Question

I’m currently looking at purchasing a few C# 4.0 books, namely:

Essential C# 4.0 by Mark Michaelis or C# 4.0 Unleashed by Bart De Smet.

I am aware that both books are yet to be released, but would you consider purchasing either of these books, or would you recommend another?

Thanks for your time.

Clarification:

I’m not a .NET Ninja, but I do have 8+ years experience with the framework & related languages. So I’m generally looking for in-depth books. I also train/instruct the rest of my organisation generally 6 – 12 months after each .NET release. Each of the developers I train has the same or more .net experience than myself.

Once again thank you all for your time.

Update:

Thank you everyone for your responses. I’ve decided to purchase both books along with Visual C# 2010 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, as suggested by Waleed Al Balooshi.

Answer 1

I would recommend that you buy the MEAP (Early Access Edition) of Jon Skeet’s C# in Depth 2nd edition, which is updated to include C# 4.0

In addition to this there is also:

1. C# 4.0 in a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference (Already Out)

Other than that I can’t really say about the other books, because they aren’t out yet, but I like the A Problem-Solution Series:

2. Visual C# 2010 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Not Out Yet)

I would wait till the books are out and you can read some reviews about them, till then I again highly recommend Jon Skeet’s book.