How to quickly gain knowledge of .net latest version?

Question

Books

The request is probably not quite standard, but I need to bring my knowledge of .net up to date. I have to work on .net, and my knowledge is already outdated.

About 5 years ago I was actively programming on .net version 1 (2 just appeared and was not implemented in large quantities). There were both Windows Forms, Remoting, WebServices, and ASP.NET programming using various DevExpress-type components. In general, almost the entire spectrum of technologies. At one time I was not even too lazy to get MCSD.NET :-)

In recent years, I have been programming on everything, now basically these are all sorts of frameworks in php.

I need to improve my knowledge from version 1.0 to 4.0.

I understand that this is probably unrealistic, but I am ready to devote enough time to this, because. I don't have much of a choice. I have a month or two left to improve my knowledge.

Throw, please, links to books, articles, manuals that can help me with this.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Oddly enough, I recommend the books:
C#2010 crash course if time is short,
E. Troelsen C#2010 and .NET 4 or C# in a Nutshell by OReilly if more.
This is for starters. It was useful for me to read the prep book for exam 70-516
In addition,
Art of unit testing in .NET
CLR via C#
C# in Depth
The last two would be advised to start somewhere after 2-3 months of practice.
Good luck!

Answer 2

Download the Training Kit for the appropriate version - for example, for 4 - Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit . Just information about innovations

Answer 3

Trolsen is useless, it is aimed at freshmen who do not know what a cycle is.
C# in nutshell is the very thing, everything is described in sufficient detail without chewing on the obvious.
If you need to delve into some topic, then C # in Depth and CLR via C #. You can read them in full later, as time permits.