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10/10/2008
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UML and .NET

Cover Title Author Description
cover UML Applied: A .NET Perspective Martin L. Shoemaker and Karen Watterson This book was written by one of founders of DeveloperAssocation.com. He is the one that put our mission into such a simple phrase, "Our job is to make your job easier".
As he says in the motto, this book is designed to make your life as a .NET developer easier. Using Rational XDE as a modeling tool, Martin lays forth a series of team oriented exercises that are designed to have you solving real problems in no time.

.NET in General

Cover Title Author Description
cover C# and the .NET Platform Andrew Troelsen Good book on .NET and on C#.
cover Visual Basic .NET and the .NET Platform:... Andrew Troelsen Same book as the previous book, except that it's in VB.NET.
cover Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Jeffery Richter This is a great book on the architecture of .NET and will answer a lot of the whys rather than the hows.

.NET Windows Forms Development

Cover Title Author Description
cover Programming Windows with C# (Core Reference) Charles Petzold Charles Petzold did it again. This is the definitive book that you need on how to write any type of Windows Form. He walks through the basics of Windows Forms development and then moves into GDI+, which will allow you to do any type of drawing to the screen.

Compact Framework Development

Cover Title Author Description
cover Microsoft .NET Compact Framework (Core Reference) Andy Wigley, Stephen Wheelwright, Mark Sutton, et al This is the best book on the market for the Compact Framework.

VB.NET

Cover Title Author Description
cover Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (Core Reference) Francesco Balena This is a huge book, but it's a great intro book that will really walk you through a good number of topics. One of the real benifits to the book that there are a number of short, but good code samples.

Web Services

Cover Title Author Description
cover Real World XML Web Services: For VB and VB.NET Developers Yasser Shohoud The definitive Web Services Book for .NET Developers.
cover Microsoft .NET XML Web Services Step by Step Adam Freeman, Allen Jones, Adam Freeman Very good step by step book that walks you through .NET Web Services in both VB.NET and C#.

XML

Cover Title Author Description
cover Inside XML (Inside) Steven Holzner This is a great intro to XML Book that covers a lot of ground.
cover Inside XSLT Steven Holzner Solid XSLT book that gives a lot of small and useful examples.
cover XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition Elliotte Rusty Harold, W. Scott Means Good Reference book for a number of different XML Standards. The big one that it misses is XML Schemas. For XML Schemas, see the next book in the list
cover The XML Schema Complete Reference Cliff Binstock (Editor), Dave Peterson, Mitchell Smith Everything that you could ever want to know about XML Schemas.
cover Processing XML with Java: A Guide to... Elliotte Rusty Harold This is a great book for Java developers who want to get into JDOM and JAXP.
Slides and Code Samples from VSLive

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UML Applied: A .NET Perspective

April, 2003 from www.amazon.com

UML guru Martin Shoemaker's new book on .NET and UML, soon to be available from Amazon!

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Due Diligence:
ASP.NET, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Visual Studio, Microsoft.NET, Visual Studio.NET, C#, VB.NET, ATL, MFC are trademarks of Microsoft Corp.
Unified Modeling Language (UML) and the UML Logo are trademarks of the Object Managedment Group (OMG).
Rational XDE and Rational ROSE are trademarks of Rational Software Corp.
XML is a trademark of MIT and a product of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
XML Spy, AXAD and Altova are trademarks of Altova GmbH
Java is a trademark of Sun Microsystems.
XML BootCamp is a registered trademark of The Writer's Group, Inc.

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