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Summary: incredibly deceptive title
Review: this book is a complete 'under the covers' look at .net, which is a fine goal in and of itself. however, applied to me means means 'applying .net towards accomplishing a given programming goal', which this book will *not* help you with at all. If you want to know all the underlying details (which is sometimes useful) this may be a good book, but if you want to learn new tricks and techniques for actually using .net in your daily programming work or to program something, this book is a huge detour.
Just wanted to make people aware that the title is totally incorrect for what the contents are, I'm returning it since it wasn't what i thought it was.
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Summary: great book
Review: This is a very good book. I would recomend reading it to anyone who wants to learn how the .net framework works.
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Summary: Good but not a classic
Review: I was fascinated by some parts of the book(the chapters on delegates, exceptions & GC are really good), but some of it left me saying "duh". Richter does state the obvious at times, but all-in-all this book has a lot of info that you just can't find elsewhere. I think that the complaint of some reviewers dealing with the "trivial" nature of some of the info is valid, but some of the info is essential for writing tight code(the boxing info. for instance). Richter always brings good common sense to the table, and has a gift for explaning things clearly. I've read other .NET authors who don't.
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Summary: Necessary Reading for Any .NET Developer
Review: While this book may not be aptly named (the term 'applied' is a bit misleading as it implies 'real-world application' - this is an intermediate level discussion of the .NET platform), it certainly should be considered mandatory reading for anyone venturing into the domain of .NET. You simply cannot be an effective engineer without having some grasp of the platform you're developing for and hold at least a cursory understanding of how it all works. This book gives you that detailed look at .NET and the CLR from the inside-out (mostly in the context of C#, however, this is by no means a definitive C# reference). While not a definitive reference, this is a great book to whet your appetite on IL fundamentals and metadata - the lifeblood of .NET. This was not one of Richter's strongest works (such as Advanced Windows) as he spends a little too much time on the soapbox lobbying Microsoft for his pet-.NET features in this book, but if you can overlook these intermittent fits of angst, you'll come away with a solid understanding of what makes .NET tick.Since 99% of the examples in this book are in C#, I highly recommend reading this book in conjunction with a solid C# programming/reference at your side such as Programming C# Second Edition by Jesse Liberty (O'Reilly).
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Summary: THE WORD on .NET via C#
Review: This book deserves all the praise given by other reviewers. All I can add is a run down of some of the answers this book provides to questions that should be asked by all .NET developers: (1) in-depth understanding of versions, versioning, and AssemblyInfo.cs, (2) thorough understanding of the GAC, public/private keys, etc., (3) excellent, low level coverage of Attributes, (intra-language) data-types, delegates, events, exceptions, etc. All the examples are provided in C#, which I'm happy for, but VB developers need this knowledge too. Perhaps more than C# developers because it differs from what they've known. It seems C# is becomming Microsoft's language of choice, so VB developers should take advantage of this opportunity to jump in head first ... before Microsoft pushes you in.
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Summary: Delightful - Informative and Entertaining
Review: So many other reviewers have said it already, so I'll be brief. This wonderful book presents the internals of the CLR and CLS in a concise, comprehensive and easy to read format that I found difficult to put down. I've read almost a dozen hald-baked books on various aspects of .NET programming (yes, we know that it's ok to use data binding...) and was ready to give up on the whole lot of them when a friend reccommended this one. This book is everything to c sharp and .NET that Ted Pattison's classics are to VB 6 and COM. If you're looking for an incredible book (with the funniest introductory quotes you're likely to ever read) that shows you the what, why and how, buy this book. If you want to know how to bind a DataGrid server control to a DataSet object, go buy some [stuff] from wrox...
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Summary: Great book...
Review: ...for professional .Net programmers, wanting to move on to the next level. The "advanced .Net programmer"-level! This book might very well earn the same status in the .Net-community as Bruce McKinneys "Hardcore Visual Basic"-books did in the Visual Basic-community. Not for beginners though... /Per Hultqvist
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Summary: Excellent Job, Jeffrey
Review: This is an excellent book on the .NET framework. The author explains the internals of the framework very well. I am primarily a VB developer. Although, the code samples are in C#, it is fairly simple to understand the code. The chapters on Packaging & Deployment, Shared Assemblies, Types, Exceptions, and CLR Hosting, AppDomains, and Reflection are written very well. Now that I have read the book once, I understand the framework better. During the first read, some of the things just went over my head. I'm sure I'll be reading it again one more time to better understand the framework, which is the MEAT & POTATOES of the .NET buzz. Although, the .NET tool shields the programmers from all the framework intricacies, I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to know how the CLR functions.
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Summary: GET THIS NOW!
Review: This is a must have for every serious .net developer. It goes into the lower level stuff, which helps you understand the technology way better. The code examples are writen mostly in C#, but it isn't hard to follow since the book is about the technology and not any language in particular. After reading this book, you'll feel like you know the clr almost as well as windows :). Enough of me, get the book and see for yourself.
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Summary: A rare winner from Microsoft Press
Review: To date, I have not been impressed with Microsoft's in-house imprint, but this title may force me to reconsider. This book is a full exposition of the .Net platform, focusing on the CLR, CTS, IL and other technologies that lie under the hood. This is a dense book - there is a lot to digest and you will need to set aside a couple of weeks to read it. That said, Richter clearly understands the topic matter, and he has no problems conveying the information to the reader in a clear fashion. Note that this is not a book on C# programming. Also note that this book is far superior to the ".Net Framework Eseentials" from O'Reilly. Finally note that there is a lot of free documentation in the .Net SDK, and you may want to look into it before buying any book.
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