Free C# Books

Dissecting a C# Application: Inside SharpDevelop

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:07:05 -0400

Learn advanced .NET programming techniques by getting an insider's look at a complete application!

The developers who created SharpDevelop give you the inside track on application development with a guided tour of the source code for SharpDevelop. They show you the most important code features and explain how you can use these techniques in your own projects. You will gain valuable experience of building an application on this scale, learning from the decisions, mistakes, problems, and solutions that led to the current version of SharpDevelop.

.NET Book Zero (C# for C or C++ devs)

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:07:05 -0400

What the C or C++ Programmer Needs to Know About C# and the .NET Framework

Microsoft Smartphone Programming

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:07:05 -0400

This (sort of) book is a collection of different articles combined under related chapters

COM and .NET Interoperability

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:07:05 -0400

COM and .NET Interoperability provides a complete overview of the process of building .NET applications that interact (interoperate) with existing COM code. Before digging into that critical topic, author Andrew Troelsen offers a concise overview of the COM architecture and provides examples using various COM frameworks (C++, ATL, and VB 6.0) as well as the core .NET managed languages (C# and VB .NET).

After covering the preliminaries, the book explores numerous issues that arise in interoperability, including interacting with the Win32 API, dynamically generating source code via System.CodeDOM, creating serviced (COM+) components using managed code, manually editing (and recompiling) .NET metadata, and the process of constructing custom COM/.NET conversion utilities. Both intermediate and advanced developers will welcome the practical information they need to quickly work with COM and COM+ in .NET applications, and learn how to create .NET components that are COM compatible.