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 C# .NET
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2010		 Murach's C# 2008 (Murach)
     Reviewer: Jim O'Neill (01/2010)
2009 Essential C# 3.0: For .NET Framework 3.5, 2nd Edition (Addison-Wesley Professional)
     Reviewer: Brian Reed (07/2009)
2008 Sams Teach Yourself Visual C# 2008 in 24 Hours: Complete Starter Kit (Sams)
     Reviewer: Howie Cohen (09/2008)
2005 Programming C#, Fourth Edition - Building .NET Applications with C# (O'Reilly)
      Reviewer: Dmitri Nevedrov  (07/2005)
2004 Expert C# Business Objects (Apress)
      Reviewer: Bryan Tyler (11/2004)
2004 Murach's C# ((Murach)
     Reviewer: Chris Wallace (08/2004)
2004 Windows Forms Programming in C# (Addison Wesley Professional)
      Reviewer: John Lindsay (02/2004)
2004 Programming in the Key of C#: A Primer for Aspiring Programmers (Microsoft Press)
      Reviewer: Andrei Podoplelov (01/2004)
2003 C# Developer's Guide to ASP.NET, XML, and ADO.NET  (Addison Wesley Professional)
      Reviewer: RaviNarayan S. Vuppaladadiyam (08/2003)
2003 User Interfaces in C#: Windows Forms and Custom Controls (Apress)
     Reviewer: Steve Gunther (07/2003)
2003 Windows Forms Programming with C# (Manning)
     Reviewer: Dirk Kaiser (05/2003)
2003 C# for Java Developers (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: Brian D Reed (05/2003)
2003 C# Unleashed (Sams)
     Reviewer: Roy Haschenburger (04/2003)
2003 Microsoft Visual C# .NET Step by Step (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: Alex Perucchini (04/2003)
2003 C# Design Patterns: A Tutorial (Addison Wesley Professional)
     Reviewer: Daniel Larson (03/2003)
2003 Inside C#, Second Edition  (Microsoft Press) -- 2nd Review
     Reviewer: Peggy Wilmarth (02/2003)
2003 The Complete Visual C# Programmer's Guide (Microgold Software - Publishing Division)
     Reviewer: Jason Christensen (01/2003)
2002 A Programmer's Introduction to C#, Second Edition (Apress)
     Reviewer: Peggy Wilmarth (12/2002)
2002 Professional C# (Wrox)
     Reviewer: Linda OBanion (12/2002)
2002 Inside C#, Second Edition  (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: David Yack (10/2002)
2002 C#: How to Program  (Prentice Hall)
     Reviewer: Peggy Wilmarth (04/2002)
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 Visual Basic .NET
2008 Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 2008 in 24 Hours: Complete Starter Kit (Sams)
     Reviewer: Chris Rinow (09/2008)
2006 No Starch Press: The Book of Visual Basic 2005, .NET Insight for Classic VB Developers
 (No Starch Press)
     Reviewer: Dick Grier (08/2006)
2006 Visual Basic 2005 Express: Now Playing (No Starch Press)
     Reviewer: Brian Reed (07/2006)
2006 Visual Basic 2005 Programmer's Reference (Wrox)
     Reviewer: Brian Reed (05/2006)
2006 Visual Basic 2005: A Developer's Notebook (O'Reilly)
      Reviewer: Ian Jaffe (01/2006)
2005 Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Version 2003 (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: Marshall Kuhn (06/2005)
2005 The Visual Basic .NET Programming Language (Addison Wesley Professional)
      Reviewer: Matt Morris (04/2005)
2004 Building Applications and Components with Visual Basic .NET (Addison Wesley Professional)
     Reviewer: Pat Pfeifer (08/2004)
2004 Visual Basic .NET Power Coding (Addison Wesley Professional)
     Reviewer: Brian Reed (08/2004)
2004

Murach's Beginning Visual Basic .NET (Murach)
     Reviewer: Michael Spencer (06/2004)
2004 Windows Forms Programming in Visual Basic .NET (Addison Wesley Professional) 
      Reviewer: Frank Salvatore (03/2004)
2003 The Book of VB .NET - .NET Insight for VB Developers (No Starch Press)
     Reviewer: Frank Salvatore (12/2003)
2003 Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (Core Reference) (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: Bill Crick (10/2003)
2003 Database Access with Visual Basic.NET, Third Edition (Addison Wesley Professional)
      Reviewer: Jean Caroline Mills (09/2003)
2003 OOP: Building Reusable Components with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: Pat Pfeifer (06/2003)
2003 Designing Enterprise Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: Larry Haskin (06/2003)
2003 Upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: Caroline Mills (04/2003)
2003 Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: Mack Holland III (03/2003)
2002 An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming with Visual Basic .NET (Apress)
     Reviewer: Peggy Wilmarth (12/2002)
2002 Visual Basic .NET: How to Program, 2nd Edition (Prentice Hall)
     Reviewer: Peggy Wilmarth (04/2002)
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 .NET Framework
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2009		 Programming Microsoft LINQ (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: Richard Ruge (01/2010)
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2009		 RESTful .NET (O'Reilly)
     Reviewer: Michael A. Duncan (11/2009)
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2009		 Murach's ADO.NET 3.5, LINQ, and the Entity Framework with C# 2008 (Murach)
     Reviewer: Rob Collins (10/2009)
2009 LINQ for Dummies (Wiley)
     Reviewer: Chris Rinow (05/2009)
2009 LINQ Programming (McGraw-Hill Professional)
     Reviewer: Jim O'Neill (03/2009)
2008

Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation Step by Step (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: Larry Haskin (12/2008)
2008 Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed (WCF) (Sams)
     Reviewer: Fernando Cardenas (07/2008)
2008 Professional WPF Programming: .NET Development with the Windows Presentation Foundation (Wrox)
     Reviewer: Martin Buchanan  (07/2008)
2008 Understanding Windows CardSpace: An Introduction to the Concepts and Challenges of Digital Identities (Addison-Wesley, Pearson Education)
      Reviewer: Howard Cohen (04/2008)
2008 Learning WCF- A hands on guide - Master Windows Communication Foundation and SOA Fundamentals (O'Reilly)
     Reviewer: David Yack (03/2008)
2007 Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed (WCF) (Sams)
     Reviewer: Dmitri Nevedrov (06/2007)
2007

Pro Visual Studio 2005 Team System (Apress)
     Reviewer: Fernando Cardenas (02/2007)
2006 Professional ADO.NET 2: Programming with SQL Server 2005, Oracle, and MySQL (Wrox)
      Reviewer: Clifford Nelson (01/2006)
2005 Visual Studio Hacks - Tips & Tools for Turbocharging the IDE (O'Reilly)
      Reviewer: Ani Babaian (07/2005)
2005 Code Generation in Microsoft .NET  (Apress) -- 2nd Review
     Reviewer: Martin Buchanan (04/2005)
2005 Open Source .NET Development: Programming with NAnt, NUnit, NDoc, and More
(Addison Wesley Professional)
      Reviewer: Eric Jerome (03/2005)
2005 Expert Service-Oriented Architecture In C#: Using the Web Services Enhancements 2.0 (Apress)
      Reviewer: Mike Collins (03/2005)
2005 The .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security (Addison Wesley Professional)
     Reviewer: Ani Babaian (03/2005)
2005 Developing Application Frameworks in .NET (Apress)
      Reviewer: Larry Haskin (02/2005)
2004 Code Generation in Microsoft .NET  (Apress)
     Reviewer: Brian Reed (08/2004)
2004 Visual Basic .NET and ADO.NET with SQL Server and Access (DVPress)
     Reviewer: Pat Pfeifer (06/2004)
2004 Microsoft .NET and J2EE Interoperability Toolkit (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: Rajesh Chawla (06/2004)
2004 Introducing Microsoft .NET, Third Edition  (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: David C. Rubins (05/2004)
2004 Graphics Programming with GDI+ (with C# and VB.NET) (Addison Wesley Professional)
      Reviewer: Peggy Wilmarth (05/2004)
2004 Microsoft ADO.NET (Core Reference)  (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: Bill Crick (04/2004)
2003

.NET Security and Cryptography (Prentice Hall)
      Reviewer: Sujan Turlapaty (12/2003)
2003 .NET and COM: The Complete Interoperability Guide (Sams) 
      Reviewer: Dmitri Nevedrov (11/2003)
2003 XML and Web Services Unleashed (Sams)
      Reviewer: RaviNarayan S. Vuppaladadiyam (11/2003)
2003 Essential ADO.NET (Addison Wesley Professional)
     Reviewer: Sandra Miller (06/2003)
2003 Microsoft .NET Compact Framework (Core Reference) (Microsoft Press)
      Reviewer: Dick Grier (05/2003)
2003 Microsoft .NET Remoting (Microsoft Press)
      Reviewer: David Yack (05/2003)
2003 Building XML Web Services for the Microsoft .NET Platform (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: Tim Colton (04/2003)
2003 Programming in the .NET Environment (Addison Wesley Professional)
      Reviewer: Roger Martin (04/2003)
2003 ADO.NET Programming (Manning)
     Reviewer: Chris Wallace (04/2003)
2003 .NET Multithreading (Manning)
      Reviewer: Richard Grier (03/2003)
2002 Professional ADO.NET Programming (Wrox)
     Reviewer: Peggy Wilmarth (12/2002)
2002 Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: Peggy Wilmarth (12/2002)
2002 Coding Techniques for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET  (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: Peggy Wilmarth (11/2002)
2002 Microsoft ADO.NET Step by Step  (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: Peggy Wilmarth (09/2002)
2002 Inside Microsoft .NET IL Assembler  (Microsoft Press) -- 2nd Review
     Reviewer: John Slagle (08/2002)
2002 Inside Microsoft .NET IL Assembler  (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: William Kent (07/2002)
2002 A Programmer’s Guide to ADO.NET in C# (Apress)
     Reviewer: Chris Wallace (05/2002)
2002 Professional .NET Framework (Wrox)
     Reviewer: Danny J. Lesandrini (03/2002)
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 ASP.NET
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2009		 Murach's ASP.NET 3.5 Web Programming with C# 2008 (Murach)
     Reviewer: Will Blacklock (09/2009)
2009 Developing Service-Oriented AJAX Applications on the Microsoft Platform (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: Michael Robbins(01/2009)
2008 Developing Service-Oriented AJAX Applications on the Microsoft Platform (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: Carlos Bossy (12/2008)
2008 Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 (Microsoft Press)
     Richard Ruge  (11/2008)
2008 Developing Service-Oriented AJAX Applications on the Microsoft Platform (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: Ely Lucas (11/2008)
2008 Developing Service-Oriented AJAX Applications on the Microsoft Platform (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: Brian Reed (11/2008)
2008 Murach's ASP.NET 3.5 Web Programming with VB 2008 (Murach)
     Reviewer: Howie Cohen (11/2008)
2008 Professional ASP.NET 3.5: In C# and VB (Wrox)
     Reviewer: Cory Edwards (09/2008)
2008 Beginning ASP.NET 3.5: In C# and VB (Wrox)
     Reviewer: Kaushik Pan (06/2008)
2008 Data Access in the ASP.NET 2.0 Framework (Video LiveLessons) (Sams)
     Reviewer: Howard J. Cohen (01/2008)
2007 Core Internet Application Development with ASP.NET 2.0 C# (Prentice Hall Professional)
     Reviewer: Adam Roderick (07/2007)
2007 Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Databases (Wrox)
     Brian Reed (04/2007)
2007 Professional DotNetNuke 4: Open Source Web Application Framework for ASP.NET 2.0  (Wrox)
     Fernando Cardenas (04/2007)
2007 Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Server Control and Component Development (Wrox)
     Larry Haskin (03/2007)
2007 Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Special Edition (Wrox)
     Reviewer: Brian Reed (01/2007)
2006 ASP.NET 2.0 MVP Hacks and Tips (Wrox)
     Reviewer: Howard Cohen (09/2006)
2006 Beginning Visual Web Developer 2005 Express: From Novice to Professional (Apress)
     Reviewer: Dmitri Nevedrov (05/2006)
2006 ASP.NET 2.0: A Developer's Notebook (O'Reilly)
      Reviewer: Brian D Reed (01/2006)
2006 Beginning Visual Web Programming in VB .NET: From Novice to Professional (Apress)
      Reviewer: Bill Witt (01/2006)
2005 ASP.NET 2.0 Revealed (Apress)
      Reviewer: Ely Lucas (05/2005)
2004 Beginning ASP.NET 1.1 Databases: From Novice to Professional (Apress)
      Reviewer: Kurtis Halvorson (11/2004)
2004 ASP.NET v. 2.0 — The Beta Version  (Addison Wesley Professional)
     Reviewer: Dmitri Nevedrov (10/2004)
2004 Building Web Solutions with ASP.NET and ADO.NET (Microsoft Press)
      Reviewer: Eric Jerome (08/2004)
2004 Murach's ASP.NET Web Programming with VB.NET (Murach)
      Reviewer: Dmitri Nevedrov (05/2004)
2004 ASP.NET Solutions - 23 Case Studies: Best Practices for Developers (Addison Wesley Professional)
      Reviewer: RaviNarayan S. Vuppaladadiyam (04/2004)
2004 Essential ASP.NET with Examples in Visual Basic .NET (Addison Wesley Professional)
      Reviewer: Larry Haskin (02/2004)
2003 Building Secure Microsoft ASP.NET Applications (Microsoft Press)
      Reviewer: David Yack (08/2003)
2003 Performance Testing Microsoft .NET Web Applications (Microsoft Press)
      Reviewer: Dave Fischer (06/2003)
2003 Designing Microsoft ASP.NET Applications (Microsoft Press) -- 2nd Review
      Reviewer: John Sermini (05/2003)
2003 ASP.NET E-Commerce Programming; Problem - Design - Solution (Wrox)
      Reviewer: Peggy Wilmarth (05/2003)
2003 ASP.NET and VB.NET Web Programming (Addison Wesley Professional)
     Reviewer: Carlos Andrade (01/2003)
2002 Designing Microsoft ASP.NET Applications (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: Peggy Wilmarth (12/2002)
2002 ASP.NET Unleashed (Sams)
     Reviewer: Daniel Larson (11/2002)
2002 Microsoft ASP.NET Step by Step  (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: Chris Wallace (07/2002)
2002 Professional ASP.NET 1.0, Special Edition (Wrox)
     Reviewer: Danny J. Lesandrini (05/2002)
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 Application Development
2009 The Enterprise and Scrum (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: Jay Urbanowicz (06/2009)
2009 Beginning Database Design Solutions (Wrox)
     Reviewer: J. K. August (04/2009)
2009

Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise (PRO-Developer) (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: Richard Ruge (02/2009)
2008 Beginning SharePoint 2007: Building Team Solutions with MOSS 2007 (Wrox)
     Reviewer: Linda Meserve (03/2008)
2008 Professional SharePoint 2007 Development (Wrox)
     Reviewer: Fernando Cardenas (01/2008)
2007 Inside Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: Chris Rinow (09/2007)
2007

Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Studio and SQL Server: Best Practice Architectures and Examples, 7th Edition (Addison Wesley Professional)
     Reviewer: Brian Reed (02/2007)
2007 The .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security (Addison Wesley Professional)
     Reviewer: Linda R. Meserve (01/2007)
2006 Agile Project Management with Scrum (Microsoft Press)
      Reviewer: RaviNarayan S. Vuppaladadiyam (01/2006)
2005 Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design, 2nd Edition(Addison Wesley Professional)
      Reviewer: John C. Fiala (06/2005)
2005 Enterprise Application Integration Using .NET (Addison Wesley Professional)
      Reviewer: RaviNarayan S. Vuppaladadiyam (03/2005)
2005 Enterprise Development with Visual Studio .NET, UML, and MSF (Apress)
      Reviewer: Caroline Billingsley (01/2005)
2004 Seeing Data: Designing User Interfaces for Database Systems Using .NET (Addison Wesley Professional)
     Reviewer: Larry Haskin (11/2004)
2004 Professional Software Development: Shorter Schedules, Higher Quality Products, More Successful Projects, Enhanced Careers (Addison Wesley Professional)
      Reviewer: Kevin Wood (05/2004)
2004 .NET Patterns: Architecture, Design, and Process (Addison Wesley Professional)
     Reviewer: Larry Haskin (04/2004)
2004 .NET - A Complete Development Cycle (Addison Wesley Professional) 
      Reviewer: RaviNarayan S. Vuppaladadiyam (02/2004)
2003 Writing Secure Code, Second Edition (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: Bill Crick (12/2003)
2003 Service - and Component-based Development: Using the Select Perspective and UML (Addison Wesley Professional)
     Reviewer: RaviNarayan S. Vuppaladadiyam (04/2003)
2002 Code The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: Peggy Wilmarth (09/2002)
2002 OOP with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual C# .NET Step By Step  (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: Peggy Wilmarth (09/2002)
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 Other
2009 The Nomadic Developer: Surviving and Thriving in the World of Technology Consulting
(Addison-Wesley Professional)
     Reviewer: Fernando Cardenas (08/2009)
2008 The New School of Information Security (Addison-Wesley Professional)
     Reviewer: Richard Ruge (09/2008)
2005 Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 Unleashed (Sams)
      Reviewer: RaviNarayan S. Vuppaladadiyam (06/2005)
2005

XML in Office 2003: Information Sharing with Desktop XML
(Pearson Education, "Prentice Hall PTR" Professional Technical Reference)
      Reviewer: Sandra Miller (04/2005)
2005 Privacy: What Developers and IT Professionals Should Know
(Addison Wesley Professional)
      Reviewer: Dmitri Nevedrov (01/2005)
2004 Office 2003 XML for Power Users (Apress)
     Reviewer: Barbara Gunion (10/2004)
2004 Microsoft Office Programming: A Guide for Experienced Developers (Apress)
     Reviewer: Peggy Wilmarth (02/2004)
2003 C++ for VB Programmers (Apress)
      Reviewer: Brian Reed (09/2003)
2003 Murach's SQL for SQL Server (Murach) -- 2nd Review
     Reviewer: Allison Petroff (08/2003)
2003 Building Tablet PC Applications (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: Roy Ogborn (05/2003)
2003 Crystal Reports 9: The Complete Reference (McGraw-Hill Osborne) -- 2nd Review
     Reviewer: Bruce Finger (05/2003)
2003 Murach's SQL for SQL Server (Murach)
     Reviewer: Sandra Miller (03/2003)
2003 Crystal Reports 9: The Complete Reference (McGraw-Hill Osborne)
     Reviewer: Larry Haskin (02/2003)
2003 Professional Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET (Wrox)
     Reviewer: Brian Reed (01/2003)
2003 HTML & XML For Beginners (Microsoft Press)
     Reviewer: Roger Martin (01/2003)
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