If you want to read just one book about C#, then there is nothing better than this one. I consider CLR via C# as a canonical book for C# development. Why is that?
First of all, Jeffrey Richter has an excellent writing style. He doesn't show you just a correct way how to solve a problem, but he also tries to explain why the solution he chooses is the best on. The book contains many advices how to write a code in the most efficient way, what pitfalls you can expect and how to cope with them. And what is best - even the hardest things are explained in that way that every intermediate developer can understand them.
Second thing is a deepness of the book. The author doesn't show you just C# constructs, but he gives you an internal description how these constructs are implemented. So for instance in case of events or delegates you don't just learn C# syntax, but you will see how C# translates these constructs to MSIL (CLR assembly language). In case boxing and unboxing you will understand not just what is the difference between reference and value types, but on many samples you can see when CLR have to do these memory and performance consuming operations.
Third thing is the last part of book - threading. Definitely the best way how to learn multithreading programming I have ever seen.
Fourth thing is coverage. The book covers nearly all essential parts of C# and .NET platform. The book doesn't describe any particular API like ASP.NET or WPF, but it gives you solid basis for learning these specialized APIs.
The only thing I miss is CAS security. I thing the next edition of the book could have some info about CAS which was greatly simplified in .NET 4.0.
CLR via C# is an excellent book for every developer who wants to learn C#. The book is not aimed to absolute beginners (knowledge of OOP is must) but if you know some object oriented language (C++/Java) and wants to learn C#, there isn't any better material.
8 years ago I started my C# study with the first edition of this text and it thought me everything I needed. Even now after 8 years of programming in C#, I still found tons of new knowledge.
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