Hello folks

Looking for a decent book (hopefully downloadable as PDF) or website where I can start learning C# in Visual Studio 2005

I already develop web apps using VB.NET in VS2005, but really need to cross-train to C#.

Any ideas welcome, thanks.

Looking for a decent book (hopefully downloadable as PDF) or website where I can start learning C# in Visual Studio 2005

I quite like the Dummies series of books and the C# one seems fairly good and comprehensive. Google seems to also turn up plenty of good tutorials. Microsoft document the API really well on the web and this can also be hooked into VS for code-completion. One thing to be aware of is that VS2005 is a couple of releases backlevel so you'll be limited to .NET 2.0 framework (with maybe some 3.0 extensions) so some of the material covered in courses may not be available to you - it should flag that up though.

One thing it's also possible to do is compile your VB application and then decompile it into C#. Quite neat, although I've not used it extensively.

Good luck

Chris

Cant remember how I learnt it, think I just started messing around. From a VB background too.

Take a look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/vstudio/hh388566

As you've used .NET, it may be all you need to get started

I also have an interest in learning this for the future. Feeling a tad behind but having enough trouble with Linux and Perl at the moment to keep me busy!

Thanks for the suggestions and links.

Found a couple of online code converts which have helped a tiny little bit too

http://www.developerfusion.com/tools/convert/vb-to-csharp/

http://www.carlosag.net/tools/codetranslator/

Decided really need to go look in bookshop before shelling out $ for a reference, prefere paper to PDF too TBH.

Overseas at mo, so stuck with VS2005 on my laptop.

My development machines back home have VS2008.

Does annoy me a bit that I'm having to move to C#, what with language-interop supposedly being a feature of VS. But just no serious support for VB.NET anymore, and all employers want is C# :(

Check this out, Microsoft initiative that will get you free copies of some products for 3 years. Assuming you are a developer/small business.

http://www.microsoft.com/web/websitespark/

Most useful in this case being Visual Studio 2010, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Web Server 2008.

7 sharps, no flats.