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

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

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

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

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I second this. The book is great! :wave:

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

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

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!

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

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

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