Ask HN: Any good .NET books?

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by francoisdevlin • 16 years ago

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I'm looking for resources to learn C# & the .NET platform. I've got a lot of experience with Java, Ruby & Clojure. I'm interested in anything from "C# in 21 days" to works about how to write a CLR language compiler. What books and other stuff can HN recommend?

humblegeek• 16 years ago

Try: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/531329/best-c-book-for-an...

Personal Recommendation (after learning the language) http://www.amazon.com/CLR-Via-C-Pro-Developer/dp/0735621632

andrewhare• 16 years ago

I would check out these books: C# in a Nutshell (http://www.amazon.com/C-4-0-Nutshell-Definitive-Reference/dp...) CLR via C# (http://www.amazon.com/CLR-via-Dev-Pro-Jeffrey-Richter/dp/073...) C# in Depth (http://www.amazon.com/Depth-What-you-need-master/dp/19339883...)

blangblang• 16 years ago

I'll gladly second Jon Skeet's 'C# in Depth'. The second edition is currently available through MEAP @ http://www.manning.com/skeet2/, with the print edition coming in September.

dnunes• 16 years ago

Definitely Don Box's Essential .NET (http://www.amazon.com/Essential-NET-Common-Language-Runtime/...). For the concurrency aspect I recommend Joe Duffy's Concurrent Programming on Windows (http://www.amazon.com/Concurrent-Programming-Windows-Joe-Duf...).

anelson• 16 years ago

Consider this another vote for Richter's "CLR Via C#" http://www.amazon.com/CLR-via-Dev-Pro-Jeffrey-Richter/dp/073...

Get the latest edition, covering .NET 4. The chapters on concurrency and I/O alone are worth the price of admission.

jeroen• 16 years ago

Scott Guthrie's weblog: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/

__Joker• 16 years ago

I will say Scott Guthrie is more focussed towards the ASP.NET. But his blogs are really good.

bosch• 16 years ago

First I'd recomend learning about Visual Studio as if you don't know about the IDE it can slow and even impede your programming. Wrox's Professional Visual Studio 2010: http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Visual-Studio-2010-Progra...

Second, I'd say that for a general book that's informative and not too hard to learn use Wrox's Professional C# 4 and .Net 4. I prefer Wrox books as they are usually the same format book to book and most have you complete a project to practice what you're learning: http://www.amazon.com/Professional-4-0-NET-Wrox-Programmer/d...

Depending on what you're using for your data store I'd also suggest reading up on ADO.NET 4 but I don't have any experience with books on that topic so perhaps someone can suggest some.

i386• 16 years ago

I recommend the "Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries" book.

http://www.amazon.com/Framework-Design-Guidelines-Convention...

rufius• 16 years ago

Best one for really understanding the CLR and .NET is Jeff Richter's "CLR via C#".

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