No books yet (scheduled for Q2 2001 I think), best bet is the wiki and to follow the various blogs that are on the homepage and to use twitter stream to find #umbraco buddies.
Assuming you know enough to get by, I personally wouldn't bother too much with Webforms, as I think it's destined only to exist in legacy and intranet apps now. Once Umbraco goes to v5 it's not a tech I plan on returning to. I can thoroughly recommend the following books on ASP.NET MVC however:
Pro ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework (Apress) - Especially if you're new to ASP.NET MVC. Unlike a lot of tutorial sites / books out there, it walks you through building an application using good practices such as dependency injection, mocking, TDD etc.
ASP.NET MVC 2 In Action (Manning) - The 'other' great book on ASP.NET MVC. Not as accessible as the Apress book, it reads a bit more like a best practices guide / cookbook. A great read to follow the Apress book up with though.
Also - CLR Via C# is a really interesting read for general .NET stuff if you really want to learn what goes on under the hood.
.NET books and umbraco related books
I was thinking about spending some time reading a few books to improve my .net / umbraco skills.
Which books can you guys recommend?
No books yet (scheduled for Q2 2001 I think), best bet is the wiki and to follow the various blogs that are on the homepage and to use twitter stream to find #umbraco buddies.
Cheers,
/Dirk
Okay :), what about general .net books?
Here's some .NET books I recommend
Framework Design Guidelines (2nd Edition): http://www.amazon.com/Framework-Design-Guidelines-Conventions-Libraries/dp/0321545613/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1283468092&sr=8-1
C# in Depth (2nd or 3rd Edition): http://www.amazon.com/Depth-What-you-need-master/dp/1933988363/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1283468149&sr=1-1
Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0: http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-ASP-NET-MVC-Simone-Chiaretta/dp/047043399X/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1283468188&sr=1-11
The Art of Unit Testing: http://www.amazon.com/Art-Unit-Testing-Examples-Net/dp/1933988274/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1283468226&sr=1-1
LINQ in Action: http://www.amazon.com/LINQ-Action-Fabrice-Marguerie/dp/1933988169/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1283468314&sr=8-3
I'd also recommend reading the ECMA spec for C# (ECMA-334) and the CLR (ECMA-335)
Assuming you know enough to get by, I personally wouldn't bother too much with Webforms, as I think it's destined only to exist in legacy and intranet apps now. Once Umbraco goes to v5 it's not a tech I plan on returning to. I can thoroughly recommend the following books on ASP.NET MVC however:
Pro ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework (Apress) - Especially if you're new to ASP.NET MVC. Unlike a lot of tutorial sites / books out there, it walks you through building an application using good practices such as dependency injection, mocking, TDD etc.
ASP.NET MVC 2 In Action (Manning) - The 'other' great book on ASP.NET MVC. Not as accessible as the Apress book, it reads a bit more like a best practices guide / cookbook. A great read to follow the Apress book up with though.
Also - CLR Via C# is a really interesting read for general .NET stuff if you really want to learn what goes on under the hood.
Thanks guys!
Exactly what I needed to know ;-).
I guess i really should get started with reading some MVC right away, haven't been looking to much into it.
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