My Review of CLR via C#, 3rd Edition

Feb 18, 2012 in REVIEWS
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    CLR via C#, 3rd Edition
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  <a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780735627048" style="display: none;" class="url fn"><span class="fn">CLR via C#, 3rd Edition</span></a></div> 
  
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    <strong class="summary">One of the best C# books available.</strong>
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    By <strong>Jim Schubert</strong> from <strong>Richmond, VA</strong> on <strong><abbr title="2012218T1200-0800" class="dtreviewed" style="border: none; text-decoration: none;">2/18/2012</abbr></strong>
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    <span class="rating">5</span>out of 5
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    <strong>Pros: </strong>Helpful examples, Accurate, Concise, Easy to understand, Well-written
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    <strong>Best Uses: </strong>Expert, Intermediate, Student
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    <strong>Describe Yourself: </strong>Software Engineer
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    It has been a while since I read this book. I never reviewed it because I didn&#8217;t realize Microsoft Press was sold on the O&#8217;Reilly site.<br xmlns:pr="xalan://com.pufferfish.core.beans.xmlbuilders.xsl.Functions" /><br />I can not tell you how many times I have been asked an interview question which I answered quickly and concisely thanks to this book. It covers a lot of material. When I say &#8220;a lot&#8221;, I don&#8217;t mean the average amount of material in a book this length, I mean the average amount of material in a book that is three times the size of this book. Seriously, it goes over some topics that other books don&#8217;t touch on: like why strings are interned the way they are, string comparison optimizations, globalization gotchas, assembly structure, and a lot more.
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    I recommended this book to a friend a few days ago. I would gladly recommend it to anyone who is a professional .NET developer or a student using .NET technologies. It thoroughly discusses the how, why, and when the CLR performs the way it does.
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    A note for beginners: I think this book is geared more toward intermediate-to-advanced developers. If you find some of the content too difficult, skim it and come back to it later. You won&#8217;t be let down.
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