Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft))

This is one of the best start up books for people that are new to C#, Visual Studio 2005 and the .Net Frameworks, and/or are coming from a VB 6 background, with little or no experience with true object oriented programming concepts. All the C# fundementals are covered, in a clear and easy to understand presentation. Basic object oriented concepts are presented in an early chapter with simple examples, and then are later expanded upon with more detailed examples showing the real power of inheritance, encapsulation, polymorphism, and interfaces. The book also includes useful introductions to the Visual Studio 2005 IDE, Winforms, ASP.Net, ADO.Net, and Web Services, with accompanying labs for each. Perhaps this book scores it's highest points with it's simplified discussion of delegates and events, a topic which is unfortunately usually made needlessly obtuse by most C# books. I wish I could have started with a great beginners book like this when I entered the .Net world back in 2002. I'd recommend this book to anybody new to C# and object oriented programming. After finishing this book, add to your object oriented skill set with the indespensible 'Head First Design Patterns' and you'll have a solid foundation for advancing to the next level of C# and .Net programming.

I had previously programmed as a hobby in Borland Delphi but had no knowledge of C#. I have been impressed with John Sharp's book and would buy it again. After making it thru the 1st ten chapters I feel like I have a good grasp of C# basics and have been able to make good progress on a C# project for mutual fund analysis. With the wealth of C# info available on the internet I debated the need for a book. However I found this book with it's clear and comprehensive style to be invaluable and a real time saver in learning the C# language.

This book elaborate every step in details. You seldom find a book which explains in detail and yet for beginner. this is the reason i rate 5. anyway, for those developers who have some experience in c# and wish to look for more advance topic. this is not the book for you.

I am a C++ coder doing white box QA testing, after reading about C# thought it might prove useful in developing QA Tools for testing backend processes, got this book on a whim and it has proved to be very useful, well written, and very good examples, although I have a OOP background I found the chapters on OOP could be helpful for the beginner as well as us "know it alls," and would recommend this to my colleges and friends.