C# 5.0 Unleashed 1st Edition

I wanted to learn Delegate,Events,Lambda expressionsSo I picked the Jon Skeet's C# In Depth book, started reading, got confused in the middle of the topic...Then switched to Albahari's C# book, read the same topic, didn't get confused but when I was looking at practical examples at work still I couldn't apply what I had learned, ..then got this book and started reading the same topic,..everything started making sense now :)For example almost any C# text you want to read about delegates it says it is like Function Pointers in C language...but none of them explain what is a function pointer to begin with! This book does.Now I am reading this book and after reading each topic and understanding it from this book, you can move back to Jon Skeet's book to know the ins and out and super details about everything in that topic..but if you start with that book you will be confused in the middle of the way...

The book is comprehensive- 1600+ pages. Whoever said "read from cover to cover" must have been reviewing the wrong book. While the book is well-written, concise, and provides an excellent history of the evolution of C#- it's more for an enthusiast programmer or computer science major, rather than someone initially learning the language.Having a basic understanding of HTML and CSS, I have yet to get to the "meat" of the book, and am already 80+ pages in. Seems like it would be a good reference book for an expert programmer, or an extremely patient reader looking to commit his/her life to coding. I skimmed through other parts, and didn't really find "step-by-step" exercises as promised early on. I still find myself resorting to codeacademy.com to get my "hands dirty".I'll keep reading, and if anything changes all of a sudden, I'll be sure to update this review.

I bought this to learn about new features like async await , more details about generics and so on . But reading chapter one only i learned things i knew for the first time like the internals of the JIT . I think the author did not write just another c# traditional book , the author was serious about this book and he put a lot of effort in it . Weather you learn c# for the first time or you are a c# programmer who wants to learn more i think you can benefit from this book .

Great book that covers multi-threading (a lot of C# books just don't). Four stars because the index is a bit sparse and there is no coverage of how to call native code or write "unsafe" (which should have been called "unmanaged") C# code. But that leaves space for excellent treatment of the rest of the language. Obviously, with C# 7 out, this book is out of date. But, for a new C# programmer (particularly one coming from Java, like me), the low prices available on the used market make this attractive.

I feel like the book just keeps going around the topics, talking about history then some small examples and try to mention all small related topics . However, it does not quiet explain stuffs very well, I think some people on youtube can explain the topics better. This is a rare reasonable priced (under $50) programming book, that will work well as a general menu for topics in C#. But you may not learn much from reading the book itself.

The book is great. The content is great. The author is great. My only issue is with the publisher and the decision NOT to make this Kindle version compatible with Kindle-PC for windows 7. Its a bit irritating, knowing that out of my vast Kindle technical books this is the ONLY one that won't work with Amazon's free Kindle-PC for windows 7.Too bad....I really, really want to read this book.

This book has a ton of information in it and is definitely worth a read by any C# developer. Although I feel at times it is a little lengthy in explanation this is a direct result of the target audience for this book. This book is meant to teach you almost everything that the compiler and C# are doing together. I don't like that the book has several 'scope beyond this book' topics, however I agree that the subject material that was being discussed was a huge topic that entire books are written on. Definitely recommended reading for anyone who is trying to learn the ins and outs of C#

Even as someone who is new to programming this books is excellent. It serves as a fantastic book for learning the language, and as an incredible reference book. I do feel the need to mention that there are better books to teach you programming (or this language) though I don't believe you will be able to find a better manual/reference book for the C# language.