>>>>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 That's three major versions out of date.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.
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>What I mean is, the basics don't change. The approach you might take now because of new language features may make things easier and may have built on top of those features, but it's not like the "old" way doesn't still work and isn't still applicable in some cases (and may give you a good foundation as to why the heck someone did things that convoluted way vs. the "easy" way). I wasn't suggesting that be the only book they read on the subject (far from it, actually), but as an online reference (esp. for someone coming from a VFP mindset) it's still a decent suggestion.

OK, fair enough.