Books for windows applications using C#

[Venkatesh]

Hi All

I am a newbie to C# .I am currently developing windows application.Can anyone suggest good books or links for developing Windows Applications using C#.

[Patrick de Ridder]

On forms: MacDonald M. (2002) User interfaces in C#, Springer Verlag. Inc,
New York, NY, ISBN 1-59059-045-7
You will need a good introductory book as well. Liberty J. (2002) Learning
C#, O'Rreily, Cambridge etc, ISBN 0-596-00376-5

Don't buy a Deitel & Deitel book
Don't buy Joseph Mayo's C# Unleashed
Don't buy Erik Brown's Wndows Forms
They are a waste of money and time

Patrick de Ridder.
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Hi All:

I am a newbie to C# .I am currently developing windows application.Can

anyone suggest good books or links for developing Windows Applications using
C#.

[Max Power]

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Hi All:

I am a newbie to C# .I am currently developing windows application.Can
anyone suggest good books or links for developing Windows Applications
using C#.

The best that I have found is Windows Forms Programming in C# by Chris
Sells. The book Professional C# from Wrox is good too.

[Mark Broadbent]

I have to concur with this. Im currently working my way thru it and it is
very good.
Might I also suggest that (if you havent already done so) it is very useful
to first read up on the concepts and basics of the C# language itself since
I have found when going through this book that they can be very helpful in
understanding some of the WinForms methodologies e.g. adding controls to the
forms controls collection.

The best C# reference book Ive read so far if relatively old but called C#
The Complete Reference -by Herbert Shildt. Its the dogs b*******

and for Win Forms it has got to be Chris Sells' effort.

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Mark Broadbent
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Hi All:

I am a newbie to C# .I am currently developing windows application.Can
anyone suggest good books or links for developing Windows Applications
using C#.

The best that I have found is Windows Forms Programming in C# by Chris
Sells. The book Professional C# from Wrox is good too.

[Mark Broadbent]

Max just on the off chance, since you bought Chris' book, just wondered
whether you bought Anders' book too (since they both were published around
the same time). If so is it any good?

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Hi All:

I am a newbie to C# .I am currently developing windows application.Can
anyone suggest good books or links for developing Windows Applications
using C#.

The best that I have found is Windows Forms Programming in C# by Chris
Sells. The book Professional C# from Wrox is good too.

[Brad Williams]

"Patrick de Ridder" <wa********@all .here> wrote in message
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You will need a good introductory book as well. Liberty J. (2002) Learning
C#, O'Rreily, Cambridge etc, ISBN 0-596-00376-5
I certainly wouldn't recommend Learning C# to anyone, newbie or not, it's a
slog that found it's way to my trash can. A Programmer's Introduction to C#
or C# Programmer's Reference are good fast intros to the language for anyone
who has some programming sense.

Brad Williams

Don't buy a Deitel & Deitel book
Don't buy Joseph Mayo's C# Unleashed
Don't buy Erik Brown's Wndows Forms
They are a waste of money and time

Patrick de Ridder.
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Hi All:

I am a newbie to C# .I am currently developing windows application.Can anyone suggest good books or links for developing Windows Applications

using C#.

[Roy Fine]

the Anders' is just a formatted reprint of the C# Language Specification
from MSDN.

If you like hard-copy, it's a great resource --

regards
roy fine
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Max just on the off chance, since you bought Chris' book, just wondered
whether you bought Anders' book too (since they both were published around
the same time). If so is it any good?

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Br,
Mark Broadbent
mcdba , mcse+i
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Hi All:

I am a newbie to C# .I am currently developing windows application.Can
anyone suggest good books or links for developing Windows Applications
using C#.

The best that I have found is Windows Forms Programming in C# by Chris
Sells. The book Professional C# from Wrox is good too.

[Patrick de Ridder]

Hi Brad,

Well, that is really intelligent comment you have given.
The best choice of a textbook obviously depends on
prior experience and on how bright you are. I have
compared Learning C# (O'Reilly) with three other
textbooks on C#, and Learning C# covers the grounds
pretty well. The only thing that is missing, is some verbal
diarrhoea. So if it's is a lot of words you want, indeed,
chuck Learning C# it in the garbage can and spend a
lot of money on a book with half a million pages, there are
enough of them around.

Patrick.

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You will need a good introductory book as well. Liberty J. (2002) Learning C#, O'Rreily, Cambridge etc, ISBN 0-596-00376-5
I certainly wouldn't recommend Learning C# to anyone, newbie or not, it's

a slog that found it's way to my trash can. A Programmer's Introduction to C# or C# Programmer's Reference are good fast intros to the language for anyone who has some programming sense.

Brad Williams

Don't buy a Deitel & Deitel book
Don't buy Joseph Mayo's C# Unleashed
Don't buy Erik Brown's Wndows Forms
They are a waste of money and time

Patrick de Ridder.
"Venkatesh" <an*******@disc ussions.microso ft.com> wrote in message
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Hi All:

I am a newbie to C# .I am currently developing windows application.Can

anyone suggest good books or links for developing Windows Applications

using

C#.

[Julian Nicholls]

If you are serious about Schildt's book being good then he must have got a
clue very recently because almost all his C++ books are the worst kind of
garbage.

(see knowledgeable reviews here:
http://www.accu.org/bookreviews/publ...iews/0au/s.htm)

There is also a list of C# books reviewed at the same site.
http://www.accu.org/bookreviews/publ...ews/0ti/cs.htm

Best Regards
Julian N.

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I have to concur with this. Im currently working my way thru it and it is
very good.
Might I also suggest that (if you havent already done so) it is very useful to first read up on the concepts and basics of the C# language itself since I have found when going through this book that they can be very helpful in
understanding some of the WinForms methodologies e.g. adding controls to the forms controls collection.

The best C# reference book Ive read so far if relatively old but called C#
The Complete Reference -by Herbert Shildt. Its the dogs b*******

and for Win Forms it has got to be Chris Sells' effort.

--

--

Br,
Mark Broadbent
mcdba , mcse+i
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Hi All:

I am a newbie to C# .I am currently developing windows application.Can
anyone suggest good books or links for developing Windows Applications
using C#.

The best that I have found is Windows Forms Programming in C# by Chris
Sells. The book Professional C# from Wrox is good too.

[Brad Williams]

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Hi Brad,

Well, that is really intelligent comment you have given.
Um, there *is* actually some reasoning in my post (you know what "slog"
means?), whereas your first post amounted to "this good; these bad"!

Let me spell it out: Learning C# is a great book for learning C# ... for
the kind of person who should not be programming in the first place. It
contains too much verbose hand-holding for too long, and much of the
hand-holding is out-of-order (OO is discussed in chapter 3, if I remember,
and classes are introduced in chapter 8!) or downright confusing (the worst
explanation of delegates I have seen in print).

I bet any worthy beginner would be better off going straight to Liberty's
Professional C#, which gets great reviews though I haven't touched it. And
any professional programmer worth his or her salary can pick up the language
very quickly with A Programmer's Introduction to C#.

Brad Williams
The best choice of a textbook obviously depends on
prior experience and on how bright you are. I have
compared Learning C# (O'Reilly) with three other
textbooks on C#, and Learning C# covers the grounds
pretty well. The only thing that is missing, is some verbal
diarrhoea. So if it's is a lot of words you want, indeed,
chuck Learning C# it in the garbage can and spend a
lot of money on a book with half a million pages, there are
enough of them around.

Patrick.

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You will need a good introductory book as well. Liberty J. (2002) Learning C#, O'Rreily, Cambridge etc, ISBN 0-596-00376-5
I certainly wouldn't recommend Learning C# to anyone, newbie or not,

it's a

slog that found it's way to my trash can. A Programmer's Introduction

to C#

or C# Programmer's Reference are good fast intros to the language for

anyone

who has some programming sense.

Brad Williams

Don't buy a Deitel & Deitel book
Don't buy Joseph Mayo's C# Unleashed
Don't buy Erik Brown's Wndows Forms
They are a waste of money and time

Patrick de Ridder.
"Venkatesh" <an*******@disc ussions.microso ft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi All:
>
> I am a newbie to C# .I am currently developing windows application.Can anyone suggest good books or links for developing Windows Applications

using

C#.