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C# Essentials (2nd Edition)
by Ben Albahari, Peter Drayton, Brad Merrill
List Price: $24.95
Our Price: $17.47
ISBN: 0596003153
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates (January, 2002)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 137,606
Average Customer Rating: 4.12 out of 5
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Rating: 5 out of 5
Short and to the point
The joy of O'Reilly books is that are concise. You can pick up this book and read it in two days and start writing C# code immediately. This book covers all of the major elements of C#, but without lots of handholding.If you're a beginning developer, this will be a poor choice. However, if you you're a fairly experienced C++ developer, I would strongly recommend this book. I've printed out the C# Language Reference. I know all the answers are in it somewhere, but it's nearly 300 pages of dense writing. Rather than wading through it, I paid $15 for this book and I'm now writing C# code steadily and easily. I refer back to this book for quick reference questions (what's the format for setting a property, what does a COM interop call look like etc.) and then go online or to the language spec for deeper questions. If you want to get up to speed on C# quickly, this book should meet your needs well.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Needs to be updated when .Net is final.
Being a professional, I didn't want a "dummies" book. I didn't want an abstract. I wanted the "essential" so that I could start developing today.This book is absolutely the "essentials" and I got what I needed. If you are only going to buy one C# book (and you know what you're doing with programming languages), this is a good one. My only complaint with this book was the lack of discussion on using C# in ASP.NET. (Probably should be another book altogether, but it should at least be mentioned.) Next, I need a definative reference of the .Net framework. Does anybody know of any released?
Rating: 5 out of 5
My go-to book
When I first got into C# programming, I bought about $...worth of books on the subject. This has become my "Go-to" book - I go to it first, and usually don't have to bother with the other books.
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