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.NET Gotchas 75 Ways to Improve Your C# and VB.NET Programs

By Venkat Subramaniam
First Edition May 2005
Pages: 392
ISBN 10: 0-596-00909-7 | ISBN 13: 9780596009090

Book description

The ultimate guide for pain-free coding, .NET Gotchas from O'Reilly contains 75 common .NET programming pitfalls--and advice on how to avoid them. Now you can steer away from application performance problems, or tainted code that just doesn't work right. It's the ideal resource for .NET developers yearning for a more productive, stress-free existence.
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Like most complex tasks, .NET programming is fraught with potential costly, and time-consuming hazards. The millions of Microsoft developers worldwide who create applications for the .NET platform can attest to that. Thankfully there's now a book that shows you how to avoid such costly and time-consuming mistakes. It's called .NET Gotchas. The ultimate guide for efficient, pain-free coding, .NET Gotchas from O'Reilly contains 75 common .NET programming pitfalls--and advice on how to work around them. It will help you steer away from those mistakes that cause application performance problems, or so taint code that it just doesn't work right. The book is organized into nine chapters, each focusing on those features and constructs of the .NET platform that consistently baffle developers. Within each chapter are several "gotchas," with detailed examples, discussions, and guidelines for avoiding them. No doubt about it, when applied, these concise presentations of best practices will help you lead a more productive, stress-free existence. What's more, because code examples are written in both VB.NET and C#, .NET Gotchas is of interest to more than 75 percent of the growing numbers of .NET programmers. So if you're a .NET developer who's mired in the trenches and yearning for a better way, this book is most definitely for you.

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".NET Gotchas is one of those books that points out the subtle details of the .NET framework that you may have missed when reading the product documentation. Not only are pitfalls and best practices exposed, but the author's treatment of the framework "gotchas" proves to be, at times, a pragmatic look at object oriented programming...I believe that having this reference on hand will save most developers a lot of grief and trips to the message boards for assistance."
-- Blair Kennedy, Amazon.com

"Are you among the many programmers who have come to appreciate how powerful Microsoft's .NET Framework can be as a platform for development? If you have, this book is for you! Author Venkat Subramaniam, has done an outstanding job of writing a great book that shares his .NET experiences with developers, to help them avoid the gotchas! ...the author has done an excellent job of writing a book that focuses on the .NET Framework and language features that have consistently exhibited behavior that is not obvious to the programmer."
-- John Vacca, "Tech Write Independent Reviewer", Amazon.com

"The book contains fascinating discussions on a myriad of topics…It is well worth reading especially if you have encountered the same gotchas and could not discover a way to solve them."
--Steven Mandel, .NET Developer's Journal, April 2006

"All in all, it's one of those books you won't just purchase and sit down and read for the heck of it. Rather, it's one of the books you purchase and yank off the shelf when you find yourself doing some .NET programming and find yourself scratching your head trying to avoid a pitfall."
--Robert L. Stinnett, Amazon.com review, June 2005

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