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Ivan Petrov
Ivan Petrov

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Ultimate .NET Reference Texts

Stackoverflow and ChatGPT are all good, but sometimes you just need to consult written long form texts where the author has spent months if not years trying to articulate and demonstrate difficult concepts.

For that reason I've assembled a list of titles that serve me very well when trying to truly understand deeper concepts in .NET.

The books/texts I've found the most useful for .NET in general and C# in particular are:

  • Jeffrey Richter (2012). CLR via C# (Fourth Edition)
  • Serge Lidin (2014). .NET IL Assembler
  • Don Box and Chris Sells (2002). Essential .NET, Volume I The Common Language Runtime
  • Konrad Kokosa (2018). Pro .NET Memory Management
  • ECMA 335 Standard
  • ECMA 334 Standard

Love to hear of other books that were useful as reference literature.

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