>>>After trying several with checkered results, I finally setttled on Deitel's C# 2008 for Programmers.
>>>It's a good book, but it will be a long while before I'm as comfortable with C# as I am with VFP.
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>>I helped with the Tech-editing of that book. =0)
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>>UPDATE: Ooops, my bad ... I tech-edited their other book, C# 2008 How To Program.
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>It is a little confusing, isn't it? Do you happen to know why they have two different C# 2008 tomes?

One is for programmers (C# 2008 for Programmers) and the other starts at a much more introductory level for beginners.