Appendix A. Suggestions for Further Reading

The following is a list of books you may find helpful as you learn about .NET and SQL Server 2000 and for developing your professional skills in general. You'll notice that, while I haven't mentioned books that focus on COM, I've included several COM+ books. This is because most of the information in these COM+ books is still valid because the programming model for writing serviced components in .NET is very similar to writing COM+ components, say, in VB6. The number of .NET books is on the thin side because I wrote this book early on in the days of .NET. Good .NET books will certainly enter the market in the coming months; therefore, you can find an up-to-date reference list at this book's Web site at www.samspublishing.com.

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Beck, K. Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change. Addison-Wesley; 1999. ISBN 0-201-61641-6

Ben-Gan, I. and T. Moreau. Advanced Transact-SQL for SQL Server 2000. Apress; 2000. ISBN 1-893115-82-8

Bernstein, P. A. and E. Newcomer. Principles of Transaction Processing. Morgan Kaufmann; 1996. ISBN 1558604154

Booch, G., Rumbaugh, J., and I. Jacobson. The Unified Modeling Language User Guide. Addison-Wesley; 1998. ISBN 0-201-57168-4

Brill, G. Applying COM+. New Riders; 2001. ISBN 0-7357-0978-5

Brown, R., Baron, W., and W. D. Chadwick III. Designing Solutions with COM+ Technologies. Microsoft Press; 2001. ISBN 0-73561127-0

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Schmidt, D., Stal, M., Rohnert, H. and F. Buschmann Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: Volume 2: Patterns for Concurrent and Networked Objects. Wiley; 2000. ISBN 0-471-60695-2

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