Professional C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0 1st Edition

A comprehensive book, but a tough haul for a newbie on C# and NET core programming. Be prepared to spend some time to work your way through this rather comprehensive volume. Combine this book with internet resources to develop your own C# programming application.

Really pleased with this and it offers comprehensive coverage of every aspect of .Net Core. My only issue is that while there are downloadable example projects for each chapter, they were written with a pre-release version of VS/.Net Core/Win 10/whatever, so when you load them up in Visual Studio, all of the external references are broken and they wont compile.

I am only about a third of the way through this book, but I am really enjoying it - and learning a lot along the way. This is my first introduction to .NET Core and I am liking what I see so far.

Just what I needed. Covers a wide range of topics in good detail. It is very clear and I enjoy reading it.Moving from C++ to C# I find the explanations of memory handling and other very specific C# topics very helpful.

Written in a professional tone for the experienced developer who doesn't want to deal with too much tedious/repetitive content. Very comprehensive with good focus on powerful features and frameworks available in the language.

Great references, snippets and thorough explanations about C# and .NET Core 1.0. There are ASP.NET Core references in this book but it's only summarized in a vague manner. But that's ok, this book is not advertising ASP.NET Core

Great intro to C#6 and .NET Core. If you want to learn these two this is the book. Not for beginners. Have been coding in C# since .NET 1.1

This book almost won the .NET Core 1.0 publication race. The first book/s on a new technology sell more and thus make more money but the 'best' books come later. It's obvious the author was using an early version (probably RC1) of .NET Core when writing this book. Unfortunately, RC2 removed the command line tools and opted to release them in 'Previews'. As of today (30 May 2016) the tooling preview is preview 1. Preview 1 does not contain all the functionality that's shown in this book. For example, page 19 talks about the REPL. The REPL is not currently available. On page 21 it states that you can compile a program to native code using this command line: > dotnet build --native. No, you can't. Running that will give you an error. The note (in the insert) on page 22 mentions the 'dotnet compile' command but that currently is not available either. Maybe these tools will be available in the future, maybe not. For now the book leaves the reader scratching their head.Also, (Code on page 20) the NetStandard.Library moniker shown under the "dependencies" section of the sample project.json file is obsolete. It has been replaced by Microsoft.NETCore.App. This mistake propagates into subsequent chapters.If the code is still in RC or Preview status, write a blog post or at most, a 200-300 page book on getting started. Don't write the 1400+ page professional edition until development slows down. To learn more about the current state of .NET Core, read Microsoft's .NET blog.5 start reviews for a 1400+ page professional level programming book, containing thousands of lines of sample code, posted less than 30 days after publication, should be taken with a grain of salt.JE