.NET Book

When browsing around the blogs, I found that most of the bloggers read LOTS of articles and reference books about ASP.NET since Beta 1/2. However, the situation is a bit different for me, as there are FEW books in Hong Kong. One of the reason is that the bookstore owner won't purchase computer book in ENGLISH, (English is not our mother tongue) or they just purchase a couple of the 'best selling' books only.

It's normal to see that you have to programming in a language that is not your mother tongue (I mean speaking language, but not programming language :P ) I'm sure most of the people out there are like me:

TimeSpend(Coding+Email) > TimeSpend(Face2FaceChat)

Anyway, what I want to say today is the book, the bookstore sell the English version of the books, well, you read it.. nice, but there are some books in another corner selling the 'translated' book (Maybe the same cover but printed in another language) When you read a translated technical book - it's pretty hard to understand, especially the technical terms and you will get lost after reading it as you will find everything in Visual Studio .NET / Web Matrix are in English. (If anyone know any publisher or import/introduction of Books to other regions, plesae let me know as the shipping cost of book from the online bookstore to my region may sometimes more expensive than the original cost of the book. :| )

Anyway, the situation is now changed, as I got LOTS of books after my trip
to Seattle, and I bought a few books that seem to be NEVER appear in
Hong Kong (Few of them are MOST PROBABLY won't be re-printed or published anymore, and I finally get the Nikhil's book though lots of people may read it second/third times now. :)

I'm now busy in work and read book, and I'd like to thanks Charles Carroll and Rob Caron. (I'm so busy and sleep <2-3 hours/day just because of them!)I'm FULL (hunger of reading book in the past) mentally and physically, but their help are really great and definitely useful for my future development. They select and transport the most valuable books and I even don't have to read any review in advance ;)

One of the book I read recently is a Performance book, which cover lots of information about the background and concept when coding in ASP.NET, and it also answer many FAQ in the Forums or Lists, e.g. DataSet VS DataReader? (DataSet use DataReader behind the scene in fact; Use 'Index' or 'ColumnName' when getting data from DataReader, they really spend time in 'tracing', record and capture the screen of the processing... The beauty of this book is like that, which would remind you the basic and trick. I'll write more book reviewing and share with my friends after the digestion of these books. ;)

Colt