Learning C# 2005, 2nd Edition

Get Started with C# 2005 and .NET Programming
(Completely Updated for Visual Studio 2005)

For novice and student programmers, getting up to speed with Microsoft’s premier language for building Windows and web-based applications is now easier than ever. In this completely revised edition of Learning C# 2005, best-selling C# author Jesse Liberty and coauthor Brian MacDonald have delivered a compact tutorial packed with new features designed to make your first encounter with the C# language as productive as possible.

New features include:

• Summaries and quizzes at the end of each chapter that test your understanding of the chapter’s content before moving on to new material
• More than 100 fully debugged programming exercises with solutions
• Two entirely new chapters that show you how to use C# 2005 to create Windows and web applications
• Every chapter has been rewritten for clarity and updated to reflect changes to C# 2005, including:
• The new Visual C# 2005 Interactive Development Environment (IDE), the tool of choice for professional C# programmers
• Generics and the new type-safe collections generics provide
• Partial classes and their use in separating tool-generated code from your application code
• Anonymous methods, foreach loops, and other C# 2005 changes you need to know to be an effective programmer

Learning C# 2005, Second Edition also includes references to many print and online resources to help you move on once you’ve mastered the basics. In addition, author Jesse Liberty provides a companion web site (www.libertyassociates.com) with complete source code and solutions for all examples and exercises, as well as answers to frequently asked questions, errata, and a free discussion group for ongoing support.

About the Authors
Jesse Liberty, "Silverlight Geek", is a Microsoft Senior Program Manager in the Silverlight Development Division where he is responsible for the creation of tutorials, videos and other content to facilitate the learning and use of Silverlight. Even before joining Microsoft, Jesse was well known in the industry in part because of his many bestselling books, including O'Reilly Media's Programming .NET 3.5, Programming C# 3.0, Learning ASP.NET with AJAX and the soon to be published Programming Silverlight. He has over two decades experience writing software, consulting and training, with stints as at AT&T as a Distinguished Software Engineer and at Citibank as a Vice President in the Information Division.

Brian MacDonald has edited programming and networking books for major publishers on topics ranging from securing Windows servers to PHP web programming to running an eBay business. He also coauthored O'Reilly's Learning C# 2005 and Learning ASP.NET 2.0 with AJAX.