Re: Slightly Off Topic: .NET books

2010-08-07 Thread Mark Rathwell
> My copy of Third Edition covers C# 3.0. Sorry about that, I just copied and pasted your entry, I have Second Edition. On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Dan Moniz wrote: > On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:49 -0400, "Mark Rathwell" > wrote: > > > +1 for: > > > > _The C# Programming Language, 3rd Edition_

Re: Slightly Off Topic: .NET books

2010-08-07 Thread Dan Moniz
On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:49 -0400, "Mark Rathwell" wrote: > +1 for: > > _The C# Programming Language, 3rd Edition_ by Anders Hejlsberg, Mads > Torgersen, Scott Wiltamuth, and Peter Golde > > Pretty decent book, but I'm not sure if it's been updated since 2.0 (a > lot of cool stuff came in 3.0 and 4

Re: Slightly Off Topic: .NET books

2010-08-06 Thread Mark Rathwell
+1 for: _The C# Programming Language, 3rd Edition_ by Anders Hejlsberg, Mads Torgersen, Scott Wiltamuth, and Peter Golde Pretty decent book, but I'm not sure if it's been updated since 2.0 (a lot of cool stuff came in 3.0 and 4.0 [LINQ, implicit type (inference), initializers, extension methods,

Re: Slightly Off Topic: .NET books

2010-08-06 Thread dmiller
We have a ten-week program for experienced developers moving to the .NET platform. Our recommended text is Troelson's "Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, Fifth Edition". http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430225491 All 1752 pages of it. It has a lot of things you won't need for understanding

Re: Slightly Off Topic: .NET books

2010-08-06 Thread Dan Moniz
On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:33 -0700, "Sean Devlin" wrote: > Are there any good .NET books you guys could recommend? I'm looking > for a range of resources. I don't need "C# in 21 days" or "C# for > dummies", but something an experienced Java hacker could start out > with, similar to Core Java. Als