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Stephen Walther, a well-known ASP.NET expert and trainer, has provided training to companies and organizations throughout the United States including NASA, Verizon, MetLife, and the National Science Foundation through his company Superexpert AspWorkshops (http://www.AspWorkshops.com). He was the lead developer of the ASP.NET Community Starter Kit, a "best-practices" application released by Microsoft. Stephen was the past Chief Technical Officer of CityAuction, one of the Internet's top person-to-person auction Web sites, and the exclusive auction provider for both Snap! and CitySearch. Stephen was also past Chief Technical Officer of Collegescape, the leading provider of online college applications.
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 ASP.NET 1.1 Insider Solutions by Alex Homer --
This is a great book! Alex sat down and made a list of all of the cool and undocumented tricks that he has learned while building ASP.NET applications. It covers all sorts of advanced topics that you won't find in any other book. My favorite chapters are the ones that examine methods for creating combo boxes and progress bars for ASP.NET pages.
Developing Microsoft ASP.NET Server Controls and Components (Out of Print)
by Nikhil Kothari and Vandana Datye --
Nikhil is the member of the ASP.NET team who was responsible for developing several of the most important ASP.NET controls. For example, he created the DataGrid control. In this book, he reveals the secrets of ASP.NET control building. Simply stated, this is the bible for building ASP.NET controls.
 CLR via C#: Applied Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Programming, 2nd Edition by Jeffrey Richter --
Jeff goes deep in this book. There are many general survey books on the .NET Framework. This is one of the few available books that go deeply into the internals of the Framework. In this book, Jeff covers fascinating and undocumented topics such as the mechanics of garbage collection in the Framework.
(The author's original choice was an older edition that is now out of print. This link is to the current edition)
 The C# Programming Language, 2nd Edition by Anders Hejlsberg --
This is the best reference book on the C# language. This shouldn't be surprising since Anders was responsible for designing the C# language. I learned quite a bit about the C# language just by sitting down one week and reading this reference book from beginning to end.
(The author's original choice was an older edition that is now out of print. This link is to the current edition)
 ASP.NET Data Web Controls Kick Start by Scott Mitchell --
The DataGrid control is the most complicated control in the ASP.NET Framework. Before I read this book, I thought I knew everything there was to know about this control. I was wrong. Scott taught me how to do a number of advanced things with the DataGrid such as extend it to support custom columns.
ASP.NET 2.0 Beta Preview (Out of Print)
by Bill Evjen --
I know from experience that writing a BETA book on a technology is extremely challenging. A Beta technology is undocumented and it is in a constant state of flux. Bill does an admirable job of describing the new features of the ASP.NET 2.0 Framework. This is a huge topic and he covers the most important features in an easy to understand way.
 ASP.NET Developer's Cookbook by Steven Smith --
The concept behind this book is a great one. This book contains a collection of discrete and practical code samples that you can easily rip out of the book and use in your ASP.NET applications. I've stolen several code snippets from this book for applications that I have recently built.
Microsoft ASP.NET Coding Strategies with the Microsoft ASP.NET Team (Out of Print) by Mathew Gibbs, Nikhil Kothari, Rob Howard --
The author list for this book is scarily impressive. Mathew and Nikhil are the two members of the ASP.NET team that are responsible for the majority of the controls in the ASP.NET Framework. Rob Howard is the person responsible for several major features of the ASP.NET Framework such as Caching. This book covers a number of advanced topics that could only be covered by this team of authors.
 C# Network Programming by Richard Blum --
I got fascinated with the topic of building my own Web server and NNTP server and I went out and bought this book. I haven't been disappointed with it. This book does a good job of covering all the major network protocols and it goes far beyond the documentation on the network classes provided with the .NET Framework.
A Programmer's Introduction to C#, 2nd Edition (Out of Print)
by Eric Gunnerson --
This was one of the first books available at my local bookstore in Seattle on C#. I grabbed it immediately and found it to be a great introduction to the language.
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