Programming Magazines... 2

[sqlsamurai]

I like to throw this question out there every once in a while...

What technical magazines do you subscribe to? Where do you pick up tips and tricks? Podcasts? RSS Feeds?

I've recently made the jump to Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005.

Here are two books that have provided me with a lot of little nuggets of information on Visual Studio 2005.

Visual Basic 2005 : A Developer's Notebook
Best Kept Secrets in .NET

I'm also considering a subscription to this one as well, just to keep fresh information coming in.

Visual Studio® Developer

Thanks for your time... I hope my links are helpful.

 

[ThatRickGuy]

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but that's about it...

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[sqlsamurai]

Thanks Rick. I guess this is not a popular question. Nobody seems to have an opinion. I was just hoping for better dialog in this thread... oh well.

 

[earthandfire]

As far as books are concerned:
[tt]
Programming Microsoft Visual Basic 2005: The Language
by Francesco Balena
published by Microsoft Press
ISBN (2 of them for some reason)
13: 978-0-7356-2183-1 and
10: 0-7356-2183-7

Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic 2005
by Evangelos Petroutsos
published by SYBEX
ISBN (just the one )
0-7821-4349-0
[/tt]

Magazines:

MSDN Magazine
Visual Systems Journal

are two that I find very good.

I used to subscribe to some of the Pinnacle magazines, but for the content the price was outrageous (at least in the UK - I don't know how their prices compare elsewhere, but from memory they were about £100 per year for around 16 pages per month - more than twice the price and a fraction of the content of the two I mentioned above).


Hope this helps.