Seeking book recommendations

[Paul Richards]

Hi,
I have several years experience with both C++ and Java and I am eager
to learn C#. Are there any books you can recommend to someone with
good programming experience already?

I am not looking for a book which teaches the .NET frameworks as I
assume there is good online reference material. I am also not looking
for something specific to the windows platform.

Currently I am looking at buying both of the following books:
"The C# Programming Language" - Anders Hejlsberg, Scott Wiltamuth,
Peter Golde
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/o bidos/ASIN/0321154916
"C# Language Pocket Reference" - Peter Drayton, Ben Albahari, Ted
Neward
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/o bidos/ASIN/059600429X


Any recommendations (or bewares) would be appreciated.

 

[Fabio Cannizzo]

I am a C++ pogrammer as well.

I found "Professional C# 3rd edition", WROX, good for my needs.

Fabio

 

[Paul Richards]

Looks quite windows centric from what I can find about it on the web.
Not something I am looking for.

 

[Guest]

Hi Paul,

May I also suggest the C# Cookbook and Nutshell series from ORielly.

Also note that since .NET 2.0 is going to be released shortly, a new set of
books on that (C# 2.0 etc.) would probably be released quite soon - so may be
you shouldn't invest much in .NET 1.1, C# etc. books right now.

HTH,
Rakesh Rajan

 

[Paul Richards]

The first book I listed apparently covers the major new language
features of C# 2.0.