Manual presenting RS232 serial port controlled by PIC16F84 With Visual C # where you can learn to control a PIC through an interface on the PC under Visual C #. Net.
Still, for lack of time I have not finished that part of MonoDevelop in Linux thing I will do in the future as in 2009. They know that will continue only the first 200 pages with Visual Basic. Net (depends on the demand that I will do well with Visual Basic 6) and Visual C + + 200 others.