C# book

[ghale]

Hello everyone,
I've decided to make the right choise.

I need a good book (in english) on C#.

Someone can suggest me some good title? I prefer a book that I can buy online.

Any suggestion is welcome.

Thanks,
Piero

[agraham]

These are what I use all the time.

For the language you can't beat "The Complete Reference to C# 2.0" or "The Complete Reference to C# 3.0", both by Herbert Schildt depending upon the version of C# you are interested in.

To see how it fits with the Common Language Runtime "CLR via C#" by Jeffrey Richter.

There isn't much written for the Compact Framework but I have ".NET Compact Framework" by Andy Wigley and Stephen Wheelwright which covers CF 1.0 and its successor "Mobile Development Handbook" by Andy Wigley, Daniel Moth and Peter Foot which covers CF 2.0.

I buy from Free delivery worldwide on all books from The Book Depository

[ghale]

Hello agraham,
between "The Complete Reference to C# 2.0" and "The Complete Reference to C# 3.0",
which is better to buy?
Or I have to buy both?
One learned the basics, I'll start to develop on mobile.

[ghale]

BTW: "The Complete Reference to C# 3.0" isnt' available on the website you suggested, I've found "The Complete Reference to Professional SOA with Visual Studio 2005 (C# & VB 2005) .NET 3.0 (Paperback)" instead

[agraham]

The two books cover the different versions of C#. C# 2.0 came with Visual Studio 2005 which I use. C# 3.0 comes with Visual Studio 2008. You may as well get the version 3.0 I guess.

Originally Posted by ghale

BTW: "The Complete Reference to C# 3.0" isnt' available on the website you suggested,

Yes it is C# 3.0: The Complete Reference (Paperback) By (author) Herbert Schildt ISBN 13: 9780071588416 at The Book Depository for about 30 Euros

[ghale]

I don't want to start a flame war, but...

It's better VB 2008 or C# 3 for mobile development, in terms of how much time I can learn the language?

[ghale]

Originally Posted by agraham

The two books cover the different versions of C#. C# 2.0 came with Visual Studio 2005 which I use. C# 3.0 comes with Visual Studio 2008. You may as well get the version 3.0 I guess.

Yes it is C# 3.0: The Complete Reference (Paperback) By (author) Herbert Schildt ISBN 13: 9780071588416 at The Book Depository for about 30 Euros

BTW: Thank you!

[agraham]

Originally Posted by ghale

IIt's better VB 2008 or C# 3 for mobile development, in terms of how much time I can learn the language?

It's really your choice. There is no difference performance wise. I started in .NET using VB but I found that VB on .NET is too verbose and was getting in the way so I switched to C#. However I have written a lot of Ansi C (but not C++) in the past so I was familiar with the syntax. My advice would be to go with C#, that's what Basic4ppc is written in and that's what the optimising compiler produces.

[ghale]

Ok, thank you!

[moster67]

I bought this one:

Beginning Microsoft Visual C# 2008 (Paperback) By (author) Karli Watson, By (author) Christian Nagel, By (author) Jacob Hammer Pedersen, By (author) Jon D. Reid, By (author) Morgan Skinner, By (author) Eric White ISBN 13: 9780470191354 at The Book De