Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform, Fourth Edition (Windows.Net) by Andrew Troelsen Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform, Fourth Edition (Windows.Net)
Book Review: Excelent choice
Summary: 5 Stars
This book meets it's objective. The author avoids complexities by using a very readable and pleasant language, and he can do so because the book is organized in a very convenient way.
I recomend this book totally.
Book Review: Great 'Everything' Reference
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are looking for a good general reference for C# 2008, look no further. This book does an excellent job of dealing a bit with every topic, so if you just need a refresher, or a good starting point, it will point you in the right direction. It is not designed to cover 100% of everything, and the author is very clear about that. What it does provide is a practical desk reference for everything C#. The author provides contextual scenarios and examples to help in understanding new topics, but does a good job of not simply repeating what is already available on MSDN. Well worth the $!Book Review: Good, but maybe a little too "low-level"
Summary: 3 Stars
I'm half-way though this book and although on a page by page basis it comes across very well, it dose seem to be one of those books that is a bit tiring to read. For example, he uses ildasm.exe to view the underlying CIL way too often for my tastes. There are times where it is helpful to understand how things work under the hood, but this book may have overdone it. It seemed to take a long time to get though some sections, which left me to wonder how helpful this book will be to me in applying the new features that I was hoping to become familiar with.Book Review: No Good Programmmer is without this book
Summary: 5 Stars
Andrew hits the mark again. This is the 3rd version of this book I own. Everyone of them does an excellent job of covering all the new features in the latest release.
I skipped the .NET 3.0 version because there weren't many new features added to the C# language itself. I am glad I got this book for this 3.5 release because there are a ton of new features. This book covers all of them in detail.
If you have never bought one of Andrews books, and you a serious about programming C#, you simply have too. He relates the language features to the pillars of OOP (inheritance, encapsulation, and polymorphism) in great detail. Understanding these pillars is a definite prerequisite to moving into and understanding design patterns.
One of the other things I like about this book is the material on programming with .NET assemblies. The key to good architecture is developing with components. This material teaches you everything you need to know about .NET assemblies which you need to know in order to develop with .NET components.
This is a must have for every C# developer. If you have not read this book, you are definitely not taking advantage of all the C# / .NET 3.5 language features in the language.
Book Review: 1370 pages isn't too much
Summary: 5 Stars
Well, I used the eBook edition, which has 1402 pages. Plus there's the bonus material you can get, taken the book to much longer. And still there are times when you want it to go just a little deeper into some topics.
But what a great book!
It reads well, so there's no problem going from cover to cover. But as well as that, it's nicely arranged into sensible chapters, so you can come back to it as a reference as well.
Of course it doesn't go very deep into many areas. It's not a book about WCF, but gives a good overview and foundation of it. The same applies for those other .Net 3.5 areas. But this is a book mainly about C#, and it would be three times the length if it tried to comprehensively cover all the rest.
Andrew Troelsen has done a really good job with this book - it's going to be one that I leave (electronically) on my laptop so I can get to it quickly.