Rating:  - Unquestionably a good first C# book
If you are familiar with OOP/C++/Java and want to pick up main C# concepts in a hurry, get this book. Although I did read Tom Archer's "Inside C#" before this one, and some tutorials on the net, I think this book deserves to be the first C# book for a beginner or an intermediate programmer. It has a decent aggregation & coherent explanantions of all the major C# topics and uses Visual Studio.NET IDE in its examples (which I think is really important for a C# book). One minor drawback is that some important topics(like Web Services and .NET Remoting) are given just a cursory treatment. But I guess, such vast topics merit devoted books just for those. Beware however, I came across 2 critical bugs - Ch 12, first page it says method signature is composed of method name,return type and parameter list (actually its just the parameter list and method name) and on page 794, chapter on ADO.NET it says to use Fill method on DataSet object to synchronize changes made to the DataSet with Database(in reality you should use Update method). It even gives an introduction to ASP.NET and ADO.NET but you have to look for other sources to learn those technologies well.
Overall, its a good book to invest your money and time in.
Rating:  - Get this book if you want to learn C#
I got this book about a month ago and found it to be the best book on C# currently available. It teaches the C# language from scratch, and also teaches Active Server Pages .NET and VS .NET.
Highly recommended if you want to learn C# and .NET together.
Rating: - Deserves 6 stars!
No question this is the best book on C# out there. Section 1 teaches the core C# language. Section 2 teaches advanced C# programming. Section 3 teaches .NET programming, like ASP.NET and ADO.NET. This is really great value for money and I use this book on a daily basis. I have other C# books, but this one is the only one actually use.
Rating: - After You've Bought The Others ...
After the initial $200.00 worth of Microsoft Press "Let's Print Help and Sell it". I bought this book along with it's companion "Mastering C# Database Programming".
I've had both of them for about a week and they've paid for themselves.
The Best C# books out there; trust me, I've just about bought them all.
Rating: - Deserves more than 5 stars
This is the best book on C# and object oriented programming I've read. The book is clear and contains practical real world examples, which are well explained.
The book goes one better than all the other books I've seen on C#. It contains advanced C# and .NET programming techniques such as web services and database programming.
If you buy only one C# book, I recommend this one.
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