>>>Why do so many people keep recommending a .NET book that came out in 2002? That's three major versions out of date.
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>>The basics don't change. It's a pretty reasonable overview of them, esp. for free.
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>Some of them do. I took one course written to .NET version 1 and it covered some material that was very convoluted, because generics weren't in the language yet.

How is your conversion going Mike.?

I did some .Net middle of last year trying to get myself up to speed. I've had to put it away for a few months because of other commitments now I'm back at it and alarmed how much I've forgotten. :-(

Still I was enjoying trying to use new controls to minimize the need to write code.