Not likely to be confused with a pocket guide, unless one happens to be a brontosaurus in chinos, this comprehensive guide to C# and the world of Windows, Internet and Web programming with Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET 2.0 platform presents the appropriate technologies to software developers and IT professionals. For this edition the authors have updated their pedagogy as well as their technology and have included several new case studies. They start early on classes and objects, then move quickly to control statements, methods, arrays, object oriented programming, polymorphism, exception handling, graphical user interface concepts, multithreading, strings, characters, regular expressions, graphics and multimedia, files and streams, extensible markup language, database, SQL, ADO.NET, ASP.NET 2.0, web forms and web controls, web services, networking, data structures, generics, and collections. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Read Less