Best Book for C# using VS.NET ???

[cooldudeattitud]

Hi,

I was just wondering which book is the best for learning and mastering C# both basic and advance using VS.NET....
It should show how to develop applications using VS.NET...Thanks for ur help guys in advance

[Pirate]

Programming Microsoft Windows with Csharp by Charles Petzold . You won't regret it .

[kleptos]

Originally posted by Pirate
Programming Microsoft Windows with Csharp by Charles Petzold . You won't regret it .

I second this. The book is great!

[cooldudeattitud]

thankx a lot for ur replies guyz...more suggestions will be appreciated...N the book u have suggested doesn't cover Ado.net applications using VS.NET....
Ur help will be appreciated

[Tewl]

Here are a few good books i like

Database Programming With C# by Carsten Thomsen

C# Network Programming by Richard Blum

C# Text Manipulation Handbook by Francois Liger

.NET Multithreading by Alan L. Dennis

[brad jones]

If you are wanting something that hits the topics hard and fast, then check out some of the certification books such as the Exam Cram 2 books.

Brad!

[Pirate]

What happened to my post here ? . It got deleted for some reason .

[cooldudeattitud]

Thanks for ur reply guyz...I will have a look at some of the suggested books and buy them.....

[BramVandenbon]

I had to buy "C# how to program, intrudoction to .NET and Web Services".

First of all the cover is a bit gay-like. There are flies playing piano on the cover.

It took me a while to appreciate this book. Because it really deals about EVERYTHING and goes really slow through it , But on the other hand it really deals with everything. ;-) that's a good and a bad thing. It can be used as a reference or as a learning book.

1) starting with 52 pages introduction about .NET and visual studio
2) the next 25 pages are an introduction on C#
3) followed by 73 pages (!) about programming structures and general syntax (for, if, do while, switch, string formatting, ||, &&, ^, ...)
4) 54 pages about methods and recursive methods including some school-examples like fibonnacci and the towers of hanoi
5) 34pages about arrays
6) object based programming: 52 pages
7) inheritance: 31 pages
8) polymorphism: 49 pages
9) exception handling : 24 pages
10) GUI: 109 pages !! :-S
11) multithreading : 24 pages
12) 42 pages about strings , characters and regular expressions
13) graphics and multimedia 69 pages
14) files and streams ... 78 pages
15) XML 46 pages
16) SQL and ADO.NET i believe this was what you are looking for ? (44 pages)
17) ASP.NET 134 pages
18)33 pages about sockets
19) 53 pages about collections and structures
20) all about accessibility ... 49 pages
21) there's a cd included with examples about all of this and other fancy examples: the next 253 pages deal mainly about that