Description: This completely revised edition of Learning C# offers thorough coverage of the latest version of the C# language (C# 3.0), scaled to a beginner's experience level. No previous programming experience is required; the authors start with the fundamentals, and work up through intermediate to advanced features. Along the way, you'll learn about the newest features of C# - AJAX is included in the chapter on ASP.NET, and there are three entirely new chapters covering LINQ, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and Silverlight. This completely revised edition of Learning C# offers thorough coverage of the latest version of the C# language (C# 3.0), scaled to a beginner's experience level. No previous programming experience is required; the authors start with the fundamentals, and work up through intermediate to advanced features. Along the way, you'll learn about the newest features of C# - AJAX is included in the chapter on ASP.NET, and there are three entirely new chapters covering LINQ, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and Silverlight.
Brief description: Jesse Liberty is a Microsoft Senior Program Manager where he is responsible for the creation of tutorials, videos and other content to facilitate the learning and use of Silverlight. Even before joining Microsoft, Jesse was well known in the industry in part because of his many bestselling books, including O'Reilly Media's Programming .NET 3.5, Programming C# 3.0, Learning ASP.NET with AJAX and the soon to be published Programming Silverlight.