How many .NET related books do you own?

Question

User-1136967153 posted

1. ASP.NET Cookbook by Oreilly
   
2. Professional ASP.NET 2.0 by Wrox
3. Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 in VB 2005 by apress
4. Programming Microsoft Visual Basic 2005: The Language by Microsoft Press
5. Pro Scalable .NET 2.0 Application Designs
6. Visual C# 2005 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach
7. Essential C#
8. .NET for Visual FoxPro Developers

This is my current list of .NET books.  I'm wondering how many books on .NET other developers own. 

Answer 1

User1109032460 posted

I would guess about 60 or 70 (including three I wrote myself, but don't worry, I'm not going to recommend them).

There are probably a half a dozen or so essential ones, but as a general rule, buy anything by

Fritz Onion (on ASP.NET - superb coverage of all the meaty bits of ASP.NET)
Chris Sells (on Windows Forms/WPF - simply awesome)
Adam Nathan (on Interop/WPF - again, very thorough coverage)
Jeff Prosise (one of the best technical authors and speakers on the planet)
Jeff Richter (really good coverage of "boring" stuff like collections, delegates, threads, etc.)
John Robbins (on debugging)
Brian Noyes (if you're into data binding)
Juval Lowy (on components)

Answer 2

User-1136967153 posted

I'm no where near 60 and my wife thinks I buy too many computer books.  I'll have to check out some of the authors you listed.  I've always found there is quite a bit of overlap with a lot of programming books but each one seems to have a few good sections that others don't so I end up buying more.

I would guess about 60 or 70 (including three I wrote myself, but don't worry, I'm not going to recommend them).

There are probably a half a dozen or so essential ones, but as a general rule, buy anything by

Fritz Onion (on ASP.NET - superb coverage of all the meaty bits of ASP.NET)
Chris Sells (on Windows Forms/WPF - simply awesome)
Adam Nathan (on Interop/WPF - again, very thorough coverage)
Jeff Prosise (one of the best technical authors and speakers on the planet)
Jeff Richter (really good coverage of "boring" stuff like collections, delegates, threads, etc.)
John Robbins (on debugging)
Brian Noyes (if you're into data binding)
Juval Lowy (on components)

Answer 3

User-825580312 posted

About 60 for me. 16 new ones where delievered today. [:D]

Answer 4

User-1136967153 posted

16 in what day[:|]

I guess I have some catching up to do.

 

Which ones are your favorites? 

 

About 60 for me. 16 new ones where delievered today. [:D]

Answer 5

User-1311022226 posted

Uh, I only got three [:$]:

 

1) ASP.NET 2.0 for Dummies.

2) The Wrox Starter Kit.

3) The Wrox Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 With C#. 

Answer 6

User-1853252149 posted

I've got about 40 or so, though some are really specialized.  And a few are outdated.  And some should really be tossed out as worthless or too outdated.  Not to count the many I've already recycled or donated, or lost to co-workers. 

I find myself grabbing every book on a subject I have to bone up on, which means probably 80% of them get perused once and buried.  There are few I keep within reach more than a few months or so.  For example, I currently have WROX's IIS 7 and ASP.NET Integrated Programming (Khosravi, 2007) right at hand because I'm working with extending IIS 7.  In six months I may not even have it in my office.  But I've had ASP.NET 2.0 Unleashed (Walther, 2006) on my desk since I got it.

I once figured I had just over a ton of books on my shelves.  Good thing I have concrete walls and floor.  :)

Jeff

Answer 7

User1230978511 posted
I would say around 25-30, some of which are simply old. Altogether, I have probably 50-60 technical books.

Answer 8

User1078379023 posted

You can't go much better than the WROX books in my opinion.

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Answer 9

User-1472217056 posted

I really don't know how many ASP.NET books I've. They are all scattered all over the place. I've books published by Sams, Addison-Wesley, Packt, Que.

Answer 10

User1025835579 posted

~5 .NET books.  The one on my desk at all times is now ASP.NET 3.5 Unleashed.  I also recently purchased the Definitive Guide for JavaScript and that sits on my desk as well.  I sorely need to brush up there.