Free eBook: DevShaped

September 6th, 2009

This is old news to some but new to many. Last winter, a number of Microsoft MVP’s and Regional Directors published a series of articles as part of a promotional program on MSDN called {You Shape} IT MSDN. Those articles have been combined and published as part of a book that you can now download for free called DevShaped.

This is a great collection of insights and essays from some of the stalwarts of the .NET developer community.

Working with Brownfield Code by Donald Belcham (Microsoft MVP)
Beyond C# and VB by Ted Neward (Microsoft MVP)
Remaining Valuable to Employers featuring Barry Gervin, Billy Hollis, Bruce Johnson, Scott Howlett, Adam Cogan, and Jonathan Zuck
All I Wanted Was My Data by Barry Gervin (Microsoft Regional Director and MVP)
Efficiency Upgrade by Derek Hatchard (Microsoft Regional Director and MVP)
Getting Started with Continuous Integration by Sondre Bjellås (Microsoft Regional Director and MVP)
On Strike at the Software Factory by Daniel Crenna (Microsoft MVP)
C# Features You Should Be Using by Ted Neward (Microsoft MVP)
Accelerate Your Coding with Code Snippets by Brian Noyes (Microsoft Regional Director and MVP)
Is Silverlight 2 Ready for Business Applications? by Jonas Follesø (Microsoft Regional Director and MVP)
Innovate with Silverlight 2 by Daniel Crenna (Microsoft MVP)
Real World WPF: Rich UI + HD by Gill Cleeren (Microsoft Regional Director and MVP)
Hidden Talents by Peter Jones
Creating Useful Installers with Custom Actions by Christian Jacob
Banking with XML by Peter Jones
Sending Email by Derek Hatchard (Microsoft Regional Director and MVP)

 

You can download the PDF eBook at http://devshaped.com/files/developersdevelopers.pdf. For those of you who like to read offline, you can purchase a full-color version or black-and-white version from Lulu.

  • Patrick Barranis

    That’s fantastic. Though, not to sound like I’ve been drinking the Kool-Aid a bit too much – where’s the XPS version? I mean, are the folks in Redmond conceding defeat that quickly? ;)

  • http://www.davebost.com Dave

    Great question, Patrick. Although OpenXPS (formally XPS) is an ECMA-based standard, its not been utilized nearly enough. At least visibly. OpenXPS is being utilized in many areas throughout the world in various capacities. However, there are other formats that are still ubiquitous across the planet. It will take time for the OpenXPS to gain some ground as an open standard. That still doesn’t explain why we, at Microsoft, aren’t providing documents in the OpenXPS format. That’s certainly an issue I will raise internally.