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Read a Good Book Lately?

So i received an amazon.com gift certificate for Christmas, and i'm thinking of getting a few good .NET books for myself. Thing is, i've not had the time recently to read a lot of good stuff or to have even kept up with the new books that are out. So i'm asking for some reco's from everyone.

i've been interested in books on attribute-based programming, reflection, and more advanced topics. Perhaps a good one on server controls, but more along the lines of the more academic stuff. Nothing basic, nothing simple.

Comments anyone?

Posted: Dec 30 2003, 11:49 AM by tatochip | with 8 comment(s)

Comments

Jesse Ezell said:

Essential .NET by Box and Sells if you haven't read it yet is always a must read. The MS Press book on server controls is pretty good as well. If you want more academic stuff, the refactoring and enterprise patterns books by Fowler are great. I tend to think that if you are advanced, you are probably going to get more out of the conceptual stuff (which might not even be .NET related) than more .NET reference stuff you can just find on MSDN. As such, Modern Structured Analysis by Edward Yourton and the competitive strategy book by Porter are great reads.
# December 30, 2003 12:55 PM

brady gaster said:

WOW! Thanks a lot for those. i've looked through the essential book and thought "eh..." The others sound awesome!

Perhaps something more programmatic would be more fun for me, but i'll look into those patterns books, looks nice.
# December 30, 2003 1:03 PM

Russ C. said:

It's not .net at all, but if you up for a good read about programming in general documentary style not guidbook, I will always recommend a book by Stephen Levy called 'Hackers'.

Everytime I read it, I just just wanna go write an OS or something :)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0141000511/qid=1072811239/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-9466738-0141449?v=glance&s=books
# December 30, 2003 2:08 PM

Maxim V. Karpov said:

NOthing to do with .NET but gives you great perspective into the technologies

The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
by Ray Kurzweil

0140282025
# December 30, 2003 2:43 PM

Scott Galloway said:

Best one around on Server Controls has to be Nikhil Kothari's book (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735615829), the Applied .NET Attributes book (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1590591364) also has excellent (and more importantly, useful) coverage of pretty much everything you need to know about attributes. Yet to find a decent one on reflection though...
# December 30, 2003 7:35 PM

Scott Mitchell said:

I'll second Scott Galloway's recommendation on Nikhil's book. Also I am a big fan of Richter's Applied .NET Framework Programming - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735614229/4guysfromrollaco
# December 30, 2003 8:33 PM

brady gaster said:

Cool! i just picked up the attributes book! Plus. apress' other goodie "writing visual studio.net add-ins." so i'll be good for awhile, have to come up with a few nice apps that'll facilitate both technologies.
# December 30, 2003 9:20 PM

Oddur Magnusson said:

I recomennd the apress books, they are pretty specific in their subject and therefore go quite deep in each book.
# December 31, 2003 10:40 AM
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