This week, there's a Manning Publishing promotion brought to you by my friends at PostSharp! This week of deals will bring you 50% off of a whole bunch of great .NET and/or AOP related books, including mine. You'll also get free excerpts from each book, so you can try before you buy.

Today, you can get my book, AOP in .NET, for 50% off, using code dotd0819au.

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So, if you are a .NET developer, a web developer, or just trying to learn some more skills, this is the week for you!

As far as AOP goes, there's not a great selection of books out there. I've only found 3 that might be worth reading (I haven't read any of them yet):

• AspectJ Cookbook by Russ Miles, published by O'Reilly in December 2004. From the reviews, this seems to be a "how" book, and very specific to AspectJ.
• AspectJ in Action by Ramnivas Laddad, published by Manning in July 2003, second edition in October 2009. This may be the most popular book on AOP, even though it's focused on AspectJ.
• Using Aspect-Oriented Programming for Trustworthy Software Development by Vladomir O. Safonov, published by Wiley in May 2008. I only discovered this one recently. The author of this book is also the creator of Aspect.NET, but apparently it mentions other AOP tools as well. The price tag is a little steep, and since it was written by a professor, I'm guessing it will be very academic and dry.

That's pretty much it. Two books for Java developers from the mid 2000s, and one book for .NET developers from 2008. Am I leaving anything out? I know other books touch on AOP (like Clean Code by Robert C. Martin, which I highly recommend), but not many that really dive deeply into it.

It's been a pretty light week as far as interesting new links popping up. But here are three interesting items to check out. Have a good weekend!

• The English in this white paper is a little rough, but I think they are using AspectJ to help find race conditions in multi-threaded programming. [PDF]
• This is an older post, but still relevant: Myths and realities about AOP
• Another AOP tool for .NET, called SNAP (Simple .Net Aspect-oriented Programming), and here's the Github repo for SNAP - it looks to be a tool that sits on top of Castle DynamicProxy and integrates with your favorite IoC container. 
• A white paper from Germany on analyzing models to identify cross-cutting concerns, to best apply AOP when designing an application [PDF]