Hi, Steve
I would suggest to start with couple of books.
Petzold's Programming Windows with C# is very good to introduce you to C#,
some OO and main thing - relationship between .Net and Win32. If you are
familiar with this, next you need to decide how to proceed - Windows or ASP,
which is a bit different beast and style of programming. So, maybe Jeffrey
Richter Applied .Net Programming book can help you to decide where to move
next. Also - get .Net SDK or VS.Net . Both have very decent helps, which
give MS view on how to develop what and some samples, which sometimes are
really useful. If you hate both Petzold and Richter - take any MSPress book
on OO programming with .Net - VB or C#, which doesn't matter - and look
there for basic information.
However, as I see it .Net poses 2 issues for any person wanting to program
efficiently in this environment
- you must be able to use effectively OO principles
- you better understand what is really under all these components and
namespaces - most of them have direct relation to native Win32 API. You will
see that in order to be really proficient on Windows platform you will need
to know both - .Net and Win32 (Platform SDK).
My 2p
Alex
