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Free book chapters
2007
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The Art Of Unit Testing - Available to Purchase Online Now
I'm happy to announce that you can now purchase my book The Art Of Unit Testing through the Manning Early Access Program. Currently, the first five chapters are available, but when you purchase the MEAP version you get…
2006
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The Art Of Unit Testing - Download Chapter 1
I'm happy to announce that draft of chapter 1 from my upcoming book " The Art of Unit Testing " is available for download immediately - click here for the PDF . the book will also be available to download from Manning's…
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Free E-Book: Developing Time-Oriented Database Applications in SQL
One of the books I mention in my Amazon Wish List is Developing Time-Oriented Database Applications in SQL (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) . A few days ago I got an email from Steven Gravitz telling…
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Free Sharepoint 2007 Book Download
If you're into that kind of thing, Eli says there's a free book download about SharePoint 2007. Download the PDF directly from here . Eli says: "Future or current SharePoint developers should at least flip through the…
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10 Hacker tricks to exploit SQL Server Systems + free chapter on reverse engineering
Reminder to self: Check this out: 10 Hacker tricks to exploit SQL Server Systems there's also a link to this sample chapter from the excellent book Exploiting Software: How to Break Code by Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw,…
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HanselMinutes on CI tools, and a free EBook on Agile Skills
The new Hanselminutes is all about Continuous Integration tools. Should be worth a listen! Also, via David Hayden , I stumbled upon this freely downloadable EBook (though you can also buy it at Amazon in Print) called…
2005
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[Free eBook]FIT for Developing Software: Framework for Integrated Tests
The FIT for Developing Software: Framework for Integrated Tests (2.4 MB) free eBook by Rick Mugridge and Ward Cunningham is available for download. "This book is about using Fit tables for two major, interconnected…
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[Free Book]Coding Slave
" This has been a month of extraordinary learning and changing awareness for me. Today I am up for trying out new ideas that previously I would have dismissed out of hand. Thus, I am going to follow Kelly's thinking and…
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[Free book] .Net in samples
.NET in Samples presents many technologies on .NET platform like security, cryptography, WMI, networking, IO and others. This is still in draft version and final one will be release on the end of 2004 focusing on…
2004
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Head-First books from Oreilly (and free sample chapters)
Sure, the title sounds kinda nasty, but it's not. OK. I gotta admit, the new oreilly "Head-First" book series looks awesome. Thanks to Oleg for pointing to it. And yeah, the sample chapters do look amazingly as if Rory…
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Sample chapter from "The Visual Basic .NET Programming Language" available
For those of you who've been considering buying my book but just want to make sure that it's worth whatever they're charging for it these days, Addison-Wesley (my publishers) has provided a sample chapter online in PDF…
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VS.Net Database Projects - learn to use them (Sample chapter included)
I just got acquainted with the Database Project in VS.Net. Very cool. This sample chapter gives a very nice intro on the Hows and Whys of it(PDF). I'll be adding this to my current project shortly. Some of the main…
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Book of the month
My book of the month: Writing Secure Code, Second Edition After reading almost half of it I can safely say this book is a must for every developer. Getting into that security "state of mind", or even just awareness , is…
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Three free recipes from "ADO.NET Cookbook"
[ .NetWire :] " O'Reilly's recently released ADO.NET Cookbook contains over 150 solutions and best practices for everyday dilemmas. This week, we're excerpting three recipes from the book that show how to asynchronously…
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Code Complete 2. Good, but not a silver bullet
Oh goodie!, Code Complete 2 is on the horizon(via Shawn ). While many consider this book to be the "bible of coding", I can't help but feel overwhelmed by such a response. I read it, it is definitely good and has great…
2003
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[online book] A .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security
Peter Provost sends word of a new book that's being written: A .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security , by Keith Brown The great thing is the author is making what he's written available to read. Not only that, you…
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More than 500 sample chapters
Srinivasa Sivakumar has listed more than 500 sample chapters (in HTML/PDF format) on his resource site , from various books related to .NET. A great resource! [ Ashutosh Nilkanth's .NET Blog ] Awsome! Some serious gold…
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Visual Studio .NET Shortcut Key Guide
Keyboard shortcuts can save hours of programming time. Appendix A of Mastering Visual Studio .NET lists the command, shortcut, and description of each in a convenient table format. [via safari.oreilly.com ] Heaven. I'm…
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Free chapter from "Essential .Net" by Don Box
Found this out through the DOTNET-CLR mailing list: You can read a free chapter from Don Box 's latest book Essential .Net, Volume 1 , over at Amazon . Looks very promising. it's chapter 3 and it's called “ Type Basics…
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The OLE syndrom
So wrote the Inside OLE guru: “.. I considered all of this utter nonsense. [†] I had no use for adoration, admiration, and obeisance. Flattery was useless, and I certainly didn’t want to shoulder the responsibility of…
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Windows Forms Programming in C# Sample Chapter
AW has been kind enough to post the preface and a sample chapter (Chapter 9: Design-Time Integration) to the official AW Windows Forms Programming in C# book page. They've also posted Mike Blaszczak's foreword. Enjoy.…
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Free WMI book chapter
SBC Adds that there's a free book chapter on WMI over at APress: .NET Framework and Windows Management Instrumentation
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Beta chapters of OReilly books
" OReilly has released beta chapters from their forthcoming books including - ASP.NET , Regular Expressions & .NET Framework ." [ S.B. Chatterjee ]
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More Free Chapters
Silly me. I never noticed that CodeProject has a whole section devoted to free book chapters online . Cool! Update: Steven points to even more free chapters on ASPAlliance . yey! SBC points to free Regex chapters ...
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Free Full Tech Books
A friend just let me know about this very cool site: [Content removed] Sorry guys, but until I'm sure this site holds legal content, I won't publish it. A big "Sorry " goes out to all the authors who are losing their…
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Yet Another Book Chapter
Since I'm currently in the process of learning/revisiting a bunch of .Net subjects, I keep fininding free book chapters all over the place. The latest chapter I've (just) found, is called " Windows Forms Data Binding "…
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Free ADO.NET book chapter
FTPOnline.com has a link to a free chapter download from the book Murach's VB.NET Database Programming with ADO.NET download the PDF file here . About the chapter: " How to use Data Views You'll learn how to create and…
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Free Chapter From ADO.NET- Core Reference
Here's a free chapter I found from ADO.NET - Core Reference,Microsoft : Chapter 10: Submitting Updates to Your Database coolness. UPDATE: boy, this chapter rocks ! it's more advanced than I first thought. here's an…
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Another Free Book
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…