Expert .Net 1.1 Programming

By Simon Robinson

Softcover Repri

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590592220
• ISBN13: 9781590592229
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Apress L. P.
• Length: 680 Pages
• Weight: 2.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A great .NET reference

With .NET 2.0 so close, is it worth buying and reading a .NET 1.x book? The answer, in this case anyway, is definitely yes. .NET 2.0 builds on 1.x, making the majority of the material in this book relevant for years to come, and as most professional programmers will end up maintaining systems that, for one reason or another, can't be migrated to 2.0, having in-depth 1.x knowledge (which this book provides in bucket loads) is a great investment. Even for those that think they know everything about .NET, this book will still educate. I've been a .NET and C# MVP since 2002, and I still found this book a worthwhile read.

An Excellent Book for the .NET Expert

If you have read Richter and Lowey and are looking for the next evolution in your learning THIS IS THE BOOK. As the CEO of a .NET consultancy all staff are required to read three books. This is the final book. Right now the market is in a sad state. Only 1-2 in 100 can pass, as my company's interiew process (most do not know the difference in a value and reference type) is very, very hard This is one of those magic books that is easy to read and will make you 'team Leader materiakl'. Either lead, or 'get uut of t ey;. Damon Carr CEO agilefactor.com

Best coverage of IL I've seen

The first two chapters (about 100 pages) on IL are worth the price of the book. I'd recommend for those who really want to get a picture of what is going on under the hood in .NET. Some of the later chapters are a little lite like the one on cryptography and windows forms, however, the coverage on topics like assemblies is fantastic.

Deep coverage of advanced topics

This book covers a select set of topics at a very deep level. These include the CLI, garbage collection, threading, runtime code generation, instrumentation, cryptography and others. Some topics are covered in more depth than others, but they are all covered well. The writing is good. Illustrations are used effectively. This book is worth the look for any .NET developer. You should assess whether the specific topics that are covered are of interest to you.

Excellent material

I have a copy of the original version of this book under it's Wrox Title, Advanced .NET Programming. Simon has written one of the very few .NET books that I felt were not written for novices. Simon does not cover what a form is or what a web service is. The material covered includes intermediate code generation (he actually compares the IM generated by VB.NET/C#/C++.NET and which is more efficient), threading, garbage collection and it's impact on performance. If optimized code is important to you then you would be interested in reading this book.