learn C#

http://www.charlespetzold.com/dotnet/index.html
What the C or C++ Programmer Needs to Know About C# and the .NET Framework
by Charles Petzold

A 267-page 1.2 megabyte PDF. I have no idea what PDF product he used but it’s friggin’ amazing to be able to do that.

I also ordered Petzold’s book Programming Microsoft Windows With C#.

So, sure, I can probably write anything I need to do using C and the Win32 API, but knowing C# and all its wizard-auto-generation could be useful for the times when I want to slap together a program for my own use and only have an hour to spare. (This way I also don’t have to worry about distribution of the .NET runtime bloatware.) I’m choosing this over Visual C++ because as far as I can tell the MFC is basically just C++ class wrappers around the Win32 API, which I’m learning anyway. Although, for this purpose, VB.NET might work as well.