Good reputable C# tutorials for beginners

[copec]

Hi, I'm looking for good online tutorials for C# for beginners. If it matters I want to use it with WPF. Thanks.

modified on Thursday, July 30, 2009 4:18 PM

[Christian Graus]

You're looking for tutorials that teach you WPF ? Why don't you just buy a good book ?

Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

[copec]

Thanks for the reply. Being new to programming I'm here to ask experienced programmers what is good and what isn't.

[BillWoodruff]

Hi Copec, "Being new to programming I'm here to ask experienced programmers what is good and what isn't." I think you'll find a lot of great WPF tutorials and articles here on CodeProject in the writings of Sasha Barber, Marc Clifton (the man on XAML), Josh Smith, Pete O'Hanlon, and others : please look them up. While I am experienced as a programmer in C# and WinForms, I am very new to WPF : so I can only tell you what I have heard from someone who is very "deep" into WPF, and what I am finding valuable to me as I am plunging in to learning it myself. So you are warned :) A very talented WPF programmer I recently met who has published a well-received article here on WPF on CodeProject recently recommended Adam Nathan's book : Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed (Sams, 2007) to me, and I am finding it very valuable. Nathan is a senior software developer at MS, and his co-author was a lead developer on 3d for WPF (is Nathan still at MS ? Don't know : his blog is just a bunch of ads for his books). I am also reading Matthew McDonald's book on WPF : Pro WPF in C-Sharp 2008 - Windows Presentation Foundation with .NET 3.5, Second Edition; Matthew MacDonald (Apress, 2008) I have a very high opinion of every book of McDonald's I've read : I think his book : Pro .NET 2.0 Windows Forms and Custom Controls in C# (APress 2008) on WinForms and UserControls is superb. In terms of C# itself, independent of WinForms and WPF, I personally think Jessie Liberty's books for O'Reilly are the best including : Programming C# 3.0 (O'Reilly 2008) Visual C# 2005: A Developer's Notebook (O'Reilly 2005) ... edit ... and, I forgot to say Andrew Troelsen's latest : Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform, Fourth Edition Is the best I know of for "language theory." Good luck, Bill

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