* One of the first books to really offer C# programmers a set of cut-and-paste Visual C# 2005 solutions, in the Apress Recipes series format. Every recipe is specifically chosen and written to help the emerging Visual C# 2005 professional do their job from day one. * The Apress Recipes series balances code and textual explanations perfectly to explain the new nuances of Visual C# 2005 as well as present the code recipes themselves. * The code in this book comes as a complete stand-alone Visual Studio 2005 Solution, complete with unit tests for all recipes. This means the solutions are really ready to run as soon as the reader opens the book. * Code is authoritative and follows Microsoft's best-practice guidelines for .NET 2.0.