Good .Net Book for intermediate C++ programmer?Looking for a C# / .NET book

APress, Andrew Troelsen "Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform", Fourth Editionit is the best from what I've seen

QuoteOriginally posted by: snovikAPress, Andrew Troelsen "Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform", Fourth Editionit is the best from what I've seenYes, I agree. It make a change from books that have lots of GUI examples.I like C# in a Nutshell, 3.0. With a few judicious examples you can fill in the details yourself, but you need to know what you are looking for. It's more of a reference whereas Troelsen is a learning book.

Also there is a free 900 page ebook "Thinking in C#" by Brucek Eckel and Larry OBrien - http://home.nycap.rr.com/aeugene/ticsharp_rc.pdf

QuoteOriginally posted by: asdAlso there is a free 900 page ebook "Thinking in C#" by Brucek Eckel and Larry OBrien - http://home.nycap.rr.com/aeugene/ticsharp_rc.pdfThis seems to based on C# 1.0. No chapters on Generics, for example, which came into being in C# 2.0.C# 3.0 has some important additions.

thanks, I will take a look at those.

QuoteGood .Net Book for intermediate C++ programmer?im also an intermediate C++. im now at the point of thinking shall i keep on leaning more c++, or, start learning c# / .net. i guess at some point all the legacy c++ code will be moved to c# ?. from reading around on the web it does not seem easy to wrap native c++ for use with .net , or are people doing this succesfully via c# or c++ / CLI. lots of jobs (quant developer type jobs) out there still say c++ , is this because its just to maintain old legacy code (quant algorithms), with the long term plan to move it to c# / .net. i must admit i do like c++, but often wonder a lot of time i thinking of all the rules i have to follow without actually doing much programming. i can see this language will take years to master, yet get the feeling if i'd spent the same amount of time learning c# or python my programs would have had all the bells and whistles. so, what is better? beome really good at c++ or start learning c# / .net. i reckon it will take me another 1.5 years to become good (i have been using it now for 2 years sel study, having read bruce eckels two volumes, both meyers books and both of sutters books, boost snippets also ). i was about to learn "modern c++" book by that greek guy next. and the design patterns Gof book.

I liked Applied Microsoft® .NET Framework Programming (Pro-Developer) , Jeffrey Richter but it was 5 years ago. it's probably outdated now