---
title: "Another Free Book"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/7/another-free-book.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/7/another-free-book.html"
published: "2003-05-07T17:33:00"
updated: "2003-05-07T17:33:00"
tags: [".Net Quotations", "Free book chapters"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Microsoft offers a free book here : Application Architecture for .NET: Designing Applications and Services . [Thanks to Samer Ibrahim for the link] Unfortunately, Only US addresses are allowed, so me being in Israel is…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Another Free Book

By Roy Osherove May 7, 2003 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations), [Free book chapters](https://osherove.com/blog/category/free-book-chapters)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 7, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

Microsoft offers a free book [here](http://www.replycard.com/patternsbook/): **Application Architecture for .NET:
Designing Applications and Services .**

\[Thanks to [Samer Ibrahim](http://dotnetweblogs.com/sibrahim/posts/6635.aspx) for the link\]

Unfortunately,  Only US addresses are allowed, so me being in Israel is kind of a problem :(.

**Rant:**

Why don't MSFT allow sending books outside the US as well? I don't mind paying for the extra shipment costs. It's just not fair.

Update:

I got the Book in PDF format from [Jan](http://dotnetweblogs.com/Jan) . However , If you find an extra print copy lying around then I'd be happy to pay the shipment costs if you sent it over to Israel for me. Contact me here in that case. Thanks in advance :)

## More in .Net Quotations

[All posts in .Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations)

- May 8, 2003

    ### [Dan Appleman Has A New EBook (With A Warning)](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/8/dan-appleman-has-a-new-ebook-with-a-warning.html)

- May 8, 2003

    ### [3D Cynicism](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/8/3d-cynicism.html)

- May 5, 2003

    ### [More On UIP Blue Bricks](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/5/more-on-uip-blue-bricks.html)

- May 1, 2003

    ### [Shared Memory Wrapper](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/1/shared-memory-wrapper.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
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Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/