--- title: "Free book chapters (Blog category)" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/category/free-book-chapters.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/category/free-book-chapters" tags: [] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Roy Osherove: author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership. Consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership, Co-Ops and continuous delivery, plus 20 years of blog posts." 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/" --- # Free book chapters (Blog category) Roy Osherove: author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership. Consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership, Co-Ops and continuous delivery, plus 20 years of blog posts. HTML: https://osherove.com/blog/category/free-book-chapters · 29 linked entries (each is plain Markdown) · Site index: [llms.txt](https://osherove.com/llms.txt) - [The Art Of Unit Testing - Available to Purchase Online Now](https://osherove.com/blog/2007/9/26/the-art-of-unit-testing-available-to-purchase-online-now.md) (2007-09-26): 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… - [The Art Of Unit Testing - Download Chapter 1](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/10/10/the-art-of-unit-testing-download-chapter-1.md) (2006-10-10): 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… - [Free E-Book: Developing Time-Oriented Database Applications in SQL](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/8/21/free-e-book-developing-time-oriented-database-applications-i.md) (2006-08-21): 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… - [Free Sharepoint 2007 Book Download](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/6/19/free-sharepoint-2007-book-download.md) (2006-06-19): 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… - [10 Hacker tricks to exploit SQL Server Systems + free chapter on reverse engineering](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/2/16/10-hacker-tricks-to-exploit-sql-server-systems-free-chapter.md) (2006-02-16): 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,… - [HanselMinutes on CI tools, and a free EBook on Agile Skills](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/2/2/hanselminutes-on-ci-tools-and-a-free-ebook-on-agile-skills.md) (2006-02-02): 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… - [\[Free eBook\]FIT for Developing Software: Framework for Integrated Tests](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/4/8/free-ebookfit-for-developing-software-framework-for-integrat.md) (2005-04-08): 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… - [\[Free Book\]Coding Slave](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/3/19/free-bookcoding-slave.md) (2005-03-19): " 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… - [\[Free book\] .Net in samples](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/1/11/free-book-net-in-samples.md) (2005-01-11): .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… - [Head-First books from Oreilly (and free sample chapters)](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/11/27/head-first-books-from-oreilly-and-free-sample-chapters.md) (2004-11-27): 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… - [Sample chapter from "The Visual Basic .NET Programming Language" available](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/5/sample-chapter-from-quotthe-visual-basic-net-programming-lan.md) (2004-04-05): 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… - [VS.Net Database Projects - learn to use them (Sample chapter included)](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/3/31/vsnet-database-projects-learn-to-use-them-sample-chapter-inc.md) (2004-03-31): 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… - [Book of the month](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/3/5/book-of-the-month.md) (2004-03-05): 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… - [Three free recipes from "ADO.NET Cookbook"](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/16/three-free-recipes-from-quotadonet-cookbookquot.md) (2004-01-16): [ .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… - [Code Complete 2. Good, but not a silver bullet](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/14/code-complete-2-good-but-not-a-silver-bullet.md) (2004-01-14): 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… - [\[online book\] A .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/11/20/online-book-a-net-developers-guide-to-windows-security.md) (2003-11-20): 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… - [More than 500 sample chapters](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/6/more-than-500-sample-chapters.md) (2003-10-06): 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… - [Visual Studio .NET Shortcut Key Guide](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/2/visual-studio-net-shortcut-key-guide.md) (2003-10-02): 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… - [Free chapter from "Essential .Net" by Don Box](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/22/free-chapter-from-quotessential-netquot-by-don-box.md) (2003-09-22): 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… - [The OLE syndrom](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/8/the-ole-syndrom.md) (2003-09-08): 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… - [Windows Forms Programming in C# Sample Chapter](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/2/windows-forms-programming-in-c-sample-chapter.md) (2003-09-02): 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.… - [Free WMI book chapter](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/8/21/free-wmi-book-chapter.md) (2003-08-21): SBC Adds that there's a free book chapter on WMI over at APress: .NET Framework and Windows Management Instrumentation - [Beta chapters of OReilly books](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/28/beta-chapters-of-oreilly-books.md) (2003-07-28): " OReilly has released beta chapters from their forthcoming books including - ASP.NET , Regular Expressions & .NET Framework ." [ S.B. Chatterjee ] - [More Free Chapters](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/21/more-free-chapters.md) (2003-06-21): 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 ... - [Free Full Tech Books](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/18/free-full-tech-books.md) (2003-06-18): 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… - [Yet Another Book Chapter](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/13/yet-another-book-chapter.md) (2003-06-13): 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 "… - [Free ADO.NET book chapter](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/12/free-adonet-book-chapter.md) (2003-06-12): 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… - [Free Chapter From ADO.NET- Core Reference](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/9/free-chapter-from-adonet-core-reference.md) (2003-06-09): 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… - [Another Free Book](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/7/another-free-book.md) (2003-05-07): 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… --- ## 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. - [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. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). 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