Month: August 2009

The "dream book" for C# and .NET

By jonskeet

This morning I showed my hand a little on Twitter. I’ve had a dream for a long time about the ultimate C# book. It’s a dream based on Effective Java, which is my favourite Java book, along with my experiences of writing C# in Depth. Effective Java is written by Josh Bloch, who is an absolute giant in the Java world… and that’s both the problem and the opportunity. There’s no-one of quite the equivalent stature in the .NET world. Instead, there are many very smart people, a lot of whom blog and some of whom have their own books. … Continue reading The "dream book" for C# and .NET

Tricky decisions… Code Contracts and Parallel Extensions in C# in Depth 2nd edition

By jonskeet

I’d like some feedback from readers, and I suspect my blog is the simplest way to get it. I’m currently writing chapter 15 of C# in Depth, tentatively about Code Contracts and Parallel Extensions. The problem is that I’m 15 pages in, and I haven’t finished Code Contracts yet. I suspect that with a typesetter moving the listings around a little it can be shortened a little bit, but I’m still concerned. With the amount I’ve still got to write, Code Contracts is going to end up at 20 pages and I expect Parallel Extensions may be 25. That makes … Continue reading Tricky decisions… Code Contracts and Parallel Extensions in C# in Depth 2nd edition