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The Library

Books owned by Tiered Solutions - reviews and comments by Darrell Russell.

Title Author Publisher
ISBN
Comments
Checked Out
Essential .NET Volume 1 The Common Language Runtime    
 
Propellerhead territory!
 
Windows Forms Programming in C#    
 
Seems OK - not used much.
 
Exam Cram 2: .NET Solution Architectures    
 
Not required yet.
 
UML with Visual Studio .NET    
 
About to read - seems like its the only book on the subject. At over £40 for approx 300 pages its the most expensive one I own.
 
Application Architecture for .NET: Designing Applications and Services    
 
Pretty slim book.
 
.NET Patterns Archecture, Design and Process    
 
Pretty slim book.
 
Essential ASP.NET with examples in C#    
 
Excellent start to ASP.NET. Read this one first (dont skip to a big reference book). This helps explain why things are done the way they are. Not a good reference book but still very technical.
 
Pragmatic ADO.NET    
 
 
 
Programming C#    
 
Dogs danglees.
 
Understanding .NET    
 
Very general introduction. Not very techical.
 
C# Mayo SAMS
 
 
 
ASP.NET    
 
Good reference book but not a very smart introduction to the technology - read Essential ASP.NET instead.
 
MCAD 70-316 Developing and Implementeing Windows based Applications with Visual C# .NET and Visual Studio .NET    
 
 
 
MCAD 70-315 Developing and Implementeing Web Applications with Visual C# .NET and Visual Studio .NET    
 
 
 
MCAD 70-229 MCAD/MCSD Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Visual C# .NET and the .NET framework    
 
 
 
Understanding Web Services    
 
Very general introduction. Not very techical.
 
MCAD 70-229 MCDBA, MCSE, MCSD, MCAD SQL Server 2000 Database Design and Implementation    
 
 
 
Inside SQL Server 200    
 
Pretty hardcore - never done it justice.
Rhys P
SQL Server 2000 Programming    
 
Yeah not bad.
Rhys P
Business-to-Business Internet Marketing Barry Silverstein Maximum Press
1-885068-38-7
 
 
Actionscript for Flash MX    
 
Great book.
 
XML Developers Handbook    
 

Load of rubbish .. the only book I've read that gives you an entire chapter to read and then at the end says that the info you've just waded through is out of date.

Also serves as a useful warning on the dangers of attempting to use XML to do everything.

 
Introducing the UNIX System    
 
Old, old book but still OK as reference - should really get a more upto date Linux book.
 
Paterns of Enterprise Application Archtecture Martin Fowler et al Addison Wesley
 
Pretty cool book .. good overview of standard patterns that an enterprise application developer is going to need to know about (if even they dont realise it the'll be using these patterns anyway).
 
Enterprise Integration Patterns - Designing, Building and Deploying Messaging Solutions Gregor Hohpe, Boogy Woolf Addison Wesley
 
Another pretty cool book .. again good overview of standard practise/patterns when creating a messaging framework. If your using MSMQ, for instance, you need to know about the ideas this book covers (you can deduce it all from first principles but its a lot simplier/less risky reading this first).
 
.NET Patterns - Architecure, Design and Process Christian Thilmany Addison Wesley
 
Havent been able tyo get into this book yet .. tried once and ended up reading the two books above.