Practical .Net 2 and C# 2: Harness the Platform, the Language, the Framework

by Patrick Smacchia

The author placed itself from the point of view of the developer which must be quickly productive and anticipate changes without having to reinvent the wheel. More than half the book is dedicated to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0976613220
• ISBN13: 9780976613220
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Paradoxal Press
• Length: 992 Pages
• Weight: 3.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.8" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Absolutely the best .NET book I've read

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!

This book is wonderful

I was a programmer in Java, reading this book for self improvement, and I just loved learning about .NET. The content is nicely organized into sections, chapters and parts, which makes it helpful to focus on understanding key areas. I recommend it highly.

Highly recommended

Smacchia has done an awesome job. I have a few .NET books sitting on my shelf but none of them are as in-depth as this book. The word Practical in the title is not misleading: the book contains literally hundreds of complete C# examples. I've learn a lot about .NET 2.0 new `under-the-hood' features such as InternalsVisibleToAttribute, BufferedGraphics, Constrained Execution Regions or Stopwatch.

Good book for novice and expert.

When i was looking for a good book on .NET 2.0 a friend of mine suggest me this book and now i suggest it to you. In more than 800 pages this book cover almost every aspect of .NET 2.0 with a lot of examples, schemas and so on. A "plus" for this book is the class's comparision between the "old" .NET 1.1 and the "new" .NET 2.0, and this is very usefull even for professional developer that want to know the differences and the enhancements between the two framework. In simple words... BUY IT !!!

Excellant Introduction to Dot Net!!

There are three types of books which target Dot Net- 1. Books Which exclusively deal with Framework and the Base Classes. 2. Second are general purpose books which give very little detail on Framework but give more weight to implementation. 3. Special purpose books which deal with Custom Control Development or ADO.net etc. This book has close to 75% of its focus on type1 and 25% on type2. Part1 gives a heavy weight introduction to the framework and PArt2 about c# and OOPS. Part3 has excellant chapters about Base Classes, Transactions and collections. I would have even preferred if PAtrick had skipped other chapter in Part 3 except for the chapters mentioned. But Part1 and Part2 is just worth the price of the book. This is an one stop shop for experienced Java and c++ programmers who are trying to know Dot Net and want to have some basic understanding on how to implement them. Existing Dot Net Programmer who has very little knowledge fundamentals of the platform or c# can also be helped by this book. Kudos to Patrick when there are many cookie cutter books he has come out with a book with deals with indepth knowledge and fundamentals of Dot Net.