---
title: "Books to buy"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/4/books-to-buy.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/4/books-to-buy.html"
published: "2003-09-04T05:03:00"
updated: "2003-09-04T05:03:00"
tags: [".Net Original"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Here's the list of books my company is planning to buy in the next few days (suggestions are welcome) : Windows Forms Programming in C# Essential .NET, Volume I: The Common Language Runtime Patterns of Enterprise…"
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/"
---

# Books to buy

By Roy Osherove September 4, 2003 In [.Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original)

**Historical article** · Originally published September 4, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

Here's the list of books my company is planning to buy in the next few days (suggestions are welcome) :

[Windows Forms Programming in C#](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321116208/iserializable-20)

[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)

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

[About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0764526413/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)

[.NET and COM: The Complete Interoperability Guide](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/067232170X/iserializable-20)

[Pair Programming Illuminated](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201745763/iserializable-20)

[Streamlined Object Modeling: Patterns, Rules, and Implementation](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130668397/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)

## More in .Net Original

[All posts in .Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original)

- Sep 4, 2003

    ### [Automatic Data-Relations](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/4/automatic-data-relations.html)

- Sep 4, 2003

    ### [Debugging shortcuts - Run to cursor, Find next statement](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/4/debugging-shortcuts-run-to-cursor-find-next-statement.html)

- Sep 3, 2003

    ### [Israel Visual Basic User Group today - on ADO.Net](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/3/israel-visual-basic-user-group-today-on-adonet.html)

- Sep 1, 2003

    ### [Hosting the CLR - the native approach](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/1/hosting-the-clr-the-native-approach.html)


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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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- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
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- [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.
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