Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Express Edition: Build a Program Now! (PRO-Developer)

By Patrice Pelland

In this lively, eye-opening, hands-on book, all you need is a computer and the desire to learn how to program with Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Express Edition. Featuring a full edition of the software, this fun and highly visual guide walks you through a complete programming project-a desktop weather-reporting application-from start to finish. You'll get an introduction to the Microsoft Visual Studio? development environment and learn how to put the lightweight, easy-to-use tools in Visual C# Express Edition to work right away-creating, compiling, testing, and delivering your first ready-to-use program. You'll get expert tips, coaching, and visual examples at each step of the way, along with pointers to additional learning resources. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735625425
• ISBN13: 9780735625426
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.1" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

Great for a totally newbie

I have to say that I am a newbie on C# and OOP and this book help me a lot to understand how to program and change the way I think when I have to program something. I never programed on a Object oriented language so this book help me a lot.

Great book for all developers

I purchased this book more to review, rather than learn; yet I ended up learning more than I thought I would. It's a great book for anyone interested in learning C# or Visual Studio, or anyone that needs to improve their skills. Keep in mind, that if your an experienced developer, with years of industry experience, this book may be to easy for you. For the rest, it's an easy to follow read, that makes C# fun. What makes...

pretty good.

A very practical approach to programming - dealing with the real nuts and bolts that you need to know if you are actually going to use the language in the real world. Not a lot of extraneous, esoteric theory, just practical information. This is an excellent first book for learning C#. Some of the data structures such as stacks, queues, and hash tables are not covered, as are some of the more subtle nuances of the inner...