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Sams Teach Yourself Visual C#® 2008 in 24 Hours

James Foxall

Starter Kit

DVD includes Visual C#® 2008 Express Edition

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you will be up and running with Visual C# 2008. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds upon the previous one, allowing you to learn the essentials of Visual C# from the ground up.

By the Way notes present interesting pieces of information.

Did You Know? tips offer advice or teach an easier way to do something.

Watch Out! cautions advise you about potential problems and help you steer clear of disaster.

Learn how to...

• Use the powerful design environment of Visual Studio 2008

• Design a feature-rich interface using components such as tree views and tabs

• Create robust applications using modern error handling

• Draw fast graphics using GDI+

• Build a database application using ADO.NET

• Distribute a Visual C# 2008 application

James Foxall is vice president of Tigerpaw Software, Inc. (www.tigerpawsoftware.com), a Bellevue, Nebraska, Microsoft Certified Partner specializing in commercial database applications. He manages the development, support, training, and education of Tigerpaw CRM+, an award-winning application that automates contact management, marketing, service and repair, proposal generation, inventory control, and purchasing. Tigerpaw has more than 20,000 licensed users in 27 countries. Foxall’s experience in creating certified Office-compatible software has made him an authority on application interface and behavior standards. In addition to being a well-known author, James is an international speaker on Microsoft technologies, has taught at the college level, and contributes to several journals.

DVD Includes:

• Microsoft® Visual C#® 2008 Express Edition

On the Web:

• Register your book at informit.com/title/9780672329906 for access to author code, examples, updates and corrections as they become available.

Category: Microsoft Programming

Covers: Visual C# 2008

User Level: Beginning

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 6 Ratings

Visual C# 2008 in in 24hrs | Excellent Book - 2009-01-03
Reviewer Rating:
Sams Teach Yourself Visual C# 2008 in 24 Hours: Complete Starter Kit (Sams Teach Yourself -- Hours)

This is a beginner's book and is well written, James Foxall starts us with a real life program that makes sense, and not the usual "Hello, World" exercise. In the first hour he teaches how to build a Picture Viewer Program and not only stops there with the Picture Viewer Program, he continues to teach new skills that builds on that program.This is a great book and I recommend it to anyone new to the C# language.

Very good book for beginners and reference - 2008-08-18
Reviewer Rating:
I found this book to be very well written and informative. He starts at a level almost anyone can understand and expands from there, covering event driven programming, good examples. I specially liked the section on publishing your applications.

Excellent Starter for C# Programming - 2009-05-19
Reviewer Rating:
James Foxall's guide for new C# programmers really hit the spot, at least for me. I have experience with many languages over the years, but had no call to look at C# until recently (my experience was mainly in midrange and mainframe systems, but did some Java many moons ago) and needed to get up to working pace FAST.

Foxall's book provided clarity of writing with useful code examples. I would recommend using this with other, more comprehensive texts, such as C# in a Nutshell or one of Jesse Liberty's C# guides, but Foxall's is the doco that got me up and running in a few days.

I am unsure how good it would be for someone without any programming experience at all, but that wasn't my concern when purchasing the book. It served my purpose well.

Good book but ... - 2009-10-09
Reviewer Rating:
I found this book to be very helpful. It is easy reading and well organized. The subject I found to be lacking was PRINTING. It covers printing images and printing text which is fine. But I had hoped it would have covered printing program generated graphics using a bitmap. I was able to find help elsewhere but it would have been much better for me if the book had covered it. All things considered, you can not go wrong buying this book.

Love it! - 2009-06-12
Reviewer Rating:
THE book on C# for the rest of us! Do yourself a favor and get it NOW!!!

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