Teach yourself Visual C# 2005 fundamentals one step at a time. With this practical, learn-by-doing tutorial, you get the guidance you need to start creating programs and components in C#! Discover how to: Work in the Visual Studio 2005 development environment Declare variables, call methods, and create operators Construct statements to selectively or repeatedly run your code Catch and handle exception errors Use object-oriented concepts to declare classes and objects Write destructors to clean up unneeded code and help manage resources Create reusable components, such as properties, indexers, and events Define types and parameters for generics and generalized classes Use Windows Forms to create user interfaces complete with user controls Access data sources using Microsoft ADO.NET Construct Web Forms that display large volumes of data Validate user input with Microsoft ASP.NET controls Write, test, and deploy Web services CD features all practice exercises.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Good Starter book but supplement it with another book to learn all the programming constructs in C#:
Judging from the reviews here, I probably would not recommend this book if you have never programmed (or used "Windows-like" IDE) before. But if you are an experienced C++/Java programmer new to C# and comfortable with the Windows programming environment, I think this is a pretty good place to start. Pros:
Good overview of C# 2.0. A much smaller book compared to many books out there. Easy to read (you can probably read/skim through the first 200 pages in a couple of hours). Cons:
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a little too quick for a step by step book:
although the book has lots of good ideas, it lacks examples. It is short on explanation being a beginners level book, the book would need another 100 pages of more elaboration and explanation.
Great book for beginner/intermediate level programmers:
I have read a number of programming books for a variety of languages and they do not come much better than this. All the topics are explained in an easy to understand and concise manner. This book stays away from many of the mistakes of other books i.e. it is not too dry and academic and there is no project going on throughout the book that you have to keep up with. This book is an easy read and covers the topics in sufficient depth for most software developers.
A Good Starter - But Incomplete:
This contains what you'd expect to learn about the basics of C#. It does not contain anything on MDI forms, Redo/Undo, or working with MDI dynamic Menus. It is just the basics. I'll sell you mine if you really want a copy.
