Required reading for anyone coding in VB.NET

While at Tech-Ed 2008 in Orlando I picked up a copy of "Professional Refactoring in Visual Basic" by Danijel Arsenovski a Wrox Programmer to Programmer book by Wiley Publishing, Inc.  This book is absolutely the best book I have seen on doing object oriented VB.NET programming in the real world.  In my opinion it is absolutely required reading for anyone coding in VB.NET.

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