I have found this material to be quite good.
I always watch out for people who can talk and can not deliver. Consultants without implementation experience is useless.
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I have to design database schema quite a number of time and I simply consider designing from scratch a waste of time.
I have the two particular reference very use ful.
1.o The Database Source book Vol-1- Len Silverston- ISBN 0-471-35348-5
2.0 The Database source Book Vol 2- Len Silverston- ISBN 0-471-38023-7
These books are very good , however each CDROM has asking price of 500 dollars. I do not recommend purchasing the CDROM Auth code.
The material in the Book is very much time saver.
There are some books that I keep near My desk while working
1.0 Building Applications and Components with VB.net, Ted Pattison, dr. Joe Hummel-ISBN- 0-201-73495-8
2.0 Windows Forms Programming in VB.net , Chris sells, Justin Gethland- ISBN- 0-321-12519-3
3.0 VB.net and C#.net Cookbooks from Oreily's.
These core set of books are very helpful as I waste a lot of time wandering through MSDN documentation.
I also found that MSDN documentation becomes slightly useful when I have dynamic help turned on in VS 2005 and 2008.
I have started my journey involving MSF-3.0 and will post all the discoveries and pitfalls on the way. I will be using Enterprise Architect-7.0 and Vs 2005 for the Journey.
Here is the Url from Microsoft.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/solutionaccelerators/msf/default.mspx
