Practical .Net2 and C#2: Harness the Platform, the Language, the Framework (Paperback)

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Product Description

This book was conceived from real world experience. The author takes the point of view of the developer that needs to be productive. Concepts are illustrated with a multitude of relevant and directly usable examples. When appropriate, features of Visual Studio 2005 and other .NET development tools are explained.
With numerous references to standard programming principles, students as well as beginners will feel at ease. Seasoned developers will be glad to know that advanced features will also be discussed such as CLR internals, closures, transactional programming and .NET design patterns. The reader experienced with .NET 1 will take advantage of more than 400 pages solely dedicated to the new features of .NET2.

About the Author

Patrick Smacchia is a .NET MVP involved in software development for over 15 years. After graduating in mathematics and computer science from the ENSEEIHT school, he has worked on software in a variety of fields including stock exchange at Société Générale, airline ticket reservation system at Amadeus as well as a satellite base station at Alcatel. He's currently a software consultant and trainer on .NET technologies as well as the author of the freeware NDepend which provides numerous metrics and caveats on any compiled .NET application.

Product Details

• Paperback: 896 pages
• Publisher: Paradoxal Press (January 15, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0976613220
• ISBN-13: 978-0976613220
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.7 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #429,627 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely the best .NET book I've read, May 16, 2006

By	Gary Wagner (Roseville, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This is absolutely the BEST .NET/C# book. Why? Several reasons: It offers guidance on using the .NET framework and C# the way the designers intended it to be. The early emphasis on the platform (assemblies/CLR/security/threading...) is a welcome change from others books. The quality of the code examples is unusually high. The explanations are concise and to the point.

Have you ever wondered how to override equality operator taking account of null inputs? Whether you should use a structure or a class? What's the difference between MemoryStream and BufferedStream? How to properly handle exceptions? What is the difference between durable and volatile transactional resource managers? What's happening under the hood of C#2 anonymous methods? Wonder no more!

The author does succeed in distilling down the essence of .NET into 900 pages. Read it, you won't regret it!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great content and presentation, poor editing, March 8, 2006

By	Jason Kikel "Jason Kikel" (Cleveland, OH) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought this text after reading an article Smacchia wrote on Anonymous Methods which had completely blown me away. His work here is consistent with that article. His approach is characterized by very straight forward presentation and layout. The diagrams and tables throughout are fantastic!

Great moments in this text include chapters on Deployment, Thread Synchronization, Security, and Native Interop wich are all conspicuously missing from Troelsen's C# 2005 and the .NET 2.0 Platform.

The only trouble originates in Smacchia's French background. There are MANY English errors and clumsy wordings. Each of these only distract for a moment and don't hinder the points being taught, but are enough to bar a five star rating.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good content, pity no editor, April 24, 2006

By	Graeme Hood (Vienna, Austria) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Good, informative book, but could have used an English mother-tongue editor to correct the many mistakes. Every page has grammatical errors (and spelling and typing errors) which luckily the good quality content allows us to forgive. But shoot the editor please (or find one for your next book).