Which book?

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Another book recommendation request. I've looked through the old archives but
can't find any consensus at all. I'm currently a C++ developer, and I know that
on the C++ newsgroups there is a general consensus among the top handful of best
books, depending on your experience level and needs. Maybe because C#/.NET is
younger, I haven't noticed it yet for this technology. What do you recommend
for a professional C++/OO developer who will be switching to C#/.NET development
for the first time in a new job on a partially implemented product? (I do not
know which parts of .NET are used most heavily on the project.)
 
I don't think there is any one book that will tell you everything. I have
found the following useful:

* Inside C#, 2nd Ed. by Tom Archer
* Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming by Jeffrey Richter
* Advanced .NET Remoting (C# edition) by Ingo Rammer
* Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey E.F. Friedl (there is a section
that deals exclusively with .NET Regexes)
* Essential ASP.NET with examples in C# by Fritz Onion
* Windows Forms Programming in C# by Chris Sells

That's a short list. I'm sure other developers have their own list of books
that helped them to get started. If you're feeling particularly ambitious,
you might even try to tackle the C# Language Spec:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/csspec/html/CSharpSpecStart.asp

HTH,

Jon

P.s. -- I, too, was a C++ dev before moving to C#/.NET. It's a pretty
painless process.
 
Jon Sagara said:
I don't think there is any one book that will tell you everything.
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I knew that was a mistake as soon as I sent it :-) I'd take 2 or 3...... I
guess part of the problem is my local bookstore doesn't carry most of these
books, so it's hard to determine the differences between coverage of C# language
per se, vs. .NET framework, vs. Visual Studio mechanics, vs. ASP etc etc I'd
take 2 books with some combination of good coverage of the language, .NET
framework, and Visual Studio usage. I've seen Richter's book mentioned more
than once.
 
I buy most of mine through Amazon. They generally have a TOC for the books
that you can browse through before buying it. Also, check the publisher's
Web site.

- Jon
 
Jon Sagara said:
I buy most of mine through Amazon.
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Amazon also has used books to buy/sell. BTW, for the lowest prices on new tech
books, try bookpool.com. Consistently lower prices.
 
Hi Jeff.

You can get a lot of the information on C# from the sample chapters
available. A lot of these (68 chapters) are available in my C# ebook page,
(in signature).

Hope this helps

Publicjoe

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Publicjoe said:
You can get a lot of the information on C# from the sample chapters
available.
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Yeah, but the problem is I don't know which chapters I want in a book :-)
Thanks
 
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