Contents tagged with Books
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Move e-books from Adobe Digital Editions to Kindle with Calibre
Just so you know – if you bought books that are not available from Amazon (like Swedish books) and want to read them on your Kindle – there is a plugin for Calibre that will help you do that. Just saying. http://bit.ly/1huf42M
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[Books] SQL Server 2005 Service Broker
We're using the SQL Server 2005 Service Broker functionality to replicate data and send messages between databases, and we got a tip from a Microsoftie to get hold of this book.
The book is written by Roger Wolter, Program Manager on the Service Broker team and it is straight forward, full of samples starting with a really, really simple service broker sample and builds up throughout the book. It covers most things you need to know about the topic, poison messages, multiple servers, certificates etc. and everything within some 220 pages.
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[Books] Essential ASP.NET 2.0 - off to the presses!
My production editor at Addison Wesley just informed me that Essential ASP.NET 2.0 just went to press last week! I should have copies in my hand before Halloween, just in time to bring with me to TechEd Developers in Barcelona (where they should also be available at the conference bookstore, assuming everything is shipped successfully). If you won't be in Barcelona, you can also pre-order it from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or Bookpool.com of course ;)
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[Books] Professional ASP.NET 2.0? Naaaah...
Every now and then I like to read literature related to coding, design, refactoring and various development methodologies, especially when I know there's something new out there that I haven't been able to work with or look at yet.
This time I thought I'll get myself a really fat and heavy book on ASP.NET 2.0 which digs into the changes between 1.1 and 2.0 and some tips on how to best use the goodies like new controls, membership, web parts and so on. Without doing too much investigation, I used the Internet book-shop I usually use and did a search on "ASP.NET 2.0". I got a number of hits and selected "Professional ASP.NET 2.0" from Wrox. The book is supposed to help "experienced developers make the transition to ASP.NET 2.0".
I should have read some reviews I guess... it was kind of a bad buy it seems. 1258 pages (!) and the book doesn't even bring up how to hide menu items based on a web.sitemap file by editing the sitemap provider section in web.config. Something this great video on the MS ASP.NET Developer Center shows. One reason the book is so thick is probably because each code sample is in both VB.NET and C# and you also get page after page with class properties. I dunno, but Wrox got a separate ASP.NET 2.0 book on security, roles and stuff, maybe they brought it up there. I may have had bad luck with the sitemap provider thing I was looking for, but there were other things I needed that were missing as well. I can't say I've looked at ALL thousand or more pages, but...
EDIT: Gah... Page 86 in the book describes how you can use precompile.axd to precompile the website. Well, that function was removed after beta 1 as far as I know. Not very impressive...
The book do have some samples around client-side callbacks which were good, but overall I wouldn't recommend it.
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[Books][.NET 2.0] Recommended .NET 2.0 books?
I need your help. I'm going to the PDC and I need to read up on various .NET 2.0 stuff before going there, to get most out of it. ASP.NET and Web Services/Interop is my main focus, so if someone out there knows of a really good book to read, please comment. I got a few books that I've read already, like the "A First Look at ASP.NET v2.0" by Homer/Sussman/Howard, but I'm sure there are more updated ones.
Thanks!
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[Books] New Features and Tools in ASP.NET 2.0
This has been out there on the Net for a while, but someone may have missed it. Some sample chapters from the 2nd edition of the book about new features in ASP.NET 2.0 - The Beta Version.
I read the first edition of that book, and I can recommend it. It's not very detailed, but you get a good feeling for what's coming.
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[Books] Good book: Test-Driven Development in Microsoft.NET
I've just started to read the book "Test-Driven Development in Microsoft.NET" and I must say it's darn good and a must read if you're a developer or architect. I'm a fan of Martin Fowler and was happily surprised to find lots of good stuff around refactoring in the same book!
If you haven't got it, go get it already :)
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[Books] Test-Driven Development in Microsoft .NET?
I was thinking of buying the book "Test-Driven Development in Microsoft .NET", but is it a good idea when you look at what's coming in VS.NET 2005? I guess the way we do and run (unit) testing will change a bit with the great tools shipped with VS.NET 2005...
Maybe the book is good reading anyway?
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[Books] The practice test for the web app MCAD exams really sucks
A year or so ago I got the MCAD/MCSD self-paced training kits from MS Press to do the test exams. I've been through 12-13 of the questions now and I've seen an embarrassing number of errors so far. Code snippets with obvious errors that would never compile etc. etc. Right now I'm looking at a question about settings in web.config with 4 answers, and all of them are wrong! Amazing...
This practice test cannot have gone through any review whatsoever by someone who really knows ASP.NET :(
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[Books] Just got "A First Look at ASP.NET v. 2.0"
Just got the book I'm going to read during the x-mas holidays. Now, if only the darn DVD with Longhorn and Whidbey I ordered from Microsoft could show up sometime! I got the book last night, so I have only read the first chapter yet. But the book looks promising and a good introduction to the new stuff in Whidbey for us poor bastards that didn't make it to the PDC.
The book has a comfortable size, almost 500 pages but still doesn't feel bulky, so it's no problem to bring it with you. Contains a lot of screenshots, code snippets and tables with properties and seems to cover some of the more cooler new parts of ASP.NET 2.0.