Rating:  - Clear and Concise
I am about 2/3 of the way through the book, and I have done this in one sitting. It has some rough areas, such as the section on delegates, which I found a bit difficult to understand, but I imagine that if I go over those sections again it will be clear.
Tomorrow I go through the section on Visual Studio 2005. I have been using the free Visual Studio 2008 from the microsoft web site. So I am interested to see what the VS section has to offer in the book.
5 stars for a thoroughly painless and readable exposition of the topic.
Rating:  - Finally, more than just building useless forms!
While trying to get my head around OOP and some of the concepts, I was really getting sick and tired of all of ridiculous "Step-By-Step" and other intro books that are out there. If I want to build a form with a textbox that says "Hello world!", it shouldn't take you 400 bloated pages to explain to me how to do it.
This book actually explains OOP in a workable and applicable way. Yes, the publisher did a disservice with color choices and the index (and yes, the typos) but this book is miles ahead of the other intro books in teaching what you actually need to know to work in an OOP environment. If you're all about content in your books, this is the place to go. If you like nice colors and pictures, and you can't get passed typos, I'd look elsewhere.
Rating: - Clearly written - C# finally clicked!
Coming from a strong classic VBScript background I've struggled with C# and the .NET platform. After reading through Jeffery's book, everything finally 'clicked' for me. I'd rate this book more for the beginner than anything else; if you're looking for advanced topics, look elsewhere.
The first half of the book has several walk-through's of basic C# syntax and moves into more intermediate walk-through's of working with Classes and an introduction into OO methodology. The second half of the book is focused on working within the Visual Studio IDE.
Overall the book has very clear examples; well written (so what if there are a few typos); and with a writing style that is easy to understand.
Definitely recommended if you are learning C#.
Rating:  - Don't waste your money
I don't say "don't waste your time" as I'm sure you won't spend too much of it on this book. I was foolish enough to read almost all of it, all the way hoping it would start getting serious.
Very poorly written. Lots of typos, the kind resulting in valid English words, just not the right words for the context. So, the text was definitely run through a spell-checker but I doubt any human professional editor was involved. A friend trying to tell you the plot of a play or a movie he liked, may get excited and wordy about some moments but half-forget or completely forget some others. This is what the book's style and structure remind.
And one more thing: it's rather difficult to read the code listings with their non-quite-black forecolor against medium-gray background.
Rating: - Excelent C# Intro book
If your like me you need to know what "tools" a language has to offer, and the syntax of usage. This book teaches the basics very well, while providing examples that will be seen often in programming. It provides enough information on ASP, XML, etc to give you an understanding of how building for these services works, and I picked up the rest from helpfiles/playing around.
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