Essential .NET
by Don Box, Chris Sells · first published 2002
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Definitely Don Box's Essential .NET (http://www.amazon.com/Essential-NET-Common-Language-Runtime/...). For the concurrency aspect I recommend Joe Duffy's Concurrent Programming on Windows (http://www.amazon.com/Concurrent-Programming-Windows-Joe-Duf...).
on “Ask HN: Any good .NET books?” ↗…code that ran under Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) and COM+. Another interesting book by Mr Box and co-authored by Chris Sells, purely from a historical perspective now as it's fairly ancient, is Essential .NET Vol. 1[0]. Sadly they never got around to writing a second volume. As a humourous aside, who remembers Don's lecture he did from a bath tub?: https://blog.mattmags.com/2011/05/19/don-box-the-bathtub-lec...…
on “Server APIs Project” ↗If you have something interesting to say then people will figure a way to understand it. Early in my career I remember coming across “Essential .Net” by Don Box and I don’t think Don Box had a particular audience in mind. He just unwrapped what’s under the hood in Common Language Runtime (CLR). It took me multiple times to really understand “essential…
on “Why I wrote the BEAM book” ↗