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Programming .NET Components Review by Jake Gay
Can be considered a general, concise book on Software Programming...
Microsoft technology has generated some really good books on software programming over the years. This book is definitely one of them. The difference between this book and the others may lie in the fact that it is published by O'Reilly. This book is devoted to the latest Microsoft technology, but it is really a book that explains the basic principles behind all software programming.
You can read this book and substitute any other language, for example Java, to implement the principles elucidated. Of course, the set of software principles is much vaster than in this book, but there are not too many tomes that concisely and clearly explain the fundamental principles that have to show up in any software application.
And it also shows how elegant a job Microsoft has done with DotNet to implement these ubiquitous principles and make their usage incredibly easy. After the pain and torture of their earlier technology (eg. COM), this shines in contrast. Took me back to the joys of programming in plain old Basic and Visual Basic once upon a time. They must have done something right when the open-source advocates jump to implement their own version of DotNet.