>I'm not really looking for something on all 2K+ classes but the basics more or less. You get introductions in most books and some books have left out important areas (ie, O'Reily's C# in a nutshell didn't cover the System.Data classes?!?!?). So I guess a book on the basics of the classes is more inline of what I would like to see.

Yep. Trouble is the basics to you isn't going to synch up with the basics to someone else. :-\

>As for datagrid, not the differences but how to use it and a tip/trick book.

Ah.

> That is just an example but other controls would be great as well. I have seen a project solutions book

Which title? (Always interested in new books. I just got _Applied MS .NET Framework Programming_. Dunno how it is yet.

> but nothing along the lines of some Fox books on tips and tricks. I guess nobody really knows how to really expound on the controls to really tweek them to there maximum. It just appears to be a bit early for some of that.

Yes, it's amazing in one way that there is as much written as there is, but I think we have yet to see how the best way to learn and use and document .NET will turn out. It's a nascent project. And really rather unique, it seems to me, in the scope of issues and topics.

>I guess the best solution is to use the online help. Oh, well....

You might keep notes of what you learn as you go. If you see a need for a particular sort of book, and don't find it out there already, maybe it's a niche you can fill with articles, for example. Just a suggestion. :)