Having just posted something about Fritz Onion's ASP.NET book I thought I'd blog about what books I have under my desk as a developer. I'm a major book fiend so have far too many around the house and typically try to read far too many at a time causing me often to have to back and start again.

So, I have a lot of developer books kicking around but if I had to go out tomorrow and re-stock my selection (say the PC blew up and took the books with it) and I wasn't thinking of going and revisiting COM or C++ or something then I'd buy these.

Core .NET development;

Shared Source CLI Essentials. David Stutz et al.

Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming. Jeffrey Richter

ADO.NET. David Sceppa

Essential ASP.NET. Fritz Onion

Windows Forms Programming. Chris Sells

Real World XML Web Services. Yasser Shohoud

Debugging .NET and Windows Applications. John Robbins

Essential XML. Don Box, Aaron Skonnard, John Lam. Essential XML Quick Reference. Aaron Skonnard, Martin Gudgin.

Programming Windows Security Keith Brown

Writing Secure Code Michael Howard

and around Windows itself I'd want;

Inside Windows 2000. David Solomon, Mark Russinovich

And for working with SQL  Server I'd go and buy;

Inside SQL Server 2000. Kalen Delaney

Advanced Transact-SQL for SQL Server 2000 Itzik Ben-Gan, Tom Moreau

The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL Ken Henderson

Microsoft SQL Server Performance Optimization and Tuning Handbook Ken England

and a final perf book which I always found really useful;

Windows 2000 Performance Guide Mark Friedman, Odysseas Pentakalos