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C# .NET
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2010 |
Murach's
C# 2008
(Murach)
Reviewer:
Jim O'Neill (01/2010) |
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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
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| 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) |

2009 |
RESTful .NET
(O'Reilly)
Reviewer:
Michael A. Duncan
(11/2009) |

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) |
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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) |
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2009 |
Developing Service-Oriented AJAX Applications on the
Microsoft Platform (Microsoft
Press)
Reviewer:
Michael Robbins(01/2009) |
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2008 |
Developing Service-Oriented AJAX Applications on the
Microsoft Platform (Microsoft
Press)
Reviewer:
Carlos Bossy
(12/2008) |
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2008 |
Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5
(Microsoft Press)
Richard Ruge (11/2008) |
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2008 |
Developing Service-Oriented AJAX Applications on the
Microsoft Platform (Microsoft
Press)
Reviewer:
Ely Lucas
(11/2008) |
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2008 |
Developing Service-Oriented AJAX Applications on the
Microsoft Platform (Microsoft
Press)
Reviewer:
Brian Reed
(11/2008) |
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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
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| 2009 |
The Enterprise and Scrum
(Microsoft Press)
Reviewer:
Jay Urbanowicz
(06/2009) |
| 2009 |
Beginning Database Design Solutions (Wrox)
Reviewer:
J. K. August
(04/2009) |
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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
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| 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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