* Only book to include complete coverage of the Whidbey features of C# (C# 2.0).

* Material explains and demonstrates the use of concepts in a gradual fashion.

* Streamlined samples do not contain extraneous material that distract the reader.

* Sample code presented is based upon common tasks (i.e. connecting to a database, creating a singleton remote object, etc.) instead of objects, classes, methods and properties like the presentation in MSDN or other books.

* A visual approach to learning C# with callouts explaining concepts

* A quick reference that could be used to help pass the MCSD.NET exams