Thoughts on Good, Current .NET Books

[Nate Bross]

Can anyone recommend some good, current, books for beginning C# and .NET 3.5?

 

Any thoughts on these?

 

1) http://www.goldengatebookstore.com/rel/v2_viewupc.php?storenr=333&upc=047019135X&affnr=-2610

 

2) http://www.jr.com/sams-books/pe/SAS_0672329905/

 

3) http://www.amazon.com/2008-NET-Platform-Fourth-Windows-Net/dp/1590598849

[cugone]

Wrox and Apress in my experience are very good books.

 

In addition, most anything published from Microsoft Press, O'Reilly, and Thompson Course Technology are also very informative.

 

However, do NOT, under any circumstances, get anything in the "Shelly Cashman Series" from Thompson Course Technology, the two head writers are horrible at what they do.

[Nate Bross]

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind.

 

Out of personal curiosity, could you elaborate on why the those two writers are

horrible?

[cugone]

Because they explain next to nothing; just "this is the code to do this thing not related at all to the text I've written" or "here, practice doing this thing I haven't talked about AT ALL or given examples of AT ALL."