by Joe Duffy
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Product Description
- Offering authoritative, field-proven advice from a Microsoft insider, this book teaches the underlying commonalities that developers can use regardless of their language choice or development tools
- Extensive use of examples and working code provides developers with practical and authoritative coverage of the CLR (common language runtime) and APIs, the building blocks that make it possible to write in any choice of language
- Primary topics discussed include generics, MSIL (Microsoft Intermediate Language)-based framework libraries, advanced framework libraries, distributed development foundations, and more
- Version 2.0 is the version that provides the foundation for Visual Studio 2005
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
 We will cover it later., 2007-10-24
I can't really understand how people rate this book so high. The only thing I can say good about it is, it gives you a general idea what .NET framework includes. Very disorganized, lots of "and there is that but we will cover it later,below etc..". No comprehensive samples. All you can do with this book is to learn what you can do, but if you want to learn how to do it as well, go buy something else. Unfortunaltely this is what happens if you want to squeeze a whole platform into a single book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
I thought this book is mediocre., 2007-10-12
I bought it based on reviews I've seen on this page and after reading it cover to cover, felt extremely disappointed. I just can't understand why anyone would rate it so highly.
For starters, there are plenty of typos and grammatical mistakes. Apparently, the author does not believe in using commas, making it very difficult to decipher what he wants to say. But that is just a minor annoyance compared to other misgivings.
Throughout the whole book the author will use concepts from topics he had not yet discussed saying he will cover them later. He does attempt to cover them later but by then the meaning of the previous discussion is lost. He provides only cursory explanation of complex topics yet goes into gory detail on topics that are obvious to most people. For example, he devotes a huge section of one chapter to explaining sting member methods that are obvious to most from IntelliSense. There are very few examples. I was able to complete this book only because I had previously read Richter's "CLR via C#". I did learn a few things, just not sure if my time was well spent reading the whole book.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Great P2P, 2006-10-18
Before buying this book, I had no idea what .NET was. This book gave me the insight from the ground up to a fairly advanced features of .NET 2.0. Now, I am evangelising .NET to my whole team and pushing to upgrade from (the out of support) VS v6.0 to VS 2005.
I have a very strong background in COM/COM+, C++, and VB. That helped tremendously in my understanding in the discussions on generics, delegates, interfaces, abstract classes, threading, etc.
This book would have gotten a 5-star from me if not for the minor spelling and grammatical errors. But hey, we're programmers not english teachers =)
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Pretty good book to know .Net FrameWork, 2006-09-13
I liked this book pretty much. Contents are well organized and clearly described. Lots of pointers to good reference materials for topics discussed and not discussed. Gives an indepth knowledge of how objects are created and handled. It's pretty interesting and you can't just keep the book down.
I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to know .Net FrameWork either a beginner or experienced.
Note: Knowing framework well really helps to write good programming, rather than just knowing a language.
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
 A Valuable and Recommended Authoritative Source of Dotnet info, 2006-08-06
Took me a while to finally review this after receiving this book several months ago, but I felt it definitely necessary to leave my opinion. Joe Duffy strikes a good balance between writing an organized source of solid NET 2.0 reference material, and just simply talking to you as an expert programmer who is sitting in the next cubicle from you.
And instead of trying to stay overly structured (covering a specific subject and nothing else in each chapter like I've seen a lot in computer books), he will sometimes mention a feature of the CLR that has its own chapter later, but that you should look make sure to combine with the current topic for great results.
Joe hit that perfect target of not too many examples, but supplying enough of them. It seemed like in every instance that
I started to get a little ansy and wanted to an example of his dotnet development instruction, there it was, a perfect code example to show me the way, and not too much of it.
Duffy goes out of the way to inform you as to what CLR functionality is especially useful, and compares a particular API feature with the way another language (such as C++/Stl or Java) implements it.
It's very evident that the author is actively using dotnet (even moreso, he is also a Program Manager on the CLR Team), because he will be sure to tell you that something is very useful
(like he said about anonymous delegates), or that something is powerful (the new 2.0 Generics or Contraints. ).
It's just pure programmer to programmer value.
And he'll be sure to alert you as to how to minimize any potential gotcha's when running 1.x apps under 2.0 by telling
you what compatibility switches to use, and he mentions an important one related to exceptions
(by the way, great coverage of exceptions).
It's a very thorough treatment of 2.0. Covers all of the important topics and more, of the DotNet framework.
It would be useless to continue with more here in this review, because it's a given that you need to have all of the quality books concerning a particular language or framework if you plan on mastering it, so no more need to be said.
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