Presenting C# (Other Sams) [Paperback]

Christoph Wille (Author)

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C#(C Sharp) is a simple, modern, object-oriented and type-safe programming language that provides the simplicity of Visual Basic with the power of C++. Written by Christoph Wille, one of only a handful of developers with early access to this exciting new language, this book covers the C# language from the ground up with rich coding examples, and expert insight into issues you will need to understand to fully take advantage of the power of C#. Presenting C# assumes you are already familiar with key programming concepts such as variables, and programming constructs. With this concise, code-intensive guide, you can get up to speed on Microsoft's new C# language, and begin creating next-generation applications and Web services today.

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C#(C Sharp) is a simple, modern, object-oriented and type-safe programming language that provides the simplicity of Visual Basic with the power of C++. Written by Christoph Wille, one of only a handful of developers with early access to this exciting new language, this book covers the C# language from the ground up with rich coding examples, and expert insight into issues you will need to understand to fully take advantage of the power of C#. Presenting C# assumes you are already familiar with key programming concepts such as variables, and programming constructs. With this concise, code-intensive guide, you can get up to speed on Microsoft's new C# language, and begin creating next-generation applications and Web services today.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 216 pages
• Publisher: Sams; illustrated edition edition (July 17, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672320371
• ISBN-13: 978-0672320378
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,787,828 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice introduction to the future, July 19, 2000

By	Clark Hodder (Omaha, NE USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Presenting C# (Other Sams) (Paperback)

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.

20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Yes Presenting C-Sharp, that's what it is!, November 14, 2000

By	Darren Neimke (QLD Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Presenting C# (Other Sams) (Paperback)

Everybody I highly recommend that you buy this book IF you would like to have C# *PRESENTED* to you by Chroistopher Wille.

Although having said that you could also download the .NET runtime package from Microsoft and get all of this information (and more) for FREE.

I couldn't believe, as I read this book, that one man could Copy|Paste an entire book.

Buy this book ONLY if you NEED the tax deduction, otherwise buy a real .NET book.

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Small but concise presentation, August 10, 2000

By	Maxime Bombardier - See all my reviews

This review is from: Presenting C# (Other Sams) (Paperback)

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.