Comments on: Book review: C# 2008 and 2005 Threaded Programming

By: Shawn B.

Shawn B. — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:34:24 +0000

This isn’t the kind of book I’d be interested in, it seems more like .NET Multithreading where the topic is more or less the mechanics of using the .NET threading primitives.

More to my taste are the following two books:

Concurrent Programming for Windows
Art of multiprocessor programing

Each of which will make you Zen masters of multiple processor programming with very deep understanding of how to do things and what to do.

By: Boris Daich

Boris Daich — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:06:18 +0000

Offtopic.

I understand that You do not need the answer from Intel – you did not send me the mail.

Boris.

By: Diego Fernandez Ortiz

Diego Fernandez Ortiz — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:32:47 +0000

@Tamir: You say “you’ll probably know (if you did not know before) how to use BackgroundWorker, Thread, ThreadPool, AutoResetEvent and WaitHandle classes”.
If you already knew how to use these, you wouldn’t buy this book.
The book is right for me. I’ve learned a lot about multicore programming. I didn’t know how to use BackgroundWorker, Threadpool and Threads.
@Romi: “Not relevant code”? I don’t agree with you. The book does a great work in explaining very difficult topics.
@Mike: I also liked the book (4.5 out of 5 on my scale)
I’m not a book reviewer. However, I found 2 more complete reviews:
http://www.devsource.com/c/a/Techniques/Book-Review-C-2008-and-2005-Threaded-Programming/

http://blog.mjjames.co.uk/2009/03/book-review-c-2008-and-2005-threaded.html

If you are an expert, I’m sure you don’t have to read a Beginner’s Guide book.
However, if you are a beginner (I am), I’m sure the book does a good job.

As Mike said: “Just my opinion”

Regards,
Diego Fernandez Ortiz (Y olé…)

By: romi

romi — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 07:08:53 +0000

Tamir is right. I also bought this book and it has copypast of not relevant code without basic concepts explained

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 05:58:53 +0000

Hi Tamir,

I own this book and I must say that I found your review a bit incomplete.
I liked the book (4 out of 5 on my scale), because I learned how to exploit multicore CPUs. That’s exactly what I was looking for with this book. It helped me a lot and I liked the examples.
I do not agree with a sepecific sentence of your review: “just copy-paste stuff from Visual Studio”. The examples are very well explained using nice diagrams. Just my opinion.

Cheers,

Mike

By: Me

Me — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 03:28:29 +0000

This is the excellent book that I ever seen

By: Ariel Ben Horesh

Ariel Ben Horesh — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:10:59 +0000

Also the title is misleading. There is no such thing c# 2008 or c# 2005. There is VS 2008 or 2005. Did they mean c# 3.0/2.0 or .Net framework 2.0/3.5.

If I understand correctly the title should have been “Threading in .Net 3.5, Examples in C#” and be over with