The C# Programming Language (3rd Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series)

Author: Anders Hejlsberg
Published: 2008-10-18

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An Advanced C#
This is a "Collector's Edition" of the C# specification, that I believe is freely available on the Internet. The value in this book is that it is very nicely bounded and perfect for a software engineer's library. Also, the annotations provided by Anders Hejlsberg, et. al. are illuminating and thought provoking. While you could just print this out on your printer, I think this book is valuable for saving you time and being more durable.

The spec is also very well written and understandable to experienced C# developers. If you want to be an expert on C#, I think this book will put you in a very good position to do so.

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An excellent technical reference
This book is an excellent technical reference for C# 1.0 written by the language lead architect himself. It also presents some new C# 2.0 features. Be careful! This is definitely not the language tutorial for beginners.

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C# Programming Language, The (2nd Edition)
It is a superior book... only for those that know C#, because the book is very technical. First chapters cover C# as BNF notation, and next continue explaining more in depth the first ones.

But really it is the definitive book to consult and learn C#, it is like Stroustrup’s for C++. It covers minimal stuff about .NET and centers only in C# and explains ALL, but in a syncretic manner.

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Older, and not free
Chapter 1 of this book is a short and nice introduction to C# for programming language experts. However, the following chapters are not easy to understand even for experts. You can download a newer version of "C# Language Specification" (a standard from ECMA but whose content is mostly the same as this book) free. Do you still want to buy this book?

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Useless for most programmers
The book covers the C# language in a rather abstract formal way, with great detail. I was very dissappointed because it lacks examples and it does not provide any reference to the .NET framework. Into my opinion C# is a useless language to wrtie applications without a proper framework.

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