Appendix B: Recommended Reading

I recommend the following books and online resources, categorized by topic and relevance.

Remoting

Rammer, Ingo. Advanced .NET Remoting. Apress, 2002.

Rammer, Ingo. Advanced .NET Remoting in VB .NET. Apress, 2002.

Object-Oriented Design/UML

Lau, Yun-Tung. The Art of Objects: Object-Oriented Design and Architecture. Addison-Wesley, 2000.

Fowler, Martin, and Kendall Scott. UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language, Second Edition. Addison-Wesley, 1999.

Security

Howard, Michael, and David C. LeBlanc. Writing Secure Code, Second Edition. Microsoft Press, 2002.

LaMacchia, Brian A.,Sebastian Lange,Matthew Lyons,Rudi Martin, and Kevin T. Price. .NET Framework Security. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2002.

Bock, Jason,Pete Stromquist,Tom Fischer, and Nathan Smith. .NET Security. Apress, 2002.

Note

The Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center Web site (http://www.cert.org) contains information about current viruses and other security alerts. Additionally, you can subscribe to numerous security mailing lists on the SecurityFocus Web site (http://www.securityfocus.com).

ADO.NET/Databases

Thomsen, Carsten. Database Programming with Visual Basic .NET. Apress, 2001.

Design Patterns

Gamma, Erich,Richard Helm,Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Addison-Wesley, 1995.

Shalloway, Alan, and James R. Trott. Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design. Addison-Wesley, 2001.

Fischer, Tom,John Slater,Peter Stromquist, and Cha-Ur Wu. Professional Design Patterns in VB.NET: Building Adaptable Applications. Wrox Press, 2002.

Regular Expressions

Appleman, Dan. Regular Expressions with .NET. Daniel Appleman, 2002.

Globalization and Localization

Symmonds, Nick. Internationalization and Localization Using Microsoft .NET. Apress, 2002.

Business Rules

Lhotka, Rockford. Visual Basic 6.0 Business Objects. Wrox Press, 1998.

.NET Framework (Intermediate Language)

Gough, John. Compiling for the .NET Common Language Runtime. Prentice Hall, 2001.

Visual Basic .NET Primer

Moore, Karl. Karl Moore's Visual Basic .NET: The Tutorials. Apress, 2002.

Web Services and UDDI

http://www.uddi.org: The home page of the UDDI Technical Committee in charge of the UDDI specification

http://uddi.microsoft.com: Microsoft's UDDI Business Registry and information Web site

http://uddi.ibm.com: IBM's UDDI Business Registry and information Web site

http://www.w3c.org: World Wide Web Consortium, responsible for almost all standards that govern the Internet, including SOAP and XML

General .NET Web Sites

http://www.microsoft.com/net: Microsoft's .NET Framework home page

http://www.microsoft.com/vstudio: Microsoft's Visual Studio home page

http://www.gotdotnet.com: A host of links, sample code, and helpful tips and news from the .NET product teams

http://www.dotnet247.com: Independent .NET Web site that is well organized and contains hundreds of code samples and explanations

http://www.devx.com: Good general Web site covering multiple languages