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Jeffrey Richter's CLR via C#, 3rd Edition Coming Soon

By Doug Holland (Intel) (249 posts) on December 10, 2009 at 9:49 am

If you have either been following this blog for sometime or you have heard me speak at user groups or conferences you'll know that I believe every .NET developer, regardless of experience, should read Jeffrey Richter's book CLR via C#. You'll be able to read the new edition of the book, updated for the C# language version 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010, early next year and I would definitely recommend you order a copy today as I believe it will be one of the most anticipated developer books of 2010.

If, like me, you have already read the second edition you're maybe thinking "why read the new edition, I have already read the second edition?", you should remember that with the .NET Framework 4.0 comes a new CLR, task based parallelism types, as well as new language features within C# 4.0.

Jeff Richter's blog has an interesting post where he describes the differences between the second and third editions.

In March this year I wrote a blog post introducing developers to the new language features within the C# language specification 4.0, you can read that post here.

I have my copy ordered today...

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Comments (2)

December 30, 2009 8:14 AM PST dweeberlyloom Total Points: 7,855 Green Belt

Thanks for the link. This looks like a worthy update for anyone soon to working in c# 4.0. 704 pages, wow ... but no kindle addtion, clearly if you need this book you also need the exercise involved in moving around the dead tree version :-D I'm really looking forward to C# 4.0 (production), but I've noticed that lately everytime I read something new this strange gray gelatinous goo begins to leak from my ears, I wonder if it's important.

January 18, 2010 2:05 PM PST Doug Holland (Intel) Total Points: 14,135 Black Belt

Great comment and while I don't have a Kindle it would be nice to also have a PDF of the book, some publishers are securing the PDF's with passwords (apress for example), while others simply add your e-mail address to each page in the book (addison wesley). I personally prefer the Addison Wesley approach although I might have to take a closer look at the Kindle although I wish there was a model with a color LCD option. Some Silverlight books, for example, are now printed with the source code highlighted as it would be in an IDE such as Visual Studio. We'll soon be using the production release of C# 4.0 and then of course the debate on what should and should not be within C# 5.0 will begin. Regards, Doug

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