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What's a quick way to familiarize myself with C#, .NET framework, etc?

I just graduated college and will be starting working in about a month and I was asked to familiarize myself with C++, C#, .NET framework for NT Services and web services.

I'd appreciate recommendations on how to familiarize myself with these topics (books? internet links?) in a short time span. I don't expect to be an expert on it in a month but I don't want to be clueless either. I already know C++ and I consider myself to be fairly proficient in it and I know the basics of C# even though I haven't used it all that much. For C# I do own a book called O'Reilley Programming C#.

Thanks!

Solution

  • I would start by pulling down Microsoft's Visual Studio Express products. Your O'Reilly book is a perfectly good book to start with.

    Start reading blogs and listening to podcasts, to begin to familiarize yourself with all of the technologies out there that surround c#. You will be very excited about what you can learn. Here are some of the better ones:

    http://www.hanselminutes.com/

    http://www.dotnetrocks.com/

    http://channel9.msdn.com/

    http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/

    http://weblogs.asp.net/

    In addition, the MSDN library is an invaluable resource. You can almost always find what you need there. This is where the reference for the entire .NET framework lives.

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/default.aspx

    Happy hunting!