Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform, Fourth Edition by Andrew Troelsen The author, Andrew Troelsen, is clearly an expert on the .NET platform. Andrew Troelsen has done a great job authoring this book. This book reads ve... 5 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 4/29/08, by Ryan Foote Purchase at Amazon
	Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality by Bob Walsh Given that I’ve been involved with MicroISVs for a long time now, I picked up this book with great interest. I must say that the book is very interes... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 3/30/06, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Programming MapPoint in .NET by Chandu Thota Mapping in software has been my specialty for over a decade now. Prior to that, as a kid, I could tell you the capital and the location of every sing... 5 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 2/01/06, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Murach's ASP.NET 2.0 Upgrader's Guide: C# Edition by Doug Lowe and Anne Prince For a seasoned programmer like me (Java/Oracle/Sybase) but new to Microsoft .NET, I had qualms about picking up this upgrader's guide-- Murach's ASP.N... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 10/20/05, by Gregory Hwin Purchase at Amazon
	Programming .NET Components by Juval Löwy In all years, I've been reading technical books, I don't think I have ever disagreed with an author more stringently than I did with Juwal Lowy... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 10/08/05, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Windows Server 2003 Security : A Technical Reference by Roberta Bragg Windows Server 2003 Security A Technical Reference, is a refreshing, look from an author who has clearly been there, and done that. While reading I al... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 7/27/05, by James Marsh Purchase at Amazon
	Enterprise Services with the .NET Framework : Developing Distributed Business Solutions with .NET Enterprise Services by Christian Nagel "Enterprise Services with the .NET Framework" seems to be the only book at the market (at least I could not find a real competitor for it) that experi... 5 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 7/21/05, by Sergiy Nesterenko Purchase at Amazon
	Building Solutions with the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework: Architecture and Best Practices for Mobile Development by Dan Fox, Jon Box. Couple months ago, I was deciding between upgrading my Palm IIIc or buying a window based PDA. I had my palm for 3 years and I was so used to it. Ho... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 6/17/05, by Robert Jurado Purchase at Amazon
	Visual Basic 2005: A Developer's Notebook by Matthew MacDonald This is one of the first books in O'Reilly new Developer's Notebook series. It is designed to appeal to the early adopters. As such, it focuses on t... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 6/09/05, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Visual Studio Hacks by James Avery I am always looking for ways to allow me to be more effective, code faster, design more efficiently. Addins/plugins/code generators/custom toolbars, ... 5 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 5/08/05, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Programming C# by Jesse Liberty This is the 4th edition of this book. The 1st one started out in the early, scary days of .NET when absolutely everything had a .NET moniker (Windows... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 4/06/05, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Beginning C# Objects: From Concepts to Code by Jacquie Barker, Grant Palmer When it comes to learn something like a new computer language, designs, or systems, I've been a huge fan of those "dummies books". When I finally dec... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 11/12/04, by Robert Jurado Purchase at Amazon
	ASP.NET Cookbook by Geoffrey T. LeBlond, Michael A. Kittel Wow, what an incredibly practical book. As with any cookbooks, you'll find most of the source code (or something similar) on google or if you beg in ... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 11/12/04, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	XML in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition by Elliotte Rusty Harold, W. Scott Means This book is now in its third edition. If you have one of the previous editions, then you should know that this tome contains topics on standards tha... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 11/12/04, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Peer-to-Peer with VB .NET by Matthew MacDonald On the strength of Matthew MacDonald's other books (User Interfaces in VB .NET: Windows Forms and Custom Controls, Beginning ASP.NET in VB .NET: From ... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 8/16/04, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Murach's C# by Joel Murach, Doug Lowe If you are looking to learn C#, there probably isn't a better way to learn than Murach's books. Its unique (in the industry) paired-pages way of pre... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 5/05/04, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	C# Cookbook by Stephen Teilhet, Jay Hilyard I love developer cookbooks. The crappy ones are at least useful and the good ones are a staple of the bookshelf. This one is a good one. In usefuln... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 3/03/04, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers by Hank Rainwater I am right now in the transition from star programmer to a program manager. It is a pain in the a. So this book arrived just in time. 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 2/27/04, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Code Generation in Microsoft .Net by Kathleen Dollard There were a lot of things that I found intriguing about this book. First and foremost is the subject. Just like Kathleen (chapter x), I am quite la... 5 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 2/12/04, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Unite the Tribes: Ending Turf Wars for Career and Business Success by Christopher Duncan Half a how-to handbook, half a motivational guide, "Unite the Tribes" forms a thoughtful anti-thesis to the Office Space way of things, currently prev... 5 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 1/07/04, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Murach's ASP.NET Web Programming with VB.NET by Doug Lowe, Anne Prince This is Murach's first entry into the medium to advanced category. Previously most of the .NET materials they've published were aimed at the newbie c... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 12/22/03, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Rapid Application Development with Mozilla by Nigel McFarlane The last book I reviewed that dealt with building applications with Mozilla, quite frankly, sucked. So, obviously, I had high hopes for this one: fo... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 12/19/03, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Building ASP.NET Server Controls by Dale Michalk, Rob Cameron Prior to ASP.NET reusing code for the UI portions of the Web Development was quite difficult. There wasn't a clean encapsulable mechanism for posting... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 11/13/03, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Windows Server 2003 in a Nutshell by Mitch Tulloch Like many O'Reilly books, this one is a reference with a smattering of tutorials thrown in for a good measure. And like many O'Reilly books it delive... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 11/06/03, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Applied .Net Attributes by Jason Bock, Tom Barnaby .NET framework probably does not have a more mysterious aspect to it than attributes. Unless, you've been heavily programming in C++, most people do... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 10/29/03, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	The Ultimate VB .NET and ASP.NET Code Book by Karl Moore My immediate impression after reading the book: incredibly useful. The book addresses many issues that would be difficult to figure out on your own o... 5 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 10/07/03, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Data Entry and Validation with C# and VB .NET Windows Forms by Nick Symmonds This seems like a book that needs to be taught in college. In fact, it should be a separate required course. Because, let's face it - you take compi... 3 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 9/23/03, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	3D Game Engine Design Using DirectX9 and C# by Lynn Thomas Harrison 3D Game Engine Design Using DirectX9 and C# This is a serious gaming programming book. Meek need not apply. Get one thing through your head: THI... 3 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 9/23/03, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Learn VB .NET Through Game Programming by Matthew Tagliaferri My first impression of the title was "yeah, right", but then it made sense: games are written by high end programmers. Still, I was kind of skeptical... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 8/26/03, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Murach's VB.NET Database Programming with ADO.NET by Anne Prince, Doug Lowe Murach's VB.NET Database Programming with ADO.NET is a follow-up/companion piece and a logical continuation to the Murach's Beginning Visual Basic .NE... 5 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 8/15/03, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Real World Enterprise Reports Using VB6 And VB .NET by Carl Ganz, Jr. I spent my entire career running from Crystal Reports. I hated it in early releases of VB, and I still do in VB6 and .NET. Years ago I found refuge ... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 6/10/03, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	NET Windows Forms in a Nutshell by Ian Griffiths, Matthew Adams This book is thicker than your average O'Reilly title. The topic at hand really forces that. The book provides a deep look into inner workings of wi... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 4/24/03, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	.NET System Management Services by Alexander Golomshtok This book is intended for both system administrators and developers. If you work in a small company, chances are you have been recruited to be an adm... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 4/24/03, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Moving to VB.NET: Strategies, Concepts, and Code by Daniel Appleman For better or for worse, Dan Appleman's books are always compared to his Win32 API Guide, which has come to be very important to VB. Not to mention th... 4.5 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 8/27/01, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Murach's SQL for SQL Server by Bryan Syverson I love Murach's books. So simple to read & understand. I wish they were around when I was starting out. I also wish ... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 1/29/03, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Creating Applications with Mozilla by David Boswell, Brian King, Ian Oeschger, Pete Collins, Eric Murphy Normally, O'Reilly puts out really superb books, however this one sucks egg. This book is written by five different people and it shows, because ever... 2 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 10/26/02, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Writing Add-Ins for Visual Studio .NET by Les Smith I am known as a pretty efficient programmer (some say lazy). Many of the projects tha... 5 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 10/15/02, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Distributed .NET Programming in VB.NET by Tom Barnaby Despite the name of the book, it explores more than just Distributed computing, even though it is the underlying theme. I loved the first chapter whi... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 6/19/02, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Advanced .NET Remoting in VB.NET by Ingo Rammer This book opened my eyes to a lot of possibilities. Initially, I thought .NET Remoting was a rehash of Remote Automation and DCOM from vb4-vb6 days. ... 5 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 5/29/02, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Murach's Beginning Visual Basic .NET by Anne Prince Just as Murach's beginner's guide to VB classic was truly the best way to learn VB, so is this book worthy of being called the succes... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 8/22/02, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	User Interfaces in VB .NET: Windows Forms and Custom Controls by Matthew MacDonald This is a serious and comprehensive book on Windows Forms. In fact, the entire book is devoted to this subject, which is a nice & welcome change from... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 8/07/02, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	.NET Security by Jason Bock, Pete Stromquist, Tom Fischer, Nathan Smith .NET Security is a big subject, not just in terms of sheer enormity of classes and terminology, but also in terms of it being a large issue. Microsof... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 8/07/02, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Programming Visual Basic for the Palm OS by Patrick Burton, Roger Knoell, Matt Holmes Palm OS has been off limits to VB programmers for a while. However, AppForge has created a toolkit that allows you to write VB code and compile it to... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 7/25/02, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	GDI+ Programming in C# and VB.NET by Nick Symmonds Writing effective graphics code has always been difficult, required good skills and was something left to C++ and assembly gurus. While .NET somewhat ... 5 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 7/25/02, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	ADO.NET Examples and Best Practices for C# Programmers by Peter Blackburn, William R. Vaughn What do you get when you cross-polinate a well-recognized authority on data access in VB with a C# expert? Well, nothing really, except for two fat g... 5 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 6/20/02, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Distributed .NET Programming in C# by Tom Barnaby<ð´ÿ Despite the name of the book, it explores more than just Distributed computing, even though it is the underlying theme. I loved the first chapter whi... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 6/19/02, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Advanced .NET Remoting by Ingo Rammer This book opened my eyes to a lot of possibilities. Initially, I thought .NET Remoting was a rehash of Remote Automation and DCOM from vb4-vb6 days. ... 5 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 5/29/02, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	COM and .NET Interoperability by Andrew Troelsen Andrew Troelsen seems to be a man on a roll. Shortly after cranking out the gigantic Advanced Guide to VB.NET and .NET in general, this piece comes ... 5 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 5/13/02, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Visual Basic .NET: The Tutorials by Karl Moore 12 chairs it ain't, but it is the funniest programming book... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 5/13/02, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Real World ASP.NET: Building a Content Management System by Stephen Fraser Content Management Systems are expensive. Commercial ones can run into thousands. One of the great side benefits of this book is that you get a CM... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 5/01/02, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Programming ASP.NET by Jesse Liberty, Dan Hurwitz Jesse Liberty's previous attempts at a book (Programming C# by O'Reilly) was a resounding success, so I looked to this book to provide a followup, and... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 5/01/02, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Palm Programming in Basic by Jon Kilburn I've always been curious about programming for Palm, given that I've written some software for Casio Zoomer, HP200 and Blackberry handhelds some years... 3 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 5/01/02, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	ADO.NET and ADO Examples and Best Practices for VB Programmers (Second Edition) by Bill Vaughn The first edition of this book was great. This one adds several hundred pages and coverage of ADO.NET. I consider myself to be an expert at ADO, in ... 5 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 3/19/02, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World by Christopher Duncan Pure & simple, thi—Âýãok is the best one I've read in the past two years. It is simply that brilliant. It describes you - the programmer, your boss ... 5 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 2/22/02, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon Exclusive interview with the author
	Linux in a small business. by John P. Lathrop Normally publishers just send us books to review. This one, I requested purely out of interest and need. If you work for a large corporation, you ma... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 2/22/02, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	.NET Framework Essentials by Thuan Thai and Noang Q. Lam Microsoft's .Net is vastly different from its predecessor Visual Studio 6.0. The change is not just in syntax or framework, but in the programming pa... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, , by Kohinoor Basu Purchase at Amazon
	Programming VB .NET: A Guide For Experienced Programmers by Gary Cornell, Jonathan Morrison I've seen one of the authors of this book, Gary Cornell, speak at one of the VBITS events in NYC. Having read the book, I can say that he writes in t... 5 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 11/07/01, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Database Programming with Visual Basic.NET by Carsten Thomsen First of the inevitable stream of ado.net books, this one sets a pretty high standard. The reading is pretty easy and the language is surprisingly cl... 4 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 11/07/01, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Advanced Visual Basic 6.0 by The Mandelbrot Set This book, as the name suggests, is directed towards relatively advanced Visual Basic developers and needless to say has been written by people who ar... 2 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 09/11/2001,by Kohinoor Basu Purchase at Amazon
	Inside C# by Tom Archer Great to get you started on C# and then shepherd you to the advanced areas of the language. This tome is long on useful code sample and short on help file rehashes (which is a good thing). All this is because the author had access to the guys & gals who actually developed the language 5 Fingers up	VBRad Review, 8/03/01, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Hooking and Subclassing with Visual Basi....> by Stephen Teilhet This book smashes through the limits of Visual Basic and shows us how to get to next level of programming. Not since Appleman's API guide has there been anything with such great potential. "Hooking & Subclassing with Visual Basic" is easily the best VB book in the last 3 years. 5 Fingers up and a star.	VBRad Review, 8/02/01, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon Exclusive interview with the author
	The Art and Science of Web Design by Jeffrey Veen The veteran of Webmonkey, HotWired, and HotBot web sites, has put out a definitive guide to building web sites. Normally technical books are full of dry facts but this one takes a different tack. I enjoyed reading the book and actually read it from cover to cover - something I rarely do for a technical book. 4 Fingers up.	VBRad Review, 6/29/01, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Introduction to Microsoft .NET, by David S. Platt Sometimes funny, sometimes amusing, David Platt covers the basics of .NET quickly and clearly. Must read. 5 Fingers up.	VBRad Review, 6/19/01, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon Read Chapter 3 from the Publisher
	ADO Examples and Best Practices, by William R. Vaughns This book is great for mid to advanced users of ADO. If you are not one of those, you might want to get a "For Dummies" first and then move up to this one. If you are in the right category, though, this tome will vastly enhance your knowledge of ADO, improve your coding skills and will make you aware of many gotchas, we don't normally think about with ADO. 4 Fingers up.	VBRad Review, 6/19/01, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon Read Chapter 5 from the Publisher (Adobe Acrobat required)
	Javascript 1.5, by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes and Kathy Kingsley-Hughes Fast paced "get up to speed quickly" guide to JavaScript. You won't waste time with this one as it allows you to quickly glean what you need. Excellent samples. 5 Fingers up.	VBRad Review, 2/19/01, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	MCSD In a Nutshell, by James Foxall A study guide for the experienced vb programmer, designed to help you prep for Microsoft's VB MCSD Exams 70-175 and 70-176. 5 Fingers up.	vbRAD Review, 2/15/01, by Matthew Ferry Sample Chapter Purchase at Amazon
	Murach's Visual Basic 6, by Ed Koop, Anne Price, Joel Murach A very thorough and complete tutorial or learning aid for VB, designed to help novice and intermediate VB programmers take their skillset to the next level. Not much for experts, however. 4 Fingers up.	VBRad Reviw, 2/14/01, by Robert Gelb /.ÿ le Chapter (in PDF format) Purchase at Amazon
	Dan Appleman's Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API, by Dan Appleman The most current version of the standard VB API reference. Very useful tool for if you want to push VB beyond its limits. 4.5 Fingers up.	VBRad Review, 6/15/00, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Developing COM Components with VB6, by Dan Appleman One of the better books available on the subject. Covers everything you need to know to produce quality COM components. 5 Fingers up.	VBRad Review, 5/19/00, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon
	Professional Active Server Pages 3.0, by Fifteen People. A very detailed and thorough description of ASP 3.0 Technology, and some of the Windows 2000 based server technologies. Verbose. 4 Fingers up.	VBRad Review, 5/5/00, by Robert Gelb Purchase at Amazon