Free E-Books for C# Programming

An article with links for five free C# E-Books.

Learn how to write and compile C# programs, understand C# syntax, types, classes and their members, interfaces, arrays, and exception handling.

Aimed at the experienced C# programmer, this book presents a simple object-oriented interface to many of the classic combinatorial and graph searching algorithms.

No prior experience with these is necessary and many solved problems and applications are presented. The source code and algorithm library are available as a 700Kb download at http://www.lulu.com/content/2008403

An eight-part series of bit size PDF files providing instructions and associated source code/executable archive downloads showing how to program simple games using DirectX and C#.

Written by veteran author and programming guru Charles Petzold, Programming Windows phone 7 is a free 1,000 page tome, clocking in at nearly 40 MB PDF download plus 5 MB more for zipped up source code. Aimed at experienced C# developers, it shows how to create applications in Silverlight or using the XNA 2D framework. The download link page also has links to the create.msdn website where you can get free tools for Windows phone 7 development.

Joseph Albahari, author of the O'Reilly published C# 3.0 in a Nutshell has published a free 75 page E-book (in PDF) on threading in C# his website. You can read it online or download the E-Book.

Two XAML platforms WPF and Silverlight are both XAML based platforms with important differences between the two. This is a whitepaper detailing what is similar and different between the two platforms as well as how to code to get as much reuse as possible.