Reviews for Professional C# 2008 (Wrox Professional Guides)

1. C# 2008

   Rated 3 out of 5 stars, March 12th, 2010

   Reading this book will give an insight to C# although the emphasis is on using the command line. If you are using Visual Studio you will be just as well using the online help as there is a wealth of C# information, code example etc to be found on the internet. The early chapters in the book may be of use to an absolute beginner.

2. Informative and useful.

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, March 12th, 2010

   This book is both informative and useful. It functions well as either a training book or a handy reference book. I would recommend this book to new C# programmers and experienced C# programmers alike.

3. The c# bible

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, January 12th, 2010

   Provides a full and comprehensive view of the language broken down into manageable chunks.
   This isn't a book to start learning c#, rather the reader should have some appreciation of the language before making this endeavor.
   On the whole good learning and reference book.

4. A hefty and detailed tome

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, October 12th, 2009

   I purchased this book since I wanted to get to grips with C# a little more since I had been using VB .NET previously. As others have mentioned it is a large book and I approached it with some trepidation, but you soon realise that it's size is entirely necessary to cover the ever expanding .NET framework. Not only do you get the basics of C# in excellent detail, you also get chapters on WPF, WF, Winforms, and lots more besides. It's engaging and gives you everything you need to know to get started.

5. Great book!

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, September 12th, 2009

   I have been looking for a good book to learn c# for quite a while and I have to say that this is the best one on the market. It covers everything you need to know in order to start building complex and useful applications in c#. The book begins with a detailed discussion of what .NET really is and what it is good for. Next, you are presented with the basic syntax of c# as well as the new features of this incredible language. Then you will move on to OOP and along the way you will learn the key differences between c# and other languages like c++ or Visual Basic. Up next you will learn about collections, operators, delegates, events , ASP, SQL, ADO.NET, WPF and much much more. The authors use a nice and sometimes funny way to explain things with examples from real life, so you don't get bored when reading the book and this is nice to know, since most of the books out there usually adopt a formal and boring approach for the learning process. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn c# and it's cool features. This is a huge book (around 1700 pages) so be prepared for a great journey! Also, you should take into account that the authors assume the reader has a working knowledge of another programming language such as c++, Java, or Visual Basic. This knowledge will be required since most of the focus will be received by the new features of c# in relation with the ones inherited form the other languages. That being said, I shall conclude by saying: Buy the book! and Happy C# coding!