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Tue, May 21 2013 0:14

Book Review: Async in C# 5.0

Resources: Amazon , Barnes and Noble , Play Books The book's web site (O'Reilly) – downloads, errata etc A while ago I was attending one of the Developer, Developer, Developer conference in Reading, and I heard Alex Davies give a talk about actors...
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Sat, Sep 25 2010 8:09

Book Review: Effective C# (2nd edition) by Bill Wagner

Resources: Amazon , Barnes and Noble Bill Wagner's blog Disclaimer Just in case you're unaware, I'm the author of another C# book, C# in Depth . Although Effective C# is somewhat different to my book, they certainly share a target audience...
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Sun, Sep 28 2008 1:59

Book Review: Programming C# 3.0 by Jesse Liberty and Donald Xie

Resources The O'Reilly page (errata etc) Jesse Liberty's page for his various books Buy it from Amazon or Barnes and Noble Disclaimer One reader commented that a previous book review was too full of "this is only my personal opinion"...
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Fri, Aug 1 2008 23:05

Book review: Accelerated C# 2008 by Trey Nash

Time for another book review, and this time it's a due to a recommendation from a reader who has this one, C# in Depth and Head First C#. Resources Amazon Barnes and Noble Publisher's page (Apress) Introduction and disclaimer My normal book review...
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Fri, Jul 18 2008 20:50

Judging a book by its cover (or title)

I've ranted about versioning before (and indeed in C# in Depth). I still believe that Microsoft didn't do the world any favours when they introduced a relatively minor set of changes (just libraries, albeit important ones) with .NET 3.0 and a...
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Tue, Jul 8 2008 18:07

The trouble with book reviews

I'm currently reading two .NET books: Accelerated C# 2008 (Trey Nash) and Concurrent Programming on Windows (Joe Duffy). I will, in due course, post reviews here. However, the very act of thinking about the reviews has made me consider the inevitable...
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Fri, Jun 6 2008 17:22

Guest post: Joe Albahari reviews C# in Depth

Joe Albahari, co-author of the excellent C# 3.0 in a Nutshell (previously reviewed here ) kindly agreed to review C# in Depth. Not only has he provided the review below, but he also supplied several pages of notes made while he was reading it. Many of...
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Wed, Apr 23 2008 19:47

Programming "in" a language vs programming "into" a language

I'm currently reading Steve McConnell's Code Complete (for the first time - yes, I know that's somewhat worrying) and there was one section was disturbed me a little. For those of you with a copy to hand, it's in section 4.3, discussing...
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Mon, Mar 31 2008 16:16

Book review: C# 3.0 in a Nutshell

Resources: Book's web site (includes various tools such as LINQPad) Amazon Errata Introduction The original C# in a Nutshell was the book I cut my C# teeth on, so to speak. Basically I read it (well, the bits which weren't just reproductions of...
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Fri, Mar 21 2008 9:30

Book review: Head First C#

Important "versioning" note This review tackles the first printing, from November 2007. Since then, the book has undergone more printings, with errata being fixed in each printing. I believe most or possibly all of the errors listed below are...
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Mon, Mar 17 2008 1:40

Book review/preview: "C# Query Expressions And Supporting Features in C# 3.0" (Eckel/King)

Introduction Let me make one thing very clear before anything else: this is a preview . Bruce Eckel has made the preview of what appears to be part of a bigger book available free from his website. The book is by Bruce Eckel and Jamie King, and the preview...
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