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Are you looking to learn more about ASP.NET and ADO.NET? This is a great place to start! Meet the Expert - He is a member of the Wintellect team and writes the "Cutting Edge" column for MSDN Magazine. |
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Dino Esposito
is a trainer and consultant based in Rome, Italy. A member of the Wintellect team, Dino specializes in ASP.NET and ADO.NET and spends most of his time teaching and consulting across Europe and the United States. A prolific author, Dino writes the "Cutting Edge" column for MSDN Magazine and contributes to Microsoft's ASP.NET DevCenter and several other publications including asp.netPRO and CoDe Magazine.
In the past, Dino also wrote several books for Wrox Press, two of which are still considered important references in their respective areas: Windows Shell Programming, and Windows Script Host Programmer's Reference. Other books include Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Developer Reference, Programming Microsoft ASP.NET, Introducing ASP.NET 2.0 and Applied XML Programming with the .NET Framework, all from Microsoft Press. Up-to-date information about upcoming articles and books can be found in his blog http://weblogs.asp.net/despos.
Dino co-founded DotNet-2-the-Max (www.dotnet2themax.com), a popular web site full of free technical information for .NET developers. When not writing or teaching, Dino speaks at industry events such as Microsoft TechEd, DevConnections and European DevWeek.
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 In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters, 2nd Edition by Merrill R. Chapman --
This amazing book is an eye-opener to explain some of the mysteries around software products of the past. It could possibly avoid a good product of yours mysteriously disappearing in the future.
(The author's original choice was an older edition that is now out of print. This link is to the current edition)
 Designing Applications with MSMQ: Message Queuing for Developers by Alan Dickman --
Honestly, I never had too much to do with queue-based applications. However, for a time it seemed that I was going to and I wanted to prepare myself well for the task. This book showed it wouldn't have been that hard. Very well done.
 Writing Secure Code by Michael Howard and David LeBlanc --
They told me this book is required reading at Microsoft. And with good reason. A must-read for every serious developer.
Programming Windows (Out of Print) by Charles Petzold --
I grew up with this book. It sharpened my wit and shaped up my mind to Windows. My career wouldn't have been the same without this book.
Developing Microsoft ASP.NET Server Controls and Components (Out of Print)
by Nikhil Kothari and Vandana Datye --
The must-have and must-read guide to ASP.NET control developers.
 Essential XML Quick Reference: A Programmer's Reference to XML, XPath, XSLT, XML Schema, SOAP, and More by Martin Gudgin and Aaron Skonnard --
This is another book that rented a space on my desk for life. Extremely useful to catch up with a variety of XML-related standards.
 The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh --
This book offers an excellent introduction to those (like me) wishing to understand how the human need for privacy has manifested itself over the centuries through various forms of cryptography and decipherment. Some of the concepts and algorithms discussed will sound familiar to software developers.
Advanced Windows (Out of Print) by Jeffrey Richter --
For a long time I was unable to read this book. It was a nut that was too hard to crack for my fragile teeth. It took me years to keep up with it and when it happened, I felt like a superhero.
Instant HTML 4.0 (Out of Print) by Alex Homer, Chris Ullmann and Steve Wright --
This book is still often on my desk whenever I need to read about a particular attribute or HTML tag. Sure, there are online guides but flicking through the pages of a book is a priceless experience.
Understanding ActiveX and OLE (Out of Print) by David Chappell --
It was an excellent guide to developers and helped a fresh manager (formerly, a seasoned developer) like I was to make sense of that weird thing called OLE.
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