Newbie: C Sharp and ASP.Net. Books wanted.

[General Fear]

We have several desktop applications written in either Foxpro or
Access. Next year, our company wants to move to C# and ASP.NET and put
these application in an intranet.

I have 10 years experience creating department wide solutions using
Foxpro, or VB/Crystal Reports/ Access. We now moving to the modern age.

What books should I look read that will help me convert these
department wide solutions to C# and ASP? We might be using Oracle as a
back end or MS SQL Server.

Thanking you all in advance

.. .

 

[YiShusen]

use "C# book" search group google search, you'll find a lot.

 

[John Kn [MS]]

General,

C# books are legion out here, but I would suggest, looking at what laguages
you are currently using, "An Information Systems Approach to
Object-Oriented Programming: Using Microsoft Visual C# .NET" by Lutes,
Harriger, and Purdum. It is about 555 big pages. C# is OOP through and
through. A person of your background could go through it in less than a
weekend.

It has a three prong appeal: [1] Object Oriented Programming, an excellent
refresher; [2] C# as an instruction vehicle, it assumes zero knowledge of
C#; and [3] a thorough exposure to the Microsoft IDE. The IDE is an
awesome tool, very rich and very hugh. The Book familiarizes you with the
IDE very quickly with little pain.

Then I would spend time here:
The C# Rossetta Stone:
http://www.werelight.com/docs/dotnet_lang_quickref.htm#_Variable_Declaration
s_1
Visual C# Language Concepts:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cscon/html/
vcoriCStartPage.asp?frame=true
The Code Project - CSharp: http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/

Happy coding!
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We have several desktop applications written in either Foxpro or
Access. Next year, our company wants to move to C# and ASP.NET and put
these application in an intranet.

I have 10 years experience creating department wide solutions using
Foxpro, or VB/Crystal Reports/ Access. We now moving to the modern age.

What books should I look read that will help me convert these
department wide solutions to C# and ASP? We might be using Oracle as a
back end or MS SQL Server.

Thanking you all in advance

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[David Veeneman]

It depends on how elaborate you want to get. If you aren't doing OOP now,
decide whether you want to. OOP takes longer to do, but it provides a robust
architecture for maintenance and modification for years down the road.
However, note that C# and ASP.Net can be used without heavy OOP
architecture. Development is quicker and cheaper, but the resulting apps
aren't as easily maintained or modified.

With that said, here are a couple of suggestions from my bookshelf:

-- OOP generally: 'Object Design' by Wirfs-Brock (Learning OOP)

-- C#: Any good C# intro book--there are dozens out there. But learn some
basic OOP first.

-- OOP Architecture: 'Expert C# Business Objects' by Lhotka. This book
presents a complete framework for enterprise applications. It is very
heavily OOP-oriented, and it can be overwhelming if you haven't studied OOP.
But if you can follow it, it's pure gold.

-- DotNet Framework: 'Programming Microsoft .Net' by Prosise (Reference)

-- Low-Level DotNet: 'Programming Microsoft Windows with C#' by Petzold
(Reference)

-- ASP.NET: 'Introducing ASP.NET 2.0' by Esposito (Learning ASP.NET)

The walk-throughs and 'starter kit' applications provide tutorials and
reference code for C#. And if you are looking at ASP.NET for its ease of
deployment, look on MSDN for 'smart client' articles. It's Microsoft's
current initiative to provide Windows clients that deploy over an intranet
with the connectivity and ease of deployment of a web application, with a
superior user experience.

Hope that helps,
Dave Veeneman