I know a little bit about C#, but now I really want to learn it, so I've decided to get a good book to teach myself.
I have the enough money to buy only one book, which book on C# 3.0 should I buy?

 

Frankly, I would make use of the documentation that's freely available on MSDN to start with, as well as the thousands of free tutorials you can find with the help of Google.

 

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Mikesdotnetting:

Frankly, I would make use of the documentation that's freely available on MSDN to start with, as well as the thousands of free tutorials you can find with the help of Google.

 

 

I agree with Mike, however if you really need a book to start with, go for Murach's ASP.NET 3.5 Web Programming with C# 2008 at http://www.murach.com/books/acs8/index.htm

There is a wealth of free tutorials that it could take you months to work through it all.

 

Try "ASP.NET 3.5 Enterprise Application Development with Visual Studio 2008"

varallov:

Try "ASP.NET 3.5 Enterprise Application Development with Visual Studio 2008"

 

It's hardly a C# book, is it?  

 

It is an ASP.NET book but everything is written in C#.  The business layer and data layer are written in C# and could be used by either a web app or a windows forms app.  There is plenty of sample code regarding LINQ to SQL, partial classes, extension methods, oo patterns, etc.

varallov:

It is an ASP.NET book but everything is written in C#.

 

Does it explain C#?  Such as what variables are, the fundamentals of OOP in C#, control of flow, collections, generics, delegates, exception handling etc? Or is it that the code samples happen to be in C#?  The questioner wants a book to help him or her learn C# specifically.

I've got loads of books on all apsects of the .NET framework where the code samples are in C#, but I wouldn't offer them to someone wanting to learn how the language works. I might, if I had written one of them, but that might be seen as shameless plugging.

  Pro C# 2008 and the NET 3.5 Platform Fourth Edition

 

This book is handy.

 

But for  beginners  I prefer 

Beginning ASP .NET 3.5 in C# 2008 Second Edition

 

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Apress C# Illustrated & Head First C#. Trust me it took me where I am now.  Google them.