Professional .NET Framework 2.0, by Joe Duffy, contains 600 pages of mostly interesting information about the latest release of the .NET Framework. For the most part, the book covers topics to an appropriate depth; that is, it generally manages to finish a topic before I get tired of it.

It is difficult to review a book full of information about a technology that you are already experienced in, because you can’t properly evaluate how well the book would have taught you that information had you not already known it. My inclination is that this book would be fairly inaccessible to someone without reasonable experience in a previous release of the .NET Framework and/or the C# language.

The book could have used a bit more editing. I had a strong feeling of déjà vu while reading about anonymous delegates in chapter 14, so I looked back to chapter 2, where I found the pretty much the exact same text.

Still, the writing style is good, and I learned some things I hadn’t already learned from other sources, so I recommend this book to anyone that wants to fill some of the gaps in their knowledge of the .NET framework.