book that explains all .net namespaces or anything like that. It is, however, a reference book on some topics, a few of them quite advanced, that any serious developer should review from time to time.

Richter and Petzold are the best!!! ;-)

If you develop in C#, you should own this book!
Dont buy this book if you want an introduction to C#, but if you are a expereinced C# developer that wants indepth CLR/C# information explained in a clear and concise manner then Jeff Richter does a great job in clearly articulating his suject matter.

This is one of the best books I have seen on C# for a long time.