The Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming in C# Collection

by Jeffrey Richter

Apply your expertise to the .NET Framework with the guidance of programming expert Jeffrey Richter—on video, through his award-winning book, and with a set of posters containing complete, at-a-glance reference to .NET Framework Class Library namespace details. Richter is well-known to the developer community as an author, an instructor, and a contributing editor for MSDN® Magazine. He has been consulting with the .NET Framework team at Microsoft since 1999, and is the cofounder of Wintellect, a premier training, debugging, and consulting firm. This must-have collection includes Richter’s highly respected Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming book, which describes .NET Framework architecture, the common language runtime, and core types in the .NET Framework Class Library—deftly presenting the concepts, insights, and examples needed to begin developing robust, .NET Framework–based applications. You can experience Richter in action through his video lecture on Exception Handling, which covers implicit assumptions about Exceptions, key benefits of exception handling, and tips for managing unhandled exceptions with Windows® Forms, Web Forms, and XML Web services. You also get the .NET Framework 1.1 Class Library poster pack—four, full-color wall posters that clearly display the namespace details essential to every developer working with the .NET Framework—including System, System.Web, System.XML, System.Data, System.Windows.Forms, and System.Drawing. Each poster provides an easy-to-scan class derivation hierarchy of the most useful types, a comprehensive list of value types, an interface cross-reference map, and more. Together, this collection delivers the hands-on resources you need to advance your expertise—and your productivity—with the .NET Framework.

Genres: Software, Programming, Reference, Technical, Nonfiction

632 pages, Paperback

First published January 22, 2002

Reviews

[Alexander · Rating 5 out of 5]

Это была моя первая книга по .NET Framework. В то время было непреодолимое желание узнать о новой технологии и эта книга восполнила его сполна. Наверное, это был самый правильный выбор первой книги, поскольку она учила в первую очередь не языку программирования, который я освоил позднее, а самой технологии .NET. В книге даются основы, необходимые для понимания того, что происходит за кулисами исполнения программы, описываются все нюансы и разъясняется, почему используется именно выбранный подход. Это потрясающая книга и обязательная к прочтению каждым разработчиком на .NET (возможно уже в новой редакции).

[Stefan · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's testament to .net framework design (or Microsoft laziness ;-) that over a dozen+ years so little changed and Jeffrey's book is still mostly relevant. The title might be a bit misleading, as it covers mostly guts of the framework and underlying mechanisms (from C# perspective). of course, what you really wanted is to read latest edition of the 'CLR via C#', so if you don't need to, don't waste time reading it ;-)

[Ondrej Sykora · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book provided a solid introduction to the .NET Framework as a platoform. It doesn't focus on any particular language, but it explains the basic principles of the framework such as application architecture, the runtime library, reflection, deployment, ...

The only problem with this book is its age and the fact that by now it is outdated. However, if you're starting with .NET, it might still be worth checking out.

I've read the Czech version and it was actually translated quite well.