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/r/csharp is for technical discussion of the C# programming language, as well as associated tools, libraries, news, announcements, events, and software engineering practices.

This post attempts to provide useful links to software frequently used by C# and .NET developers, as well as links to associated subreddits and communities. See the sidebar for additional information.

Before asking for help, check if one of the communities below is a better fit for your question

• /r/learncsharp
• /r/learnprogramming
• /r/programmingbuddies
• StackOverflow

Tips for asking good questions

1. Summarize your question in your title
   • Do: "Application crashes with exception SomeException when I try some action"
   • Don't: "My code doesn't work, help!"
2. List all errors and exceptions that you receive
3. Tell us what steps you've taken to try to solve the problem and why they didn't work (as best you can)
4. Put all the relevant code into a snippet or fiddle online, or share the source repository
   • Do: Use GitHub Gists, Pastee, or .NET Fiddle
   • Do: Paste screenshots of errors that are graphical (such as UI layout issues or garbled controls)
   • Don't: Paste screenshots of your code or compiler errors.
5. Use reddit markdown to properly format your posts.

Learning and reference material

Online documentation

• MSDN C# Documentation
• C# Programming Concepts
• Introduction to Object Oriented Programming Concepts (OOP) and More
• StackOverflow: C# Documentation

Books

• C# Yellow Book
• C# in Depth
• CLR via C#

Courses

• Microsoft Virtual Academy
• Pluralsight C# and .NET
• Udacity Software Engineering Courses
• edX .NET Courses
• edX C# Course

Video Tutorials

• C# Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners

Related communities

• /r/dotnet
• /r/windowsazure
• /r/fsharp
• /r/visualbasic
• /r/wpdev
• C# Enthusiasts - Google Community

Useful software

Editors and IDEs

• Visual Studio Community 2015
• Visual Studio Code
• Xamarin
• Atom atom-omnisharp Omnisharp
• SharpDevelop

Obscenely useful IDE extensions/plugins/integrations

• Resharper - on-the-fly code analysis, snippets, solution-wide refactoring, automatic quick-fixes and good practice suggestions

.NET decompilers

• ILSpy
• Telerik JustDecompile
• JetBrains dotPeek

C# interactive shells/exploratory programming

• LINQPad
• RoslynPad
• CShell
• Mono C# REPL
• Visual Studio C# Interactive
• CSharpPad