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title: "Must-have books for my new job"
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published: "2003-07-18T21:44:00"
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author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "My new job asked me to give a list of books that I think would be needed, so I made this one: (note: some books are not here because they already have them) Essential .NET, Volume I: The Common Language Runtime…"
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# Must-have books for my new job

By Roy Osherove July 18, 2003 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published July 18, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

My new job asked me to give a list of books that I think would be needed, so I made this one:

(note: some books are not here because they already have them)

[Essential .NET, Volume I: The Common Language Runtime](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201734117/qid=1058574497/sr=8-3/ref=sr_8_3/iserializable-20)

[Debugging Applications for Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Windows](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735615365/ref=pd_sxp_elt_l1/iserializable-20)

[Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321127420/ref=pd_sim_books_3/iserializable-20)

[Inside Microsoft .NET IL Assembler](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735615470/ref=pd_sxp_elt_l1/iserializable-20)

[Programming Windows with C# (Core Reference)](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735613702/ref=pd_sxp_elt_l1/iserializable-20)

[.NET Framework Security](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/067232184X/ref=pd_sxp_elt_l1/iserializable-20)

[Microsoft ADO.NET (Core Reference)](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735614237/ref=pd_sxp_elt_l1/iserializable-20)

[Programming .NET Components](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596003471/iserializable-20)

[Transactional COM+: Building Scalable Applications](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201615940/qid=1058575074/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/iserializable-20)

can you recommend other good books? The focus is on being able to get in to the very core of .net framework, to know how everything works from the inside, and be able to examing, at runtime, anything within the CLR.

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## 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.

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