Recommanded books or other...

[Jim Bassett]

I am completely new to C#. I have programed a number of years in VC, ATL, and VB and wnat to start looking at .NET and C#, etc. Can someone suggest a few books or other material to help get up to coding speed. I am one of those guys that prefers examples.

Thanks

[Brad Jones]

There is a list of currently released book on this site (http://www.codeguru.com/announcements/dotnetbooks.html).

Microsoft is having their Tech Ed conference in two weeks. Near that time they are suppose to release beta 2. All of the current books are on the first beta, and thus may be outdated when the new beta releases. I expect that many of the key computer book publishers will be releasing a number of books on or around this same time period.

If you really want a book now. The WROX book is probably the best with regard to learning and with having samples. The O'Reilly book (while containing typos in some of the code) is not bad for a quick reference but lacks in the area of big examples.

- just my opinions.
Brad!

[Fox20]

Hi,

if you speak German I suggest http://www.guidetocsharp.de to you! It's for beginners and in development, but it is growing :-).

Greetings,


Golo Haas



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[Terrance Simkin]

I just finished reading and testing Wrox book C# Programming with Public Beta.
It is a good solid well laid out book. You need to have intermediate to advanced C++ programming skills to understand most of the book. You will need some VB and COM programming experience to understand the more advanced chapters.

A few of the examples are too complex for effective use. But most of the book examples are well done.

If you fit the above qualifications, this is the book to start learning C# with.


Professor Computer Engineering Technology. Teach 5 languages, multithreading and interfacing.

[Jim Bassett]

Thanks for the information and yes I do have the required background.

[angelsb]

If you like examples you are in luck!

I just wrote this for a diffeent thread, copying here since I don't know if just pasting the link would work long term.

Just download the Beta2 and install the samples. The documentation is fairly good and easy to browse, but the samples are amazing.

you can see the beta 1 (I don't know if/when they will update this) samples online at
http://dev.aspfree.com/quickstart/default.aspx

You will probably want to start with the howtos
http://dev.aspfree.com/quickstart/howto/
--Languages

and on the top right corner select "I want my samples in..." choose c#

enjoy