Rating:  - Not bad, but I'd put some of the steps in different order
This was a good book, but I thought they introduced some complex concepts too early in the book. (Overloaded operators come immediately to mind.) Each concept is covered well, but it isn't really step by step. If you already know C#, then this will get you up to speed on the new material quickly, but for a C# beginner, there are better books.
Rating:  - Excellent Book for all
I am a C++ coder doing white box QA testing, after reading about C# thought it might prove useful in developing QA Tools for testing backend processes, got this book on a whim and it has proved to be very useful, well written, and very good examples, although I have a OOP background I found the chapters on OOP could be helpful for the beginner as well as us "know it alls," and would recommend this to my colleges and friends.
Rating: - Excellent C# learning book!
I'm a long time developer with even a Microsoft Visual Basic .NET exam successfully completed but I wanted to transition over to C#. In preparing for the VB.NET exam I had some decidedly mixed experiences with the Microsoft Step By Step books - so much so that I tended to avoid them. I have a number of good books on C# but I was actually able to look at this before I purchased it here on Amazon. I am about halfway through the book and will tell you that I am very impressed. The material starts easily and ramps up fast to where I feel I am into the substance of the material and its not over my head. The book appears to cover the full range of material that I think I need to be able to move over into Visual Studio 2005 to begin developing my own personal commercial web site. Why a non-programmer would ever get into C# .NET programming is beyond me but for anybody else with any kind of programming background and who wants to go into C# and the .NET development environment I highly recommend this book.
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