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18.9 For More Information

If you’re interested in frameworks in general, you absolutely must have this book on your shelf:

• Framework Design Guidelines, by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams (Addison-Wesley)

There are also a number of good books covering the frameworks discussed in this chapter. If you want to learn more about DotNetNuke, you can’t do much better than this one:

• Professional DotNetNuke 4: Open Source Web Application Framework for ASP.NET 2.0, by Shaun Walker, Joe Brinkman, Bruce Hopkins, and Scott McCulloch (Wrox)

One of the best books on Mono is a work from O’Reilly:

• Mono (Developer’s Notebook), by Edd Dumbill and Niel M. Bornstein

O’Reilly also has a great book on the Shared Source CLI (Rotor):

• Shared Source CLI Essentials, by Davis Stutz, Ted Neward, and Geoff Shilling

For more information on design patterns, pick up the Gang of Four book:

• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides (Addison-Wesley)

Some good Framework-related blogs are:

• Monologue (http://www.go-mono.com/monologue/)—an aggregation of numerous Mono project contributors’ blogs.

• Enterprise Library Blogs (http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices/comm/entlibblogs/default.aspx)—an aggregation of Brian Button, Tom Hollander, and Edward Jezierski’s blogs. All three are (or were) members of the team at Microsoft responsible for Enterprise Library.

• “Zen and the art of Castle maintenance” (http://hammett.castleproject.org)—a blog by Hamilton ...