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Ask HN: Best C#/.Net resources?

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Hi HN, I'm about to start on a project involving C# and .Net. I've worked with these technologies in the past but it's now been many years since I last touched them. Now trying to orient myself around the best practices, tools, etc.

Anything you'd like to recommend? Favorite books, screencasts, courses? Awesome tools & libraries?

Thanks in advance!

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divinebovine
If you're looking at dotnet core just keep in mind that its been evolving quite a bit and can be a little frustrating when major changes happen. Though I think its starting to settle down a little. There's a lot of good documentation for it here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/articles/core/index

Hanselman always has good posts on his blog: http://www.hanselman.com/

Outside of that, we'll need to know a bit more about what you're looking at to give you better advice.

tjalfi
I've been using C# and .NET for about 18 months. Here are some of the books and other materials that I have found helpful.

Framework Design Guidelines - how to design libraries that anyone from Jon Skeet to Mort can use successfully. The focus is on library design but I have found it valuable for day to day coding.

Effective C# - how to implement the usual idioms properly.

CLR via C# - this is a dry read but has answers to many questions I would have never thought to ask.

C# in Depth - excellent coverage of language features from C#1 to C#5.

Writing High Performance .NET Code - the title says it all

Pluralsight courses:

https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/csharp-applying-... - excellent coverage of the functional core/imperative shell approach to program design. If you know Haskell you can probably skip this.

https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/csharp-design-st... - Jon Skeet implements the GoF patterns.

Visual Studio addins:

ReSharper - the diagnostics are quite valuable

SpecFlow - support for the Gherkin DSL for BDD testing.

Tools:

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