Welcome to C#, today's premiere programming language for the .NET platform, and the most exciting one. We're going to push the C# envelope in this book, working from the ground floor up through the advanced levels. This book has been designed to open up C# and make it more accessible than any other book can.
This is a programmer-to-programmer book, written to bring you up to speed in C# by giving you what you need without wasting time. Because this discussion is targeted to programmers, we're going to skip the in-depth explanations of elementary programming constructs like variables that you'd skip anyway. If you're a programmer, this book is written to give you exactly what you want to see when moving to C#—the good stuff, and only the good stuff.
There's as much C# crammed into this book as you need to get truly proficient. And getting you there is this book's goal.
Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003 Kick Start is a rapid-progression tutorial that presents the C# language to working programmers who are already familiar with another programming language or tool. This book speeds through basic concepts and focuses on practical examples showing the advantages of C# .NET 2003 in ASP programming, application design and creation, and .NET Web Services development. While Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003 Kick Start assumes no knowledge of C# or the .NET Framework, it skips the handholding and basic programming instruction associated with entry-level tutorials. Full of code examples, tips, and profession insights, this book is about maximum payoff with minimum effort for the working programmer who wants to use Visual C# .NET 2003 now.
About the Author
Steve Holzner is an award-winning author who has been writing about programming topics for over a decade. Using his trademark comfortable accessible, writing style, he's written 72 books on a variety of programming topics that have sold well over a million total copies. He's a former contributing editor of PC Magazine, graduated from MIT, and received his Ph.D. at Cornell. He's been on the faculty of both MIT and Cornell, and also teaches corporate seminars around the country.
His recent books include:
- Inside XML, 0-7357-1020-1, $49.99, New Riders, November 2000.
- Inside JavaScript, 0-7357-1285-9, $49.99, New Riders, August 2002.
- Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic .NET in 21 Days, Not Yet Published.