Presenting C#

This book is not for everybody. It would be best for experienced programmers who already kno and object oriented programming lanaguage well. In about 200 pages it brings you upto speed with C# and most of its features that you'll use extensively. It covers data types, control statements, event handling, indexers, COM interop, configuration and deployment-pretty much everything at a high-level. I will definitely recommend it for a first read.

Really good! Two gripes, one minor, one major: 1. Major: where are the excercises!!! K & R C has them, Stroustrup's C++ has them, Arnold's Java has them. This book would be in their league if it just had good excercises! 2. Minor: lots of typos in the last three chapters.

Even though this book is fairly small, we have to remember that C# is not publicly available yet either. The price of the book also reflect it's small size.Having that in mind, this book will bring you a great heads-up on what's coming on with NGWS and C#. I would recommand this book to any C++ programmers that are looking in the future for a similar language.But the book is also explained well enough in order for VB programmers to feel confident in what they are reading and what the differences will be. And for those VB/ASP(VBScript) programmers, this book will give you a great insight for the next major language that ASP+ will be using since the ASP+ compiler was done with C# (yup, not more VBScript; VB, C#, and other, but no scripting anymore).The author seems knowledgable enough to both know VB & C++, and now C# as well. This is more than encouraging.

Since C# is such a new language I wanted something more than the marketing hype and less than the mountains of documentation. This book provided that to me. It jumps right into the meat of the language and teaches what you should know without making you read through pages of opinion, and provides plenty of examples that programmers can apply to their own language and put to use immediately. It is cleanly written, and really provides a good quickstart to C#.

This book was handed out to all of the attendees at Microsoft's PDC in July. It is a very nice introduction to C#, assuming you are familiar with C++. I would urge you to read Jeffrey Richter's forthcoming book on NGWS first (they handed out a preprint of the first three chapters). Richter does a great job of laying the foundation that C# builds upon. The two books should complement each other nicely. The language C# itself deserves 5 stars. If you have ever tried to use COM from C/C++, and suffered from "VB envy", you will think you have died and gone to heaven. The new environment is very clean and well thought out. OOPS is finally poised to deliver on all of those old promises about code reuse and programmer productivity. By the way, if you are coming from a Java environment, this book will be pretty frustrating. Java is never mentioned. I think a short chapter summarizing the differences between Java and C# is crying out to be added. That is why I marked the book down to 4 stars.