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Ajax	W3Schools Tutorial on Ajax
ASP	MSDN ASP Reference OverView Tutorial Tutorial and QuickRef Guide Quick Reference Guide Reference Material An HTML and ASP Context Editor Messaging Distribution and Scalability Beginners Guide to ADO in ASP Disconnected Recordsets W3Schools Tutorials
ASP.NET	W3Schools Tutorials MSDN ASP.NET Reference ASP.NET Syntax (Must have VS.NET installed) ASP.NET Tutorial from Microsoft WebServices (an article)
Crystal Reports	Crystal Reports for .NET
VBScript	VBScript and Jscript Quick Reference Guide W3Schools Tutorials
VB	MSDN VB Reference Creating Active-X Server Components DebuggingActive-X Server Components
JavaScript	Javascript Reference Tutorials and examples Code Library Data Validation W3Schools Tutorials
Java	General information source from Sun Java APIs (classes and packages) Java language specification Java TextBook Java Tutorial Java Language (basic) ** Java, Corba, Beans
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Visual InterDev	MSDN Visual InterDev Reference
XML	Overview and Basic Tutorial The XML Industry Portal W3 Consortium Paper on XHTML Tutorial Lecture XSL Tutorial XSQL XML Reference Manual W3Schools Tutorials
DHTML	Dynamic HTML
UML (Unified Modeling Language)	Quick Reference to Diagrams Tutorials Dictionary of UML terms
SQL and Database Management	SQL Quick Reference SQL Language SQL Language Tutorial Quick Reference Guide Transact-SQL and Normalization W3Schools Tutorials
Oracle Tools	Table of Contents and Index List of Oracle 8i Server and Language Documents Term Index SQLPlus SQLPlus Editor Quick Reference Full Reference PL/SQL Language PL/SQL Reference Designer (Design) Designer Tutorial Developer (Implementation) Developer Tutorial Discoverer (Data Warehousing) Discoverer Tutorial

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VB, ASP and .NET Technologies

1. ASP 2.0 Programmer’s Reference, by Alex Federov, et al, WROX Press, 1998. ISBN:1-861002-45-9 (Inexpensive)

2. ASP 3.0 Programmer’s Reference, by Richard Anderson, et al, WROX Press, 2000. ISBN:1-861003-23-4

3. Beginning Visual Basic 6, by Peter Wright, WROX Press, 1998. ISBN:1-861001-05-3

4. Visual Basic Programmer’s Guide to Web Development, by William Martiner, Wiley Computer Publishing, , 1997. ISBN: 0-471-19382-8.

5. Oracle Programming with Visual Basic, by Nick Snowdon, SYBEX, 1999, ISBN: 0-7821-2322-8 (This book is mostly database oriented. It is not a substitute for a book like Reference 2)

6. Hitchhiker’s Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server, by William Vaughn, mIcrosoft Press, 1997, ISBN: 1-57231-567-9. (Same type of book as Reference 4 but for SQL Server instead of Oracle)

7. Using Visual InterDev 6, by Steve Bannick and Michael Morrison, Published by Que, 1998. ISBN: 0-7897-1549-X.

8. Professional Visual Basic 5.0 Business Objects, by Rockford Lhotka, XROX Press, 1997, ISBN: 1-861000-43-X.

9. XML Design and Implementation, by Paul Spencer, WROX Press, 1999, ISBN: 1-861002-28-9.

10. Beginning ASP Databases, by John Kauffman, WROX Press, 1999, ISBN: 1-861002-72-6

11. Distributed COM Application Development Using Visual Basic 6.0 and MTS, by Jim Maloney, Prentice Hall, 1999. ISBN: 0130213438.

12. Microsoft Commerce Solutions Web Technology, by Micro Modeling Associates, Published by Microsoft Press, 1999. ISBN: 0-7356-0579-3.

13. Introducing .NET, by James Conrad, et al, WROX Press, 2000. ISBN:1-861004-98-3

14. Beginning ASP .NET 1.0 with Visual Basic.NET, by Chris Goode, et al, WROX Press, 2002. ISBN:1-861007-33-7

15. Beginning Visual Basic.NET, by Matthew Reynolds, et al, WROX Press, 2001. ISBN:1-861004-96-6

Java Technologies

1. Java- How to Program, 3^rd Edition, by Deitel and Deitel, Prentice Hall, all, Hall, 1999999 1999. ISBN: 0-13-012507-5

2. JavaServer Pages, by Hans Bergsten, O'Reilly, 2001. ISBN: 1-56592-746-X

3. Java- How to Program, 4th Edition, by Deitel and Deitel, Prentice Hall, all, Hall, 1999999 2002.

4. Advanced Java 2 Platform – How to Program, by Deitel, Deitel and Santry, Prentice Hall, all, Hall, 1999999 2002. ISBN: 0-13-089560-1

5. Web Development with JavaServer Pages, by Fields and Kolb, Manning Publishing Co., 2000. ISBN: 1-884777-99-6.

6. Beginning JSP Web Development, by Galbraith, et al, WROX Press, 2001.
ISBN:1-861002-09-2

7. Mastering Enterprise Java Beans and the Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition, by Romans, Wiley, 1999. ISBN: 0-471-33229-1.

8. Java Programmer's Reference, by Grant Palmer, WROX Press, 2000.
ISBN: 1-861004-22-2.

9. Beginning JSP Web Development, by Jayson Faulkner, et al, WROX Press, 2001. ISBN: 1-861002-09-2.

10. Java Servlets (Second Edition), by Karl Moss, McGraw Hill, 1999. ISBN: 0-07-135187-6.

Unified Modeling Language

1. UML Distilled – Applying the Standard Object Modeling Language, by Fowler, Addison-Wesley, 1997. ISBN:0-201-32563-2.

2. The Unified Modeling Language User Guide, by Booch, Rumbaugh and Jacobson, Addison-Wesley, 1999. ISBN: 0-201-57168-4.

3. The Unified Software Development Process, by Booch, Rumbaugh and Jacobson, Addison-Wesley, 1999. ISBN: 0-201-57169-2.