I know I'm not the only one here who has a mountain of .net books stacked all over the place. So what is everyone's favorite .net book? Mastering C# was an invaulable resource for me when I first started digging into C#. Now, I find myself constantly referring to 'Developing .NET Application Frameworks' when I'm laying out my architecuture. Definetly recommended!

1-Building Applications and Components with Visual Basic .NET by Ted Pattison, Joe Hummel

Maybe this book seems out of place here because it is about a VB.NET book, but I still see his book as an invaluable book for explaining oops in .NET. Mr. Pattison explains oops principals in fluent and clear language that makes you wonder "why was this so difficult for me to grasp??". The chapter about Delegates & Events is worth the price of the book alone.

2- Expert C# Business Objects (and its VB.NET predecessor) by Rockford Lhotka

I think Rocky's name on the book is enough to promote the book. I feel that his CSLA.NET framework (introduced in the book) augments LLBL perfectly as the best service manager to expose LLBL's services with the extra benefits of a DataPortal (the DataPortal offers a single point of access to the backend that allows changing the instantiating of objects from in-process to out-of process (using remoting) by just changing settings in the AppConfig. It also facilitates the integration of table-based and/or Windows security and other benefits...)

Omar

Wow, great question, I have 3.

1. Visual Basic .NET Programmers Cookbook, for all of the off the wall simple things that you dont feel like googling for or digging through over blown MSDN Samples

2. Design Patterns in C#

3. All of the books in the MCSD.NET Microsoft Official Curriculum from when I took all my .NET Training. The books really cover alot.

c# - the complete reference, by Herb Schildt. It rocks

I have 2 .net books. One I read but didn't teach me a lot, which is: Professional .NET Framework by Wrox. (A friend of mine told me: "The author's photographs are on the front cover of the book, that always is a bad sign for the quality", he was right ). The other is the best C# book I ran into: Programming C# by Jesse Liberty.

Another book, not .NET per se, is from Coder to Developer. Really good book for getting everything connected. For people who do development for years and years it's more of a "I knew it! I was right all along!" journey, but that can be fun of course

Not .NET books but great resources: - Design patterns by GoF, the original one from 1994 - Modern Structured Analysis by E. Yourdon. Read it. - Conceptual Schema and Relational Database Design, by Halpin and Nijssen. Great book about abstract database modelling.

(edit) You have to read 'Modern' structured analysis, not the old version from 1789.

Hi, just one one question:

• Structured Analysis by E. Yourdon. Read it.

Is this book still available by Amazon? Could you send me a link, please ?

Thanks!

awex wrote:

Hi, just one one question:

• Structured Analysis by E. Yourdon. Read it.

Is this book still available by Amazon? Could you send me a link, please ?

Thanks!

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Though, new it's a bit expensive, I'd look at a second hand bookstore which has computer books.

awex wrote:

Hi, just one one question:

• Structured Analysis by E. Yourdon. Read it.

Is this book still available by Amazon? Could you send me a link, please ?

Thanks!

I ordered it used from an Amazon reseller recently. I haven't read it yet, first I have to read "Converting everything from .NET to Java".

One that was a favorite both for education and reference: ADO.Net by David Scheppa. Of course, now we're using GenPro objects for everything...

I have a few .NET books but the best book I have (and still reading) is not specifically .NET, it's CODE Complete by Steve McConnell. It's the 2nd Edition and it is a practical handbook of software construction.

I'll add another vote for Code Complete (2nd Edition)

There's just tons of practical information there.

As for specific syntactical stuff, there's plenty of info on the internet and it's generally easier to find vs book.

• Structured Analysis by E. Yourdon. Read it.

Hey Frans,

I just received the above book, which I ordered on your recommendation (I didn't follow your link--I just did my own search).

Anyway, I unknowingly ordered a version that was originally printed in 1979 or so. Should I chuck this version and order the more modern one, or all the concepts the same? I have to imagine OOP has changed structured design theory?

I only paid about $5 for it, so it isn't a big deal to re-order.

I also ordered the database book you recommended. I've been unable to find the Gang of Four book. Link?

Thanks,

Phil

Concepts are the same though he revisited in 1989 or so, "Modern structured analysis" as it seems (I have the dutch translation ). But I think your version won't be that much different from the later versions on DFD's, DSD's and the like, but if you can swap it for a later version I'd do that.

The yourdon book: amazon

GoF patterns: amazon