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what book would you recommend to improve one's c# style of writing? I know Code Complete has a few tips on style and organizing code but it's not specific to c#.

+2  A: 

Effective C# by Bill Wagner, as well as the sequel, More Effective C#.

Richard Dunlap
+5  A: 

Have a look at the iDesign coding standards at: http://www.idesign.net/idesign/DesktopDefault.aspx

Mark Redman
Juval's style is a solid baseline. The book "Programming .NET Components" is also fairly high on my "must-read" .NET books. It's got lots of good advice on style and practices.
STW
+2  A: 

CLR Via C# by Jeffrey Richter contains all the 2.0 patterns you need to follow in order to produce good code. Helped me immensely.

Will
+15  A: 

Framework Design Guidelines, 2nd Edition.

Scott Dorman
+1 - This is a DEFINITE requirement for anybody who either gets paid to developer .NET code or whose code may have to be maintained by someone else.
STW
+3  A: 

MSDN has some good guidelines for developing C# classes.

Dour High Arch
These are essentialy an online version of what's in the Framework Design Guidelines book without the "annotations" contained in the book.
Scott Dorman
+6  A: 

Not a book, but check out StyleCop

Martin
+1- that was going to be my answer, but you'd already answered it.
RichardOD
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C# Concisely very thorough

wallacer