What are your must have books?

I have several "must have" books or Bibles as some people call them (usually worth their weight in gold), here is a list of my currently used books:

I have a buch of Wrox books that I use to use all the time (especially ASP 2.0 and ASP 3.0), but for those topics I now use either MSDN library (I have the full install on my laptop) or Google.

What books would you not give up?

posted on Thursday, April 29, 2004 5:38 PM

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# re: What are your must have books?

Programming C# by jesse Liberty - simply the best C# coding book around.
Programming .Net Components by Juval lowy - best 'advanced' .NET book around.
I cannot recommend these two highly enough.
4/29/2004 1:41 PM | Scott Galloway

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Scott: Programming .Net Components looks good (on Amazon anyways - great reviews). I really like the advanced books these days .. I can't get myself to buy another .net soup-to-nuts book (with little depth to it - good for getting up to speed - but I'm already up to speed)
4/29/2004 1:49 PM | Jason haley

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Scott: BTW - I love "Pretty Hate Machine" - best album NIN ever put out!
4/29/2004 1:50 PM | Jason haley

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My only wouldn't-part-with-it book is "the camel book".
For all things .NET(well, MS in general, really), it's usually so much faster and easier to go online - the MSDN books "online", the MSDN site, windowsforms.net, asp.net(the site), dotnetjunkies.com, and as always, a google search(usually with a limiter set to microsoft.com for msdn articles I remember seeing that had that paragraph that's exactly what I need for widget x right now).
4/29/2004 4:20 PM | tomrowton

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There is now a newer addition...but the book that saves my but a couple of times a week is "Pure Javascript"

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=ZYw19im4KA&isbn=0672315475&itm=4

4/29/2004 4:42 PM | Kevin Blakeley

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hmmm, for every day use I think the C#, CSS, and Javascript pocket references from O'Reilly.

In general, probably "Code Complete" by Steve McConnel. It should be required reading for any developer regardless of their chosen language/platform.
4/29/2004 5:10 PM | Scott

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I second the "Pure JavaScript". And, you can get it used for less than $5 on Amazon, no reason not to have it if you use any client-side JS. Very goos DOM reference and Regular Expressions in the newer version.

"Two others are ASP.NET Data Web Controls Kickstart" by Scott Mitchell and Brian Bischof' "Crystal Reports .NET Programming".
4/30/2004 1:03 AM | Richard Dudley

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The Book that I've with me now is "Programming ASP.NET" (by Dino Esposito)... but the best book for me is Google ;)

4/30/2004 3:46 AM | Stefano Demiliani

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Stefano: That ASP.Net book is on my wish list to get...I heard it was a good one.
4/30/2004 6:39 AM | Jason Haley

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No kidden Mr. TA:

what about books recommended by Plattsky?


Another .net beginner.
10/25/2005 6:09 AM | from Fall 2005 .net class

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