Large collection of Free Microsoft eBooks

[JammoD87]

Good Find! Certainly some useful ones on there!! :)

[bbirajdar]

I think something went wrong with the link or the site.. The page does not open and redirects to http://blogs.msdn.com/error.htm?aspxerrorpath=/themes/blogs/generic/post.aspx[^] I get a error as : Sorry, there was a problem with your last request! Either the site is offline or an unhandled error occurred. We apologize and have logged the error. Please try your request again or if you know who your site administrator is let them know too.

[Jan Steyn]

Thank you!

[Ravi Bhavnani]

Thanks! /ravi

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[Carlos1907]

Try again, it worked right now!

[Tomz_KV]

Thanks for sharing.

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[User 8713969]

Great!!!!!!

[Nikunj_Bhatt]

It is a good news but not much big. These ebooks are not for novice programmers. So if anybody wants to start learning, should find something else. After reading the news 4-5 days ago, I immediately downloaded "Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS and JavaScript". There are lots of text and graphics but not enough code. And I am sure, this will be true in case of other ebooks too. These ebooks are only for those who already know much about their related programming/concept, in-fact. I have seen/analyzed many documentation of well-known products of big companies. They are believing that only very good and professional programmers/users will use their technologies; and thus they make documentation accordingly. Look at Firefox.com; can you find "Web browser" or anything else that clearly specifies what the thing Firefox is? Neither at its homepage nor at its About page even. This is true for most of documentation of technologies of Google, Microsoft, Firefox/Mozilla, Paypal, Java, jQuery and many other. At starting of their documentation, they mostly look like theory-only book and then afterwords they look like reference books. They aren't covering straight forward examples. :(

[RodolfoServin]

Hey I recive this message trying to access. Sorry, there was a problem with your last request! Either the site is offline or an unhandled error occurred. We apologize and have logged the error. Please try your request again or if you know who your site administrator is let them know too. http://blogs.msdn.com/error.htm?aspxerrorpath=/themes/blogs/generic/post.aspx

[Meshack Musundi]

Hi, I've just clicked on the link and it works fine. The page loads as expected and I'm not getting any error message.

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[Meshack Musundi]

nikunjbhatt84 wrote:

These ebooks are not for novice programmers. So if anybody wants to start learning, should find something else.

I guess it means one has to pay for novice material from Microsoft Press. :( Charles Petzold does indicate in the introductory section of Programming Windows Phone 7 that;

I assume that you know the basic principles of .NET programming and you have a working familiarity with the C# programming language.

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[RafagaX]

Amazing, thanks a lot! :thumbsup:

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[SeattleC]

To save y'all the trouble of looking it's mostly incredibly boring manuals for microsoft's more obscure products; the kind of stuff that comes on the install disk. Sigh.

[User 8592781]

where are these videos ?

[dracopql]

Thanks for sharing! :thumbsup:

[Nikunj_Bhatt]

For the book you have mentioned "Programming Windows Phone 7", if a novice programmer has basic or medium knowledge of C#.NET still s/he wouldn't be able to start learning something new BASED ON C#.NET KNOWLEDGE from that book! And, well, I don't think Microsoft press has good writers. APress and Wrox have; and sometimes even Dummies ("x programming for Dummies") has good books than Microsoft press!

[Gonzalo Brusella]

Thanks You!

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[bobc4012]

I just tried it to and got the same error.

[bobc4012]

Then there is something going on as some of us get that error message. It may be some setting, or having to log in someplace or whatever. I tred it again and still get the same error message the others received.

[bbirajdar]

I don't understand why some people take pleasure in downvoting. The link did not work for me and also for few more people in this thread..May be it is sometimes down. But that does not mean the reply should be downvoted..