Books for Developers

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1/17/2024

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.NET General

Debugging Microsoft® .NET 2.0 Applications, 3rd Edition ,John Robbins - Microsoft Press, November 2006

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ADO.NET

Microsoft® ADO.NET 4 Step by Step ,Tim Patrick - Microsoft Press, October 2010

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ASP.NET

Microsoft® ASP.NET 4 Step by Step ,George Shepherd - Microsoft Press, April 2010
Programming Microsoft® ASP.NET 4 ,Dino Esposito - Microsoft Press, February 2011

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Best Practices

Clean Code ,Robert C. Martin - Prentice-Hall
Code Complete, 2nd Edition ,Steve McConnell - Microsoft Press, June 2004
Domain Driven Design ,Eric Evans - Addison-Wesley, 2004
Framework Design Guidelines ,Krzysztof Cwalina, Brad Abrams - Addison-Wesley, 2009
I. M. Wright's "Hard Code": A Decade of Hard-Won Lessons from Microsoft®, Second Edition ,Eric Brechner - Microsoft Press, July 2011
Refactoring, Improving the design of existing code ,Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, Don Roberts - Addison-Wesley, 1999
The Security Development Lifecycle ,Michael Howard, Steve Lipner - Microsoft Press, May 2006
Writing Secure Code, 2nd Edition ,Michael Howard, David LeBlanc - Microsoft Press, December 2004
Writing Secure Code for Windows Vista ,Michael Howard, David LeBlanc - Microsoft Press, April 2007
Patterns & practices Application Architecture Guide 2.0* ,J.D. Meier, Alex Homer, David Hill, Jason Taylor, Prashant Bansode, Lonnie Wall, Rob Boucher Jr, Akshay Bogawat*- Microsoft, Jan 2008

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C/C++

Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs (3rd Edition) ,Scott Meyers - Pearson Education, Inc, 2005
More Effective C++: 35 New Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs ,Scott Meyers - Pearson Education, Inc, 1996
Programming Windows, 5th Edition ,Charles Petzold - Microsoft Press, November 1998
The C Programming Language, 2nd Edition ,Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie - Prentice Hall, 1988
The C++ Programming Language, 3rd Edition ,Bjarne Stroustrup - Addison-Wesley Professional, 1997
Windows via C/C++, 5th Edition ,Jeffrey Richter, Christophe Nasarre - Microsoft Press, February 2009
Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ (2nd Edition), Bjarne Stroustrup - Addison-Wesley Professional; 2 edition (May 25, 2014)
C++ Primer Plus (6th Edition) (Developer's Library), Stephen Prata - Addison-Wesley Professional; 6 edition (October 28, 2011)
The C++ Standard Library: A Tutorial and Reference (2nd Edition), Nicolai M. Josuttis - Addison-Wesley Professional; 2 edition (April 9, 2012)
Advanced C and C++ Compiling, Milan Stevanovic - Apress 2014 edition (April 28, 2014)

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VC++/MFC

Programming Microsoft Visual C++, 5th Edition, David Kruglinski, George Shepherd, Scot Wingo - Microsoft Press; 1998
Programming Windows with MFC, 2nd Edition, Jeff Prosise - Microsoft Press; 1999

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C#

CLR via C#, 2nd Edition ,Jeffrey Richter - Microsoft Press, February 2006
CLR via C#, 3rd Edition ,Jeffrey Richter - Microsoft Press, February 2010
CLR via C#, Fourth Edition ,Jeffrey Richter - Microsoft Press, October 2012
Effective C# (Covers C# 4.0): 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C# (2nd Edition) ,Bill Wagner - Pearson Education, Inc, 2010
More Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C# ,Bill Wagner - Pearson Education, Inc, 2009
C# in Depth, Second Edition ,Jon Skeet - Manning Publications, 2010
Programming C# 5.0 ,Ian Griffiths - O'Reilly Media, October 2012
Microsoft Visual C# 2013 Step by Step (Step by Step Developer), John Sharp - Microsoft Press; 1 edition (November 25, 2013)
Programming in Microsoft C# - Exam 70-483, Mark Long, Infinite Skills, March 2015

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Debugging

Inside Windows Debugging ,Tarik Soulami - Microsoft Press, May 2012

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JavaScript

JavaScript Step by Step, 3rd Edition ,Steve Suehring - Microsoft Press, June 2013

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Microsoft Foundation Class

Programming Windows with MFC, Second Edition ,Jeff Prosise - Microsoft Press, May 1999

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Microsoft Kinect for Windows

Programming with the Kinect™ for Windows® Software Development Kit ,David Catuhe - Microsoft Press, September 2012
Start Here!™ Learn the Kinect™ API ,Rob Miles - Microsoft Press, June 2012

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SharePoint 2010

Inside Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 ,Ted Pattison, Andrew Connell, Scot Hillier, David Mann - Microsoft Press, February 2011
Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 Developer Reference ,Paolo Pialorsi - Microsoft Press, March 2011
Professional SharePoint 2010 Development, 2nd Edition ,Thomas Rizzo, Reza Alirezaei, Jeff Fried, Paul J Swider, Scot Hillier, Ken Schaefer - Wiley/Wrox, March 2012
Professional Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 ,Brad Stevenson, Scot Hillier - Wiley/Wrox, January 2011
Beginning SharePoint 2010 Building Business Solutions with SharePoint ,Amanda Perran, Shane Perran, Jennifer Mason, Laura Rogers - Wrox Publications, December 2010

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SharePoint 2013

Microsoft SharePoint 2013 App Development, Scot Hillier, Ted Pattison - Microsoft Press, November 2013
Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Developer Reference, Paolo Pialorsi - Microsoft Press, May 2013
Inside Microsoft SharePoint 2013, Scot Hillier, Mirjam van Olst, Ted Pattison, Andrew Connell, Wictor Wilen, Kyle Davis - Microsoft Press, November 2013
Pro SharePoint 2013 App Development, Steve Wright - Apress, September 2013
Pro SharePoint 2013 Administration, Rob Garett - Apress, May 2013

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