I would guess about 60 or 70 (including three I wrote myself, but don't worry, I'm not going to recommend them).
There are probably a half a dozen or so essential ones, but as a general rule, buy anything by
Fritz Onion (on ASP.NET - superb coverage of all the meaty bits of ASP.NET)
Chris Sells (on Windows Forms/WPF - simply awesome)
Adam Nathan (on Interop/WPF - again, very thorough coverage)
Jeff Prosise (one of the best technical authors and speakers on the planet)
Jeff Richter (really good coverage of "boring" stuff like collections, delegates, threads, etc.)
John Robbins (on debugging)
Brian Noyes (if you're into data binding)
Juval Lowy (on components)
Regards
Dave
Marked as answer by dsa1971 on Jan 09, 2008 01:52 PM
I'm no where near 60 and my wife thinks I buy too many computer books. I'll have to check out some of the authors you listed. I've always found there is quite a bit of overlap with a lot of programming books but each one seems to have a few good sections
that others don't so I end up buying more.
DMW
I would guess about 60 or 70 (including three I wrote myself, but don't worry, I'm not going to recommend them).
There are probably a half a dozen or so essential ones, but as a general rule, buy anything by
Fritz Onion (on ASP.NET - superb coverage of all the meaty bits of ASP.NET)
Chris Sells (on Windows Forms/WPF - simply awesome)
Adam Nathan (on Interop/WPF - again, very thorough coverage)
Jeff Prosise (one of the best technical authors and speakers on the planet)
Jeff Richter (really good coverage of "boring" stuff like collections, delegates, threads, etc.)
John Robbins (on debugging)
Brian Noyes (if you're into data binding)
Juval Lowy (on components)
Marked as answer by dsa1971 on Jan 09, 2008 01:52 PM
Where [...] the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh just 1 1/2 tons. ~Popular Mechanics, March 1949.
Marked as answer by dsa1971 on Jan 09, 2008 01:52 PM
I've got about 40 or so, though some are really specialized. And a few are outdated. And some should really be tossed out as worthless or too outdated. Not to count the many I've already recycled or donated, or lost to co-workers.
I find myself grabbing every book on a subject I have to bone up on, which means probably 80% of them get perused once and buried. There are few I keep within reach more than a few months or so. For example, I currently have WROX's IIS 7 and ASP.NET Integrated
Programming (Khosravi, 2007) right at hand because I'm working with extending IIS 7. In six months I may not even have it in my office. But I've had ASP.NET 2.0 Unleashed (Walther, 2006) on my desk since I got it.
I once figured I had just over a ton of books on my shelves. Good thing I have concrete walls and floor. :)
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How many .NET related books do you own?
Feb 13, 2007 01:16 PM|LINK
- ASP.NET Cookbook by Oreilly
- Professional ASP.NET 2.0 by Wrox
- Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 in VB 2005 by apress
- Programming Microsoft Visual Basic 2005: The Language by Microsoft Press
- Pro Scalable .NET 2.0 Application Designs
- Visual C# 2005 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach
- Essential C#
- .NET for Visual FoxPro Developers
This is my current list of .NET books. I'm wondering how many books on .NET other developers own.DMW
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Re: How many .NET related books do you own?
Feb 13, 2007 05:38 PM|LINK
I would guess about 60 or 70 (including three I wrote myself, but don't worry, I'm not going to recommend them).
There are probably a half a dozen or so essential ones, but as a general rule, buy anything by
Fritz Onion (on ASP.NET - superb coverage of all the meaty bits of ASP.NET)
Chris Sells (on Windows Forms/WPF - simply awesome)
Adam Nathan (on Interop/WPF - again, very thorough coverage)
Jeff Prosise (one of the best technical authors and speakers on the planet)
Jeff Richter (really good coverage of "boring" stuff like collections, delegates, threads, etc.)
John Robbins (on debugging)
Brian Noyes (if you're into data binding)
Juval Lowy (on components)
Dave
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Re: How many .NET related books do you own?
Feb 13, 2007 06:09 PM|LINK
I'm no where near 60 and my wife thinks I buy too many computer books. I'll have to check out some of the authors you listed. I've always found there is quite a bit of overlap with a lot of programming books but each one seems to have a few good sections that others don't so I end up buying more.
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Re: How many .NET related books do you own?
Feb 16, 2007 06:20 PM|LINK
About 60 for me. 16 new ones where delievered today. [:D]
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Re: How many .NET related books do you own?
Feb 16, 2007 06:30 PM|LINK
16 in what day[:|]
I guess I have some catching up to do.
Which ones are your favorites?
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Re: How many .NET related books do you own?
Nov 28, 2007 04:18 AM|LINK
Uh, I only got three [:$]:
1) ASP.NET 2.0 for Dummies.
2) The Wrox Starter Kit.
3) The Wrox Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 With C#.
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Re: How many .NET related books do you own?
Dec 03, 2007 02:42 PM|LINK
I've got about 40 or so, though some are really specialized. And a few are outdated. And some should really be tossed out as worthless or too outdated. Not to count the many I've already recycled or donated, or lost to co-workers.
I find myself grabbing every book on a subject I have to bone up on, which means probably 80% of them get perused once and buried. There are few I keep within reach more than a few months or so. For example, I currently have WROX's IIS 7 and ASP.NET Integrated Programming (Khosravi, 2007) right at hand because I'm working with extending IIS 7. In six months I may not even have it in my office. But I've had ASP.NET 2.0 Unleashed (Walther, 2006) on my desk since I got it.
I once figured I had just over a ton of books on my shelves. Good thing I have concrete walls and floor. :)
Jeff
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http://weblogs.asp.net/cstewart/
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You can't go much better than the WROX books in my opinion.
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Re: How many .NET related books do you own?
Jan 28, 2008 02:27 PM|LINK
I really don't know how many ASP.NET books I've. They are all scattered all over the place. I've books published by Sams, Addison-Wesley, Packt, Que.
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