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.NET General

• Debugging Microsoft® .NET 2.0 Applications, 3rd Edition
  John Robbins - Microsoft Press, November 2006  

ADO.NET

• Microsoft® ADO.NET 4 Step by Step
  Tim Patrick - Microsoft Press, October 2010

ASP.NET

• Microsoft® ASP.NET 4 Step by Step
  George Shepherd - Microsoft Press, April 2010
• Programming Microsoft® ASP.NET 4
  Dino Esposito - Microsoft Press, February 2011

Best Practices

• Clean Code
  Robert C. Martin - Prentice-Hall
• Code Complete, 2nd Edition
  Steve McConnell - Microsoft Press, June 2004
• Domain Driven Design
  Eric Evans - Addison-Wesley, 2004
• Framework Design Guidelines 
  Krzysztof Cwalina, Brad Abrams - Addison-Wesley, 2009
• I. M. Wright's "Hard Code": A Decade of Hard-Won Lessons from Microsoft®, Second Edition
  Eric Brechner - Microsoft Press, July 2011
• Refactoring, Improving the design of existing code
  Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, Don Roberts - Addison-Wesley, 1999
• The Security Development Lifecycle
  Michael Howard, Steve Lipner - Microsoft Press, May 2006
• Writing Secure Code, 2nd Edition
  Michael Howard, David LeBlanc - Microsoft Press, December 2004
• Writing Secure Code for Windows Vista
  Michael Howard, David LeBlanc - Microsoft Press, April 2007
• Patterns & practices Application Architecture Guide 2.0
   J.D. Meier, Alex Homer, David Hill, Jason Taylor, Prashant Bansode, Lonnie Wall, Rob Boucher Jr, Akshay Bogawat- Microsoft, Jan 2008

C/C++

• Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs (3rd Edition)
  Scott Meyers - Pearson Education, Inc, 2005
• More Effective C++: 35 New Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs 
  Scott Meyers - Pearson Education, Inc, 1996
• Programming Windows, 5th Edition
  Charles Petzold - Microsoft Press, November 1998
• The C Programming Language, 2nd Edition
  Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie - Prentice Hall, 1988
• The C++ Programming Language, 3rd Edition
  Bjarne Stroustrup - Addison-Wesley Professional, 1997
• Windows via C/C++, 5th Edition
  Jeffrey Richter, Christophe Nasarre - Microsoft Press, February 2009

C#

• CLR via C#, 2nd Edition
  Jeffrey Richter - Microsoft Press, February 2006
• CLR via C#, 3rd Edition
  Jeffrey Richter - Microsoft Press, February 2010
• CLR via C#, Fourth Edition
  Jeffrey Richter - Microsoft Press, October 2012  
• Effective C# (Covers C# 4.0): 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C# (2nd Edition) 
  Bill Wagner - Pearson Education, Inc, 2010
• More Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#
  Bill Wagner - Pearson Education, Inc, 2009
• C# in Depth, Second Edition
  Jon Skeet - Manning Publications, 2010
• Programming C# 5.0
  Ian Griffiths - O'Reilly Media, October 2012 

Debugging

• Inside Windows Debugging
  Tarik Soulami - Microsoft Press, May 2012

Microsoft Foundation Class

• Programming Windows with MFC, Second Edition
  Jeff Prosise - Microsoft Press, May 1999

Microsoft Kinect for Windows

• Programming with the Kinect™ for Windows® Software Development Kit
  David Catuhe - Microsoft Press, September 2012
• Start Here!™ Learn the Kinect™ API
  Rob Miles - Microsoft Press, June 2012

SharePoint

• Inside Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010
  Ted Pattison, Andrew Connell, Scot Hillier, David Mann - Microsoft Press, Febbraio 2011
• Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 Developer Reference
  Paolo Pialorsi - Microsoft Press, Marzo 2011
• Professional SharePoint 2010 Development, 2nd Edition
  Thomas Rizzo, Reza Alirezaei, Jeff Fried, Paul J Swider, Scot Hillier, Ken Schaefer - Wiley/Wrox, Marzo 2012
• Professional Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010
  Brad Stevenson, Scot Hillier - Wiley/Wrox, Gennaio 2011
• Beginning SharePoint 2010 Building Business Solutions with SharePoint
  Amanda Perran, Shane Perran, Jennifer Mason, Laura Rogers - Wrox Publications, Dicembre 2010

SQL Server

• SQL Server Books (Wiki)

Visual Basic

• Programming Microsoft® Visual Basic® 6.0
  Francesco Balena - Microsoft Press, June 1999
• Programming Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET (Core Reference)
  Francesco Balena - Microsoft Press, May 2002
• Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2010 Developer's Handbook
  Klaus Löffelmann, Sarika Calla Purohit - Microsoft Press, August 2011

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)

• Applications = Code + Markup: A Guide to the Microsoft® Windows® Presentation Foundation
  Charles Petzold - Microsoft Press, August 2006
• 3D Programming for Windows
  Charles Petzold - Microsoft Press, July 2007

See Also

• E-Book Gallery for Microsoft Technologies
• Wiki: Development Portal (en-US)

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• Books in Russian:
  • Джон Скит. C#. Программирование для профессионалов (ru-Ru)
  • Джеффри Рихтер. CLR via C#. Программирование на платформе Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 на языке C# (ru-Ru)