---
title: "Amazoner 1.0.1 - Larger Images for Books and a dedicated website"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/10/30/amazoner-101-larger-images-for-books-and-a-dedicated-website.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/10/30/amazoner-101-larger-images-for-books-and-a-dedicated-website.html"
published: "2005-10-30T02:20:00"
updated: "2005-10-30T02:20:00"
tags: [".Net 2.0", "Cool Tools"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "A new version of Amazoner is out. Not many changes, but the main thing is that the book images are now bigger, oh and it's compiled using Visual Studio 2005 RTM out 2 days ago (relies on .NET 2.0 final). I Created a…"
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/"
---

# Amazoner 1.0.1 - Larger Images for Books and a dedicated website

By Roy Osherove October 30, 2005 In [.Net 2.0](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-2-0), [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools)

**Historical article** · Originally published October 30, 2005; technical details may be outdated.

A new version of Amazoner is out. Not many changes, but the main thing is that the book images are now bigger, oh and it's compiled using Visual Studio 2005 RTM out 2 days ago (relies on .NET 2.0 final).

I Created a dedicated Site for this tool, from now on located here:

[/](https://osherove.com/)

**The latest version is 1.0.1** .
[Download Program](http://files.osherove.com/amazoner/amazoner101.zip) (148k)
[Download Source](http://files.osherove.com/amazoner/amazoner101Src.zip) (151k)
_Created using MS **Visual Studio .NET 2005 RTM** (.NET 2.0)_

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Change List
Version 1.0.1
\------------
added:        search button disabled while searching
fixed:          Error dialog appears if any problem arises during query instead of crashing
added:        if not connected, clicking the search button will provide an informational dialog telling you so
changed:    Medium sized images are now being used for books instead of the original small size

                  (due to public requests)

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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.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
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- [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.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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