Recommend a c# forms book please

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Patrick Kirk

I see three choices for C# Windows.Forms.

1. Petzold - Programming Microsoft Windows with C#
2. Sells - Windows Forms Programming in C#
3. Brown - Windows Forms Programming with C#

Can anyone recommend a best book for a VB guy moving to C#?

Patrick
 
Hi Patrick. My base knowledge was VB. Upon learning C# I decided to start
from the ground up and completely forget VB.

Firstly I can tell you that I own Chris Sells book. It is very good and has
my recommendation *but* I think if you current have no C# knowledge, I
strongly recommend you buy a book to learn it and it's concepts before you
move onto Windows Forms. I feel I am an infinitely better C# developer than
I ever was with VB because of it.

-If you do need a recommendation for a language book then let me know,
otherwise Sell's book gets 8/10

p.s. I have not read the other books so I cannot give my opinion on those.


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Br,
Mark Broadbent
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Mark said:
Hi Patrick. My base knowledge was VB. Upon learning C# I decided to start
from the ground up and completely forget VB.
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Thanks. I've got the C# Step by Step book which is OK.
 
my favorite is my Osborne "The Complete Reference C#" by Herbert Schildt.
What works for one doesnt always work for another though, I tend to browse a
bookshop these days rather than just hopping straight on Amazon.

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Br,
Mark Broadbent
mcdba , mcse+i
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Patrick said:
I see three choices for C# Windows.Forms.

1. Petzold - Programming Microsoft Windows with C#
2. Sells - Windows Forms Programming in C#
3. Brown - Windows Forms Programming with C#

Can anyone recommend a best book for a VB guy moving to C#?
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Unless

a) you care an awful lot about GDI+ (Petzold)
b) you like to have a book that teaches Windows Forms by building a complete
application rather than using many small code samples (Brown)

Sells is the way to go.

Cheers,
 
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