CLR via C#, Second Edition (Developer Reference) 2nd Edition

by Jeffrey Richter (Author)

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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.

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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

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The author shares insights direct from the Microsoft .NET development team, his own real-world expertise, and hands-on code examples to illustrate how to most effectively use the CLR and the .NET Framework 2.0 for smart client, Web, and mobile applications

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• Delivers a thorough grounding in .NET Framework architecture, the runtime environment, and other key topics

• Provides extensive code examples in Visual C#

• Features authoritative, pragmatic guidance on difficult development concepts such as generics and threading

About the Author

Jeffrey Richter is a cofounder of Wintellect (www.wintellect.com)-a training, debugging, and consulting firm dedicated to helping companies build better software faster. He is the author of the previous editions of this book, Windows via C/C++, and several other Windows-related programming books. Jeffrey has been consulting with the Microsoft .NET Framework team since October 1999.

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Series: Developer Reference
Paperback: 736 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press; 2 edition (March 22, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735621632
ISBN-13: 978-0735621633
Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 1.8 x 9 inches
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If Microsoft .NET Was a Board Game, This Would be the Start Square

ByDavid Douglasson April 17, 2006

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At the heart of Microsoft .NET is the CLR. .NET development is primarily about directing the CLR. But how can you do that if you don't really know what the CLR is or what it can do?

Most .NET programming books are language centric. The capabilities of the CLR are implied based on the description of the language. Jeffery Richter's book is CLR centric. It describes what the CLR can do and how it does it. C# is used to provide practical examples of how to direct the CLR.

The book clearly and efficiently presents vital information that you'd spends days trying to discover by either pouring over MSDN or writing test applications. Highlights include:

* how source code is converted to IL, stored, managed, and executed

* a description of the code metadata available at run time and how it is used

* how data is classified, organized, and managed

* a description of the members that make up a class (fields, methods, etc.)

* how to handle exceptions

* how garbage collection works

* how reflection works

* how to write multi-threaded applications

Throughout the book there are many warnings about pitfalls and gotchas. The execution efficiency of different approaches is explained for many situations.

I urge any .NET developer who doesn't really understand the CLR to read this book.

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A must-read

ByPatrick Smacchiaon April 3, 2006

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If you're this kind of .NET developer who understood that the more you know about the CLR the better your code will be, this book is a MUST-READ. You'll find information available nowhere else at almost every page.

I really enjoyed the numerous digressions about reasons why MS engineers designed the CLR and the Framework the way it is. For example you'll find answers to tricky questions such as:

Why the C# compiler uses a callvirt IL instruction (and not a call IL instruction) when calling a non-virtual instance method?

What are the rare cases when you should consider using the Explicit Interface Method Implementation? (EIMI)

How the underlying processor architecture and volatile memory access are related in the CLR sphere?

How .NET framework classes with many events such as System.Windows.Forms.Control are designed to save memory at runtime?

And many many many more.

I also liked the fact that J.Richter is one of the very few who has enough knowledge on the subject to criticize some design choices made by MS. Often some alternatives for future .NET releases are proposed.

Clearly, if you are a beginner this is not the first .NET book you should read. But if your goal is to become a.NET expert, then know that you'll end up by reading this book.

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Good book with caveats

ByG. Askewon September 9, 2007

Format: Paperback

This is a good book, considering it is primarily a reference/internals book. Those are notoriously hard to write and also be easily consumed. A bit dry at times, but for the most part is readable. The book also has minimal errors and is logically structured.

A couple of observations:

1. An experienced developer will benefit more from the content that someone with less experience or someone that is new to .NET. This book covers a lot of fundamentals, but you will learn more if you have time writing code in C#/.NET 2.0.

2. The factual content is quite useful, and most other books don't even come close to this. In addition to the facts, Jeff injects some of his opinion. An experienced developer will recognize these segments as opinion and reconcile that with the realities of their own work environment.

For example, Jeff prefers using the formal CLR syntax for primitive types over the C# shorthand (e.g., "Int32" instead of "int"). This of course is a matter of preference, and will most likely be determined by the coding styles and practices at your workplace.

Jeff also does not like Properties, and wishes that Microsoft had not included them as part of the framework. Again, an experienced developer will probably not read this and immediately stop using properties. It is not inconceivable however, that an inexperienced developer may read it and develop a bias against properties, something that may not be advisable.

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A Readable Reference Book

ByJohn S. Lyon Smithon December 8, 2006

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As most software developers know books like these are seldom an end-to-end read. They are usually kept on a shelf and pulled out when the need arises. That's why I was surprised to find myself continuing to turn page after page of Jeff's book. As usual, his writing style is concise, but has just the right amount of humor injected to keep it readable. What's more, his books tend to remain relevant long after they have gone out of print. I still pull out Advanced Windows NT Programming on a regular basis to reference. CLR via C# is chock full of the juiciests bits of .NET & C# 2.0. You'll learn tons, and be able to impress your programming buddies over lunch with your in depth knowledge of nullable types, generics and thread locking mechanisms.

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This is a must read for .net framework user

I read Jeffrey's past books about window programming. They were excellent jobs for explaining kernel object stuffs. This book is also an excellent stuff regarding C# and CLR.Read more

Published on July 15, 2012 by Yeoun Jae Kim

Obsolete, but must to learn

The book describes .NET2.0 internals very well. I believe this is very good to learn some basic stuff, like GC, regardless of .NET version. Hope to see the same book for .NET4.

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Truly unique book. Must read for any .NET developer.

If you are a .NET developer and haven't read this book, STOP EVERYTHING GO READ IT.

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