Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #360408 in Books
• Published on: 2003-05-21
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 640 pages

From Amazon.com
Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming is a tutorial. It's meant for programmers who already know an object-oriented language and want to apply their knowledge in the standardized environment provided by the Microsoft .NET Framework. The book, written by Jeffrey Richter, a programmer and the .NET columnist at Microsoft's magazine for its developer community, takes a more or less language-agnostic approach to the run-time environment (though many illustrative examples are in C#). It aims to untangle the Common Language Runtime (CLR) and some of the Framework Class Library (FCL), and generally succeeds, particularly at the former. Richter shares his knowledge of the key classes you can instantiate in the CLR, and the kinds of operations you can perform on and with them.

You can read this book, or individual chapters, from beginning to end. You'll probably find it more helpful, though, if you read individual sections as you encounter problems or develop an interest in specific aspects of the CLR (ideal for those middle-of-the-night "I wonder how it does..." questions). Richter typically lets his code do most of the talking, and he'll often introduce a section with a prose summary of the CLR way of doing something (sometimes with a supplementary diagram) before unleashing a string of quick examples that illustrate variations on the theme. In an unusual and helpful tutorial move, he makes heavy use of the ILDASM utility to show what goes on at compile time. --David Wall

Topics covered: How the Microsoft .NET Framework--in other words, the Common Language Runtime (CLR) and parts of the Framework Class Library (FCL)--runs Microsoft .NET applications, and how to write software for the framework. Shared assemblies, characteristics of CLR types (including their properties, methods, fields, and events), and object orientation all get ample coverage. There's particularly detailed information on text manipulation (including internationalization and localization), arrays, custom interfaces, and the managed environment (garbage collection) in the CLR environment.

From the Publisher
Create high-performance applications quickly and efficiently armed with this book’s in-depth coverage of the Microsoft .NET Framework.

About the Author
Jeffrey Richter is a co-founder of Wintellect, a training, debugging, and consulting firm dedicated to helping companies build better software, faster. He is the author of "Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming" (Microsoft Press) and several Windows programming books. Jeffrey is also a contributing editor to MSDN Magazine where he authors the .NET column. Jeff has been consulting with Microsoft's .NET Framework team since October 1999.

Customer Reviews

Perfection
You have to love this book. Simply a must read for any .NET software developer. It does a fairly good job of staying language neutral, but you will get the most out of the book if you are comfortable with C#.

No other book I have read comes close to explaining the CLR in such a graspable way. There are six or seven different sections of the book I find myself pointing colleagues to everyday. One of the most overlooked, misunderstood and necessary topics has to be boxing and unboxing. This is explained extraordinarily well. I still find myself reading this section over, pleading with my brain to commit some of the trickery of the compiler to memory. Another favorite section is Chapter 11 - Events. Nobody could possibly read this chapter and not feel completely comfortable with designing a type that exposes an event. And then, the cherry on top, he walks you through explicitly controlling event registration... WOW! Great stuff.

This book is packed with all the core concepts you need to know to be a successful programmer. The longer you go without it, the more of injustice you do to yourselves and your clients.

A classic book in the field of Microsoft.NET
This is one of the few classics, programmers should get and learn from it. The easy reading(keeps refreshing the reader on earlier concepts) style makes learning enjoyable and exciting.

Even after finishing the book, I still can't help but wonder why System.Threading wasn't covered. Maybe Jeffery should include this topic in his next edition of the book.

After finishing the book, the reader should find the concepts covered in other areas of .net easy to handle and understand. After all that's the objective of the book.

Five stars from me.

MUST READ for .NET GURUs
Jeff really shows off his experience with consulting for and working with the .NET framework team in this book. This is one of the very best .NET books and will remain as such for the lifetime of the technology. It covers the internals of .NET, critical to a solid foundation of knowledge for a technical leader in .NET. As such, it's not a "getting started guide". There are dozens of those on the market, but few "must haves" like this one.