526 Appendix
Visual Basic Programming
n Visual Basic 2010 Programmer’s Reference, by Rod Stephens (Wrox,
ISBN 978-0-470-49983-2).
n Professional Visual Studio 2010, by Nick Randolph, David Gardner, Chris Anderson,
and Michael Minutillo (Wrox, ISBN 978-0470548653).
n Programming Windows Services with Microsoft Visual Basic 2008, by Michael Gernaey
(Microsoft Press, ISBN 978-0-7356-2433-7).
n Practical Guidelines and Best Practices for Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C# Developers,
by Francesco Balena and Giuseppe Dimauro (Microsoft Press, ISBN 978-0-7356-2172-5).
n Programming Microsoft Visual Basic 2005: The Language, by Francesco Balena
(Microsoft Press, ISBN 978-0-7356-2183-1). This book covers Visual Basic 2005, but it
is still very useful because many of the language features remain the same between
versions.Microsoft .NET Framework
n Microsoft .NET Internals, by Tom Christian (Microsoft Press, ISBN 978-0-7356-2675-1).
Takes Visual Studio 2010 programmers deep into the architecture and inner workings
of the .NET Framework. Offers a tour the core framework and the tools that extend
.NET, including Silverlight, WPF, WCF, and WF.
n MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-536): Microsoft® .NET Framework–Application
Development Foundation, Second Edition, by Tony Northup (Microsoft Press,
ISBN 0-7356-2619-7).
n Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation: A Scenario-Based Approach, by Billy Hollis
(Microsoft Press, ISBN 978-0-7356-2418-4).
n Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation Step by Step, by Kenn Scribner (Microsoft
Press, ISBN 978-0-7356-2335-4).
n Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation Step by Step, by John Sharp (Microsoft
Press, ISBN 978-0-7356-2336-1).Database Programming with ADO .NET
n Programming the Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework, by David Sceppa (Microsoft
Press, ISBN 978-0-7356-2529-7). The Entity Framework allows developers to construct
their application model and then map the application model to their database schema.
Developers write queries using either Language Integrated Query (LINQ) or Entity
SQL. The Entity Framework converts the LINQ expressions or Entity SQL queries into
database queries based on the mapping information supplied.