If you purchase just one book on C++/CLI, make sure it's this one

I'm not sure when to start to review this text. I've read it cover-to-cover, at least four times. I've read over the material and examples so many times, I can practically quote it chapter and verse. This book is hands down the best reference manual on C++/CLI that exists in print. If you had to select just one book to purchase on the topic, this one is it.

One of the things that particularly amazes me about this text is the sheer volume of it. Books this large are usually 75% reference material that can be found elsewhere. This is not the case with this text. It's has very little straight reference material, but instead is jam packed with original content, that's laced with useful insight and terrific examples.

I don't think there is much I can say critical about the material. About the only weaknesses are in the coverage of triple slash documentation and XMLReader/Writer usage.

The triple slash docs lack really useful examples -- and are built around NDoc. A more more useful set of examples, that show the output that results from specific input would have been more helpful. And NDoc development has halted, and is now replaced by Sandcastle.

I had never read another book by this author, but you can be sure I'd purchase one anytime I have need of a topic he's treated. Steven Fraser is an excellent author -- a real credit to his trade.

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• If you purchase just one book on C++/CLI, make sure it's this one