Rating:  - decent beginner's tutorial
If you just want to spend the bucks to quickly get started with C# without understanding it much, this book will help. It covers a lot of ground fast, but very much on the surface. Unfortunately, examples often do not prove the point and events example was more erroneus than helpful. And this book is virtually useless later on as a reference material, because the material is not well organized and depth is missing.
Rating:  - Great book
I recently had to get up to speed on C# fast for a graduate course I was taking and I bought this book. I found this book to be a great primer for the language. Coverage of the basics of the language is very throrough; with the one exception of somewhat weak coverage of collections. Oberg's explanations and examples are simple, clear, and to the point throughout the book. By the end of the book Oberg has you coding a multi-threaded banking program, and it barely feels like work! If you are serious about learning to program in C#, get this book!!!
Rating: - Foundations for OOP, C#, and .NET Framework
This is the only C# book I currently own, but after reading the reader reviews, this one seemed a good choice. It is 2 weeks later, and I have finished going through the book and the downloaded code examples that come along with the book. There is not much I can add to all the praise the other readers have given this author and this book, but let me say, "I agree!".
I think this book is the best "Intro to ... " book I've ever read. I needed to not only learn C# and the .NET Framework, but OOP in general. Robert J. Oberg's Introduction to C# Using .NET book teaches all these things in a very natural way that makes it easy. I've learned more reading this book over the past week than I learned in the $1700 5 day Intro to C# class I attended using Microsoft training material.
Rating: - Very thorough coverage - I don't feel [unintelligent]
This is a great book to learn C# from. I have previous C/C++ experience so a lot of the early stuff was pretty simple and straight forward. Having said that, I did not feel that the early pieces were in any way condescending, which is what I have found large portions of other books on this subject to be. I'm not [unintelligent] and I don't like an introductory book to treat me as if I am. In other words, don't read this book if you are looking for a "complete idiots guide" or a "C# for dummies" style book.
You should also not be misled into thinking that this book covers much of .NET. It doesn't. It touches on some of the basics, but there is a lot more that you will need to get by reading the book that I regard as part 2 - "Application Development using C# and .NET". Although the two books have a certain amount of overlap, I believe that it is worth owning both.
I am adding these comments following further work with the book. I had several extra questions that I needed to ask of the author. Dr Oberg was absolutely terrific with his personal responses. Not only that, he pointed me at the exercises that are available off the Object Innovations web-site. These definitely add a lot of value to this book so I would encourage anyone using this book to get hold of that additional material.
In every sense, this book is the Kernighan and Ritchie for C#.
Rating: - Best book for learning C#
The book is best one I have read about C#. Its logic very nice and explanation very clear. Reading it is an enjoyment for me. It will give you a solid foundation of object oriented programming.
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