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Title: The Common Language Infrastructure Annotated Standard by James S. Miller, Susann Ragsdale, Jim Miller ISBN: 0-321-15493-2 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 24 October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Reference Guide
Comment: Well, you know it's a winner b/c it's in Addison Wesley's Microsoft .Net Development series. Like their Hejlsberg title, this is pure reference. However, there's a lot to it (almost 900 pages in total) and EVERYTHING in the CLS is covered here. It's very technical, and definitely not a cover to cover read, but there are many good examples and if you need a quick reference for any topic in the Framework, this book is a must have.
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting Commingling of Languages
Comment: When Microsoft released its .NET platform, it attempted, and is attempting, something quite audacious. It is putting forth a programming environment whereby you could combine modules written in different languages, without recompiling, let alone rewriting.
Arguably, Microsoft set itself a harder task than did Sun with java. Along this road, as the book describes, a standard arose - the Common Language Infrastructure. It describes a Virtual Execution System and what type of executable code can use it. So a version of Pascal, say, that wanted to run on a VES would need to pass the compilation rules of a Pascal compiler that adhered to CLI.
An analogy might help. In some rough way, you might consider CLI + VES to be like a java virtual machine, and the choice of a language to use atop CLI to be like running java under its jvm. Granted, this is crude, but many readers are probably unfamiliar with CLI, whilst having more acquaintance with java.
Warning. The book may be heavy sledding for most. The main audience is compiler writers and language developers. Daresay that even experienced developers may not usually deal with a language at this level.
A slight irony is that CLI is meant to decouple programmers from any specific platform, which is why Microsoft pushed it over to a standards body. But the most developed instantiation currently appears to be .NET, which is inextricably interwoved with Microsoft's operating systems.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wow! The authorative coverage of the CLI (.NET) standard
Comment: .NET, unlike Java, is an implementation of an ECMA and a ISO standard.
This book, from the Microsoft employees that created .NET and with input from members of the standards bodies, annotates the standard with comments that provide insights into the reasoning behind the standard. If you are in one of these categories, you should seriously consider buying this book:
1. advanced .NET developers
2. language designers
3. tool designers
4. those interested in understanding virtual machines
5. developers of libraries
6. Java developer (wondering what a standard looks like, just kidding. As an intermediate-advanced Java developer, the book is very interesting though.)
7. developer who wants insight into current software architecture
Otherwise, the book is still a useful guide to help you grow as a developer if you even browse it sporadically, and unlike many programming books, it will not be obsolete in a year.
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Title: The C# Programming Language by Anders Hejlsberg, Scott Wiltamuth, Peter Golde ISBN: 0321154916 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 24 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 1: Base Class Library and Extended Numerics Library, 1/e by Brad Abrams ISBN: 0321154894 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 12 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $64.99 |
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Title: Windows Forms Programming in C# by Chris Sells ISBN: 0321116208 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 29 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Shared Source CLI Essentials by Ted Neward, David Stutz, Geoff Shilling ISBN: 059600351X Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Applied .NET Attributes : by Tom Barnaby, Jason Bock ISBN: 1590591364 Publisher: APress Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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