Programming C# 3.0: Best-Selling Guide to Building Windows and Web Applications with C# 3.0

by Jesse Liberty and Donald Xie

Book Overview

Written by popular author and .NET expert Jesse Liberty, this thoroughly updated tutorial for beginning to intermediate programmers covers the latest release of Microsoft's popular C# language (C#... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0596527438
• ISBN13: 9780596527433
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Some chapters are great but others need more content

I read a sample chapter on delegates and events. Thats why I bought this book it is a good coverage. But other areas like Generic classes need more content and coverage. Overall good book but can't rate 5 stars.

Very good book, misleading cover.

I know C++ at deep and I bought this book to learn the C# language, I've never used Java before. I would give it 5 stars because it does what the title claims: teach the C# programming language, and it does very well, but I'm refusing to give the 5th star because in the top of the cover it claims it is a guide to building windows and web applications, for sure it is not, and the black strip on the book's cover claims it covers LINQ and XAML, and sincerly a couple of chapters and some examples is not covering, it's introducing. Authors should be more involved in this kind of stuff, and editors should stop telling lies. The book teaches the C# language assuming you already know how to program, the margin notes are mostly for Java and Visual Basic programmers. Every concept is provided with an easy to follow source code example, and most are introduced quickly and to the point, although I wish the first 3 chapters were shorter. Almost all the code in the book is for the console, as the book doesn't try to teach the user interface. The last part of the book introduces some new technology of the .Net 3.5 as WPF, LINQ and XAML at a superficial level, I apreciated that because I didn't know nothing about this, I found the WindowsForms and .ASP chapters also superficial, but well, may be some readers don't know about it. The chapters on Threads and Streams are well explained and I'm happily surprised the author decided to include this advanced concepts. I think the container classes (Dictionaries and Arrays) deserves more pages and more performance advices. The book has few typographical errors, as a capital letter where it should be lower-case, fortunately they were not in the source code.

Good Book

This book is an easy read and is filled with good examples and explanations. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to get a basic knowledge of C#.