Beginning C# 3.0 has been written from scratch, specifically for the new 'Orcas' version, by a well-respected author to teach beginners how to use the new framework to their best advantage. They will learn everything they need to know to get to grips with this cutting-edge technology. This is one of the first books to be published dealing with the Orcas technology for the beginning audience. Comprehensive and thorough - the book is tailored to turn an interested amateur into a competent, well-grounded, programmer.

"For anyone who's learning about C#, this book doesn't assume any prior knowledge of programming, of the .NET Framework, or of coding in general. It simply assumes that the reader is an intelligent person who wants to learn standard and important technology from the ground up."

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.