Like most complex tasks, .NET programming is fraught withpotential costly, and time-consuming hazards. The millionsof Microsoft developers worldwide who create applicationsfor the .NET platform can attest to that. Thankfully there'snow a book that shows you how to avoid such costly andtime-consuming mistakes. It's called .NET Gotchas.

The ultimate guide for efficient, pain-free coding, .NETGotchas from O'Reilly contains 75 common .NET programmingpitfalls—and advice on how to work around them. It willhelp you steer away from those mistakes that causeapplication performance problems, or so taint code that itjust doesn't work right.

The book is organized into nine chapters, each focusing onthose features and constructs of the .NET platform thatconsistently baffle developers. Within each chapter areseveral "gotchas," with detailed examples, discussions, andguidelines for avoiding them. No doubt about it, whenapplied, these concise presentations of best practices willhelp you lead a more productive, stress-free existence.

What's more, because code examples are written in bothVB.NET and C#, .NET Gotchas is of interest to more than 75percent of the growing numbers of .NET programmers. So ifyou're a .NET developer who's mired in the trenches andyearning for a better way, this book is most definitely foryou.