Synaptic Misfirings

Jon Skeet's sublime "C# in Depth" was the best C# book out there, bar none. I'm super happy to see Jon's updating the book for C# 4 and I can wait to read his insights in C# 4's latest static type, 'dynamic' :-)

 

   http://www.manning.com/skeet2/

 

It'll also be interesting to see what updates Jon applies to the C# 3 coverage, now that we've all been partying with it for a while. Just ordered my early access program copy to get my paws on the uncorrected chapters as they become available.

As someone who took at stab at implementing our own managed Tuple implementation it was interesting to read the musings of the pro's who've just implemented the 'official' version in .NET 4

 

   http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/magazine/dd942829.aspx

 

Unsurprisingly they went deeper, the stuff on partial equivalence is particularly interesting.

Eric brings clarity to the whole "How can I have run out of memory when I still have more than enough available RAM?" thing:

 

   http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2009/06/08/out-of-memory-does-not-refer-to-physical-memory.aspx

 

Well worth reading, even if you think (as I previously did) that you know all this.

I was very happy to hear that John Skeet will be updating 'C# in Depth' to cover C# 4.0. John's book is, in my opinion, the best C# book out there. Concentrating as it does on the language rather than details of the .NET virtual machine or Base Class Library, 'C# in Depth' not only documents the evolution of the language but explains the why behind the addition of each new feature. It remains the only C# specific book in my programming library and I'm looking forward to getting my paws on the Manning MEAP edition just as soon as John starts posting the new chapters.

 

   http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon_skeet/archive/2009/04/16/rfc-c-in-depth-2nd-edition-proposed-changes-and-additions.aspx