This is the .NET 2.0 edition of Murach"s best-selling C# book. As its title implies, it teaches you how to develop Windows business applications from scratch, integrating all of the new 2005 features like data sources, generics, code snippets, refactoring, partial and static classes, and anonymous methods. But most C# 2005 books cover the same things. So here are several ways this book differs from the others. #1: There"s a 5-chapter section on database programming This is crucial in business applications, and it"s an area that"s changed dramatically from earlier versions of C#. So this section shows you how to use the new SQL data sources and the DataGridView control to develop database applications with little or no C# code. Then, to understand what"s going under the surface, you"ll learn to code ADO.NET to work directly with databases. Finally, you"ll learn how to create and use object data sources, also new in C# 2.0, to create 3-layer applications that keep the...