Best C# Book - C# / C Sharp

Robert S. Ramos

I need help in selecting the best C# book for someone going from VB.NET to
C#. I am in the process of looking for a new job and I have found an
excellent company, problem is that I have only being using C# for about 6
months and they want me to take an online test to verify that I know C#. I
really want this job, so my idea is to get one or two good books and spend a
week at the most studying the languange intensely. I am a very fast learner
and have been coding in VB6 for 10 years, VB.Net for 3 years, and developed
in C and C++ in school. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Robert S. Ramos
Software Developer/Designer
Southern California, USA

Nov 17 '05 #1

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Chris

On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 11:49:06 -0800, Robert S. Ramos
<Ro**********@d iscussions.micr osoft.com> wrote:

I need help in selecting the best C# book for someone going from VB.NET to
C#. I am in the process of looking for a new job and I have found an
excellent company, problem is that I have only being using C# for about 6
months and they want me to take an online test to verify that I know C#. I
really want this job, so my idea is to get one or two good books and spend a
week at the most studying the languange intensely. I am a very fast learner
and have been coding in VB6 for 10 years, VB.Net for 3 years, and developed
in C and C++ in school. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

There are plenty of good books on C# available - the difficult part is
finding the one that really does it for you...

I usually look at amazon.com, check the readers' comments, try to
find/read a sample chapter, deciding on the "look and feel" of the
book as well!

There's a pretty nice book from sybex "C# complete" (for $25)
http://www.sybex.com/sybexbooks.nsf/ffabbbf6a64357f f8825695a00809d 79/a06b79f99d07bde f88256c1600318f dd!OpenDocument

There's the Deitel series with lots of programming examples (some like
this approach - some don't)
http://www.deitel.com/books/csharpAP...pAPI1_toc.html

My favourite is "Beginning C# objects" as one needs to dig into OOP
http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=293

Also take a look at Liberty's book (4th Edition - covers C#2.0 and
VS2005) http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progcsharp4/

And last but not least, Mayo's book "C# Unleashed"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...942940-4461667
and website with excellent tutorials at http://www.csharp-station.com/

Happy coding!

Chris

Nov 17 '05 #2

Mark Rae

"Robert S. Ramos" <Ro**********@d iscussions.micr osoft.com> wrote in message
news:DD******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...

Robert,

I need help in selecting the best C# book for someone going from VB.NET to
C#. I am a very fast learner
and have been coding in VB6 for 10 years, VB.Net for 3 years, and
developed
in C and C++ in school. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

If I were you, I would pick your most "complex" VB.NET app and simply
rewrite it in C#, using MSDN for reference. Since you've been using VB.NET
for 3 years, you're surely *very* familiar with the .NET Framework, which is
the important part, and the fact that you've used C# for 6 months must mean
that you're familiar enough with the syntax. Anything else you need can
almost certainly be found on the net using Google and/or this newsgroup...
:-)

Nov 17 '05 #3

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