A List Of Microsoft Patterns And Practices Documents

Patterns & Practices

I have put together an interesting list of all Patterns and Practices books available on the internet that i could find. Most of the have some relation to development. If you know some that are missing, please let me know.

Architecture

Application Architecture for .NET: Designing Applications and Services
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Application Architecture Guide 2.0
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Enterprise Solution Patterns Using Microsoft .NET
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Development

.NET Data Access Architecture Guide
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Exception Management in .NET
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Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability
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Security

Improving Web Service Security Guide
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Building Secure ASP.NET Applications
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Web Service Security
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Security Engineering Explained
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Improving Web Application Security: Threats and Countermeasures
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Building Secure ASP.NET Applications: Authentication, Authorization, and Secure Communication
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Other

Building Interoperable Web Services
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Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server
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Upgrading Visual Basic 6.0 Applications to Visual Basic .NET and Visual Basic 2005
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