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Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build ****
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi and William Bartholomew
As software complexity increases, proper build practices become ever more important. This essential reference—fully updated for Visual Studio 2010—drills inside MSBuild and shows you how to maximize your control over the build and deployment process....

Parallel Programming With Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Step by Step ***
Donis Marshall
The roadmap for developers wanting to maximize their applications for multi-core architecture using Visual Studio 2010.

Programming Entity Framework: Code First *****
Julia Lerman and Rowan Miller
Review"It's a great cover-to-cover read, and I can easily see topics I'll bookmark and come back to when I hit certain scenarios. If you're planning on using EF Code First, make getting this book a priority." - John Papa, Visual Studio MagazineAbout ...

Silverlight 4 in Action
Pete Brown
Silverlight 3 in Action is a fast-paced, comprehensive tutorial that guides the reader from creating "Hello World" to coding production-quality, data-driven rich internet applications with graphics, audio, and video content. Written for a developer w...