Recommendations for C# books?
 

Hi there,

I've been a delphi programmer off and on for about 10 years now. While I do have C and C++ background, overall I've let my skills as a programmer wither the last two years thanks to being forced to work in the hardware side of things.

I'm thinking about going back to programming, and I've been told that C# is probably the "next big thing" if I want to get a coding job. I could use some refernce suggestions bookwise if anyone has some suggestions I would appreciate them.

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I'm a huge fan of O'Reilly books and I've used this one myself and have been quite pleased with it. It will give you a very good start on "the whole C#" thing, as will getting yourself a copy of Visual Studio .NET and just playing with it. I'm a big fan of C#, it makes Windows API calls a breeze, unlike trying to use kludgish solutions in C/C++.

If you need help, let me know. Best of luck.

I also moved from a Delphi background and you will be pleased to know you will have very few issues moving across to C#

If you want to learn about the language itself rather than specifics of ASP.NET or Windows forms using C# then I can thoroughly recommnend Inside C# (http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/5861.asp) it gives a really clear and simple view of C# and the framework and is very readable.

I ended up gramming the Programming C# O'Reilly book (doh!) but it's pretty good so far. Also, like a sucker, I picked up the large signal to noise book C# Complete (ONLY $24.99!) lol.

Billys, I'll give Inside C# a try next time I'm at borders. Thanks!

The Programming C# by Jesse Liberty was a good choice... I have it right here on my bookshelf, and it's a solid reference.

This answer almost deserves its own announcement thread, but Google are currently Beta'ing a new portal called Google print. They are scanning ALL books, with obvious attention paid to copyrights.

http://print.google.com

Searching for C# I got this result.
http://print.google.com/print?q=C%23&btnG=Search+Print

Pick which one you like and read all the pages online.
It's very quick.

You will need a gmail or other google account to read the books.

if anyone needs a gmail invite just PM me. but aside from that, i would recommend you using websites like codeproject.com for intermediate and hard topics after you learn the basic class structure and syntaxing