CLR via C#, Third Edition

I am a person who loves to read technical books. I like to study more on compiler concepts, Jeffrey Richter CLR via C# second edition is an excellent book to study the concepts of internal of compiler C# .Now CLR via C# third edition is available,Order It.

Coding Heroes - Present

Few days back i saw a book “Coders at Work” ,which says about the grate programmers in current century.I am listing all there names only.

1. Jamie Zawinski

2. Brad Fitzpatrick

3. Douglas Crockford

4. Brendan Eich

5. Joshua Bloch

6. Joe Armstrong

7. Simon Peyton Jones

8. Peter Norvig

9. Guy Steele

10. Dan Ingalls

11. L Peter Deutsch

12. Ken Thompson

13. Fran Allen

14. Bernie Cosell

15. Donald Knuth

Applied Microsoft NET_Framework_Programming by Jeffrey Richter

I am really interested in compiler.So i checked with different book which one is good.At last i got a good one "Applied Microsoft NET_Framework_Programming"

The following are the main topics in the book Applied Microsoft NET_Framework_Programming.

Part I: Basics of the Microsoft .NET Framework
Chapter 1 : The Architecture of the .NET Framework Development Platform

Overview of .NET Frame work is architected.CLR,CLS ,and a good understanding of ILDASM(intermediate laguage de assembler tool)

Chapter 2: Building, Packaging, Deploying, and Administering Applications and Types
This chapter gives a good understanding of how the assembly is build and how the version number is given and also gives a better understanding of Culture.

Chapter 3: Shared Assemblies
This chapter gives a better understanding of week and strong assembly.Why the public key is used etc . The main point in this chapter is GAC,what is the main function of GAC

Part II: Working with Types and the Common Language Runtime

Chapter 4: Type Fundamentals
This chapter gives a good understanding of Type safe and type casting
Chapter 5: Primitive, Reference, and Value Types
Primitive Type -Any dataType compiler directly and a good understanding of value type and Reference type

Chapter 6: Common Object Operations
How to compare objects ,object cloning etc

Part III: Designing Types
Chapter 7: Type Members and Their Accessibility
This chapter gives a better understanding of type member and different predefined attribute .

Chapter 8: Constants and Fields
This chapter say what happends in metadata when declare a constant and fields.

Chapter 9: Methods

This chapter gives me a better understanding of constructor,type constructor ,Operator overloading,ref and out ,virtual method

Chapter 10: Properties

This explains properties and indexers

Chapter 11: Events

This explains me How the delegate is Doing its action in events

Part IV: Essential Types

Chapter 12: Working with Text

This explains why the string is immutable ,says how the string is doing its operation with culture

Chapter 13: Enumerated Types and Bit Flags

This chapter goes through the idea of Enum in metadata

Chapter 14: Arrays

The array ,and says array is a reference type and various other methodologies in array

Chapter 15: Interfaces

This chapter goes through the idea of inferface in CLR . Gives me a better idea on the interface.

Chapter 16: Custom Attributes

This gives a better undersatanding of arrtibutes ,how to define user created custom attribute

Chapter 17: Delegates

The Microsoft .NET Framework exposes a callback function mechanism using delegates.

and lot of other various thing of delegates

Part V: Managing Types

Chapter 18: Exceptions

This chapter gives a better understanding of Exceptions.how to write user created exceptions

Chapter 19: Automatic Memory Management (Garbage Collection)

This chapter says how the GC is working.

Chapter 20: CLR Hosting, AppDomains, and Reflection

This chapter says how the CLR is hosting in Windows,what is the use of application domain etc

About author Jeffrey Richter