Christian Gross 
Beginning C# 2008 [PDF ebook] 
From Novice to Professional

Three Applications: Learning .NET Fundamentals.- Writing a Calculator: Learning about .NET Numbers and Value Types.- A Multilingual Greeting ‘Oui, Yes, Ja’: Learning String Manipulations.- If Walks == Duck and Talks == Duck then is Duck: Learning about C# decisions and loops.- Making Your Application Tell You Something Is Wrong: Learning about C# Exception Handling.- The Case of the Rectangle That Did Not Want to be a Shape: Learning the basics of C# OO.- The Multi-National Tax Accountant: Learning more C# OO.- A Cash Register: Learning How To Manage Many Elements.- A Stock Trading Application: Learning About Delegates.- Controlling a Bakery Assembly Line: Learning about properties and indexers.- Saving the State of Your Program: Learning about file operations and object serialization.- Configuring Your Application: Learning about configuration files and XML processing.- The Decisive Stock Trading Application: Learning about software component abstraction using C# Generics.- Tag Team Threads: Learning more C# Generics and Threads.- Writing a Stock Simulation Application: Learning about C# Databases.- Pin the Tail On the Object: Learning about Implicit Local Types and Extensions methods.- Building a Just In Time Factory: Learning About Lambda Expressions.- A Programmatic Calculator: Learning About Anonymous Types.- Slicing and Dicing Stock Date: Learning About LINQ.- Putting Everything Together Into A Finished Application.

Christian Gross is a consultant with vast experience in the client/server world. He has consulted for Microsoft on DNA solutions, and he has held consulting positions with Daimler Benz, Microsoft, Nat West, and other major corporations. Gross was a contributor to Professional Active Server Pages, Professional SQL Server 6.5 Administration, Professional NT Internet Information Server Administration, and Programming Microsoft Windows 2000 Unleashed. He is the author of A Programmer’s Introduction to Windows DNA.