Free Ebook on C# Programming

christophw writes "The programmers of SharpDevelop (better known to the /. crowd will be its sibling MonoDevelop) together with the publisher Apress made the book Dissecting a C# Application - Inside SharpDevelop available as a freely downloadable PDF document (no, no registration required). So if you want to judge for yourself if one can build an application of scale with .NET (or Mono for that matter), you now have a 500+ pages book for the holiday reading season (or the virtual bookshelf)."

Comments

Shameless self-promo

[prostoalex]

Free tech books
Large collection of free online books at UPenn (not just tech)

Re:Shameless self-promo

[Kelerain]

I'd just like to note
"- E-mail required to download the single 500-page PDF file."
Isn't quite true. If you uncheck 'Subscribe to Apress Newsletter' then hit download, it will let you by, without an email address.

And I *love* your site by the way. I've used several of those resources already and forwarded it to my academic advisor, who forwarded it to the entire CSET program. (small program though). Keep up the great work!

Re:Shameless self-promo

[prostoalex]

This one is not really clean in terms of copyright. It's a copy of Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days from Sams, and I am not aware of Sams ever releasing any of their stuff into public domain. All the books on my site are clean.

Using SharpDevelop for about a week

[Omega1045]

I have been taking SharpDevelop for a test drive for the last week. I have been developing C#/.NET apps for the last 2 or 3 years with Visual Studio. I have found that VS.NET does a pretty good job, but has some big, bad bugs when you run into them (very occasionally for me).

I have found SharpDevelop to be very nice. The environment is very, very similar to VS.NET. It has a very professional look and feel, and I have found it a nice platform for building C# apps.

The only part missing in SharpDevelop is the ability to add "Web References", or references to XML SOAP resources. VS.NET automajically builds local interface classes and adds them to your project when you reference a XML SOAP resource, so that you have local classes and functions to call on. In turn, these call on the SOAP functions over the network. You do not need to know anything about the inner workings of the SOAP protocol to call upon remote functions.

Other than that missing piece, SharpDevelop is very fully featured and has yet to crash. Make sure to read the FAQ on their site if it does crash the first time you try to run it after install - their is a bug in the installer.