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Official Site: C# Developer Center | C# Specification
Official Blog: Blogs from the C# Team
Wikipedia: C#
Microsoft Visual Studio: Visual C# Express Edition 2008
PCWorld: Microsoft Unveils C# Language (June 23, 2000)
eWeek.com: The Father of C# on the Past, Present and Future of Programming (June 15, 2005)
YouTube Video: C# tutorial 1 (Time: 2:12)

C# Learning & Tutorials

Tutorials

C# Practical Learning: C# Tutorial
C# Station: C# Tutorial
MSDN: C# Tutorials
Java2s.com: [http://www.java2s.com/Tutorial/CSharp/CatalogCSharp.htm C# Tutorial
Softsteel Solutions: C# Tutorial

Video Tutorials

YouTube Video: C# Programming tutorial (1of2) (Time: 2:56)
YouTube Video: C# Programming tutorial (2of2) (Time: 6:44)

C# Integrated Development Environments

C# Forums

CSharpFriends.com: C# Forums
MSDN: Visual C# Forums
C# Corner: C# Forums
C# Help: C# Forums

C# Code Examples

MSDN: Visual C# Code Examples | Download 23 C# Code Samples
Fincher.org: C# Code Examples
C#Online.Net: CSharp Code Snippets
C# Examples: C# Code Examples

C# Blogs

Google Blog Search: C#
C#Online.Net: C# Online.NET Official Weblog
NewsBlog (CNET): C# set to take Java's crown as Java drops 50 percent (March 3, 2008)
O'Reilly: A Java Programmer Looks at C# Delegates (May 21, 2003)

C# Books

Google Book Search: C# Books
Amazon.com: C# Books
Barnes&Noble: C# Books
O'Reilly: C# Books

Main Features

There are many features to C# as with many of the other programming languages. There are no global variables in C# and also methods and variables must be declared within the class they are running from, or they should be passed in from another method or class. Also local variables cannot shadow variables of an opposing block of code and multiple inheritance is also not supported, unlike C++. C# is almost entirely syntactically similar to the Java programming language. This makes it really simple for programmers that are adept in Java to easily move to C#.

History

C# was developed by Anders Hejlsberg as a procedural, objected oriented language based off the C++ and Java code structure. Originally this programming language had the name "Cool", but was later renamed to C#. The name C# was inspired by the musical notation sharp. However, since there are no sharp keys on a keyboard, the pound sign was chosen to follow the C in C#. The first public release of C# was in 2001.