I just finished skimming Pro C# 2005 and the .NET 2.0 Platform, Third Edition, by Andrew Troelsen. Since I didn’t read it properly, I can’t give it a fair review – I guess I’ve read one too many C# books. I didn’t notice anything too surprising, except for the chapter on developing dynamic assemblies with IL, at the end of which he apologizes for not having room to describe the more sane CodeDOM approach.

Overall, the breadth of this book is certainly impressive, but the depth is not there. A number of areas seemed to suffer from small misunderstandings. Furthermore, the attempt to include everything but the kitchen sink only makes more obvious the technologies that didn’t make the cut.

This book might be valuable for an experienced programmer that is approaching the C# world for the first time, but I’m afraid I didn’t find it very interesting.