--- title: "My Bookshelf" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/9/my-bookshelf.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/9/my-bookshelf.html" published: "2003-05-09T21:37:00" updated: "2003-05-09T21:37:00" tags: ["Other"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Books I want//Book of the month : .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 1: Base Class Library and Extended Numerics Library, 1/e Test-Driven Development in Microsoft .NET Writing Secure Code,…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # My Bookshelf By Roy Osherove May 9, 2003 In [Other](https://osherove.com/blog/category/other) **Historical article** · Originally published May 9, 2003; technical details may be outdated. **Books I want//Book of the month**: ### **[.NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 1: Base Class Library and Extended Numerics Library, 1/e](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321154894/iserializable-20)** ### **[Test-Driven Development in Microsoft .NET](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735619484/iserializable-20)** [Writing Secure Code, Second Edition](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735617228/iserializable-20) [.NET Security](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1590590538/iserializable-20) [101 Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Applications](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735618917/ref%3Dnosim/addallbooksearch/iserializable-20/iserializable-20) [Essential .NET, Volume I: The Common Language Runtime](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201734117/iserializable-20) [Google Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596004478/iserializable-20) [About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0764526413/iserializable-20) [Programming .NET Components](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596003471/iserializable-20) [Streamlined Object Modeling: Patterns, Rules, and Implementation](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130668397/iserializable-20) [Shared Source CLI Essentials](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/059600351X/iserializable-20) [How to Break Software: A Practical Guide to Testing](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201796198/iserializable-20) [Pair Programming Illuminated](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201745763/iserializable-20) **Book I own** ### **.Net** ### **[.NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 1: Base Class Library and Extended Numerics Library, 1/e](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321154894/iserializable-20)** ### **[Test-Driven Development in Microsoft .NET](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735619484/iserializable-20)** [Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321127420/iserializable-20) [.NET and COM: The Complete Interoperability Guide](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/067232170X/iserializable-20) [COM and .NET Component Services (O'Reilly Windows)](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596001037/iserializable-20) [Advanced .Net Remoting](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1590590252/iserializable-20) [ASP.NET Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution C# Edition](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1861006934/iserializable-20) [Applied Microsoft .Net Framework Programming](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735614229/iserializable-20) [Programming Windows with C#](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735613702/iserializable-20) [Inside C#](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735616485/iserializable-20) [MCAD/MCSD Training Guide (70-315): Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Visual C# and Visual Studio.NET](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0789728222/iserializable-20) [MCAD/MCSD Visual Basic(r) .NET(tm) Windows(r) Applications Study Guide (Exam 70-306)](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0072125837/iserializable-20) ### **VB** [VB Programmer’s Guide to the Win32API](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672315904/iserializable-20) [Advanced Visual Basic 6.0](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006L568/iserializable-20) [Ready To Run Visual Basic Algorithms](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471242683/iserializable-20) [C++ For VB Programmers](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1893115763/iserializable-20) [Developing COM/ActiveX Controls using Visual Basic](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1562765760/iserializable-20) ### **Practices & "Zen"** [Code Complete](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1556154844/iserializable-20) [The Pragmatic Programmer](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/020161622X/iserializable-20) [Are Your Lights On?](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0932633161/iserializable-20) [101 creative problem solving ways](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1883629004/iserializable-20) [Lateral Thinking](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060903252/iserializable-20) ### **XP** [Extreme Programming Applied](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201616408/iserializable-20) [Extreme Programming explained](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201616416/iserializable-20) ### **Interaction Design** [The Design of Everyday Things](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465067107/iserializable-20) [The inmates are running the asylum](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672316498/iserializable-20) [GUI Bloopers](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1558605827/iserializable-20) ### **Project Management** [Design Patterns](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201633612/iserializable-20) [Rapid Development](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1556159005/iserializable-20) [That Mythical Man-Month](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201835959/iserializable-20) [The Deadline](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0932633390/iserializable-20) [PeopleWare](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0932633439/iserializable-20) [Managing Software Requirements](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201615932/iserializable-20) [AntiPatterns](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471197130/iserializable-20) ### **Other** [The man who loved only numbers](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0786884061/iserializable-20) [Graph Drawing](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0133016153/iserializable-20) [How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Company Selects the Most Creative Thinkers](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0316919160/iserializable-20) ## More in Other [All posts in Other](https://osherove.com/blog/category/other) - Jun 11, 2003 ### [Announcing: .Net Desktops Contest](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/11/announcing-net-desktops-contest.html) - May 26, 2003 ### [.Net Debugging Resources](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/26/net-debugging-resources.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). 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