Useful Reference Books（参考书目推荐）

I get a lot of requests from readers about which books are best for learning MFC, ASP, ATL, etc., but with hundreds of books coming out each year, and technology moving ahead in leaps and bounds, keeping up with what's best is hard. Which books have helped you the most?

Here's a list of faves sent in by readers. If you are just starting out in the industry then don't get lured into buying only books that deal with the language you are working in. Read books on how to program. You will save you and your employer a lot of stress. The "Programming Discipline and Design" section below lists a bunch of great books worth reading.

Programming Discipline and Design

Writing Solid Code - Steve Maguire
Mythical Man-Month - Frederick P. Brooks Jr
Code Complete - Steve McConnell

The Art of Computer Programming - Knuth
Algorithms - Robert Sedgewick
Debugging Applications - John Robbins
Taligent's Guide to Designing Programs - Taligent
Design Patterns - Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides
The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactices for an Imperfect World (Apress) - Christoper Duncan
Unite The Tribes - Christopher Duncan
Advanced Windows Debugging - Mario Hewardt, Daniel Pravat
Windows® Internals: Including Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, Fifth Edition (Pro Developer) - Mark Russinovich, David A. Solomon, Alex Ionescu
The Pragmatic Programmer - Andrew Hunt & David Thomas

The Psychology of Computer Programming - Gerald Weinberg

Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices - Robert C. Martin

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship - Robert C. Martin

The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in .Net - Roy Osherove

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture - Martin Fowler

Domain-Specific Languages - Martin Fowler

Continuous Delivery - Martin Fowler

Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Edition - Microsoft patterns & practices
The Developer’s <code> - Ka Wai Cheung
An Introduction to Software Architecture - Ka Wai Cheung
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software - Eric Evans

C / C++

The C Programming Language (Prentice Hall) - Kernigan and Ritchie
The C++ Programming Language - Bjarne Stroustroup
Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ - Bjarne Stroustroup
Effective and More Effective C++ - Scott Meyers
Inside Visual C++ - David J. Kruglinski
C++ How to Program - H. M. Deitel, P. J. Deitel
Thinking in C++ (2nd Ed) - Bruce Eckel

C#

A Programmer's Introduction to C#, 2nd edition (Apress) - Eric Gunnerson
Inside C#, 2nd edition (Microsoft Press) - Tom Archer
Component-Based Development with Visual C# (M&T books) - Ted Faison
C# Essentials, 2nd edition (O'Reilly) - Ben Albahari, Peter Drayton & Brad Merrill
C# in Depth - Jon Skeet

CLR via C#, 3rd Edition - Jeffrey Richter
C# Programming Language (Covering C# 4.0) - Anders Hejlsberg
Programming Entity Framework - Julia Lerman
C# 5.0 In a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference - Joseph Albahari & Ben Albahari

C# Yellow Book 2012 - Rob Miles

ASP.NET

Debugging ASP.NET (New Riders) - Jonathon Goodyear, Brian Peek, Brad Fox
Designing Microsoft ASP.NET Applications (Microsoft Press) - Jonathon Goodyear, Brian Peek, Brad Fox
Microsoft ASP.NET Step by Step (Microsoft Press) - G. Andrew Duthrie
Deploying and Managing Microsoft .NET Web Farms (Sams) - Barry Bloom
Professional ASP.NET MVC 3 (Wrox) - Jon Galloway, Phil Haack, Brad Wilson, K. Scott Allen

Windows API

Programming Windows 95 - Charles Petzold and Paul Yao
Programming Applications for Windows - Jeffrey Richter
Advanced Windows - Jeffrey Richter
Visual C++ Windows Shell Programming - Dino Esposito

MFC

Programming Windows 95 with MFC - Jeff Prosise
MFC Internals - George Shepherd and Scot Wingo
Professional MFC with Visual C++ - Mike Blaszczak

ASP

Professional ASP Techniques for Webmasters - Alex Homer

Database

CE

Windows CE Developers Handbook - Terence A. Goggin
Programming Windows CE - Douglas Boling (Microsoft Press)
Essential Windows CE Application Programming -Robert Burdick (Wiley)

COM / DCOM / COM+ / ATL

Essential COM - Don Box
Professional COM Applications with ATL - Sing Li and Panos Economopoulos
Creating Lightweight Components with ATL - Jonathan Bates
Inside ALT - George Shepherd and Brad King
Understanding DCOM - William Rubin and Marshall Brain
Programming Distributed Applications with COM and Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 - Ted Pattison
Inside OLE, 2nd Edition - Kraig Brockschmidt