A couple of weeks ago I decided to buy these 2 books at Amazon. They arrived today by mail though the initial mail from Amazon stated that the expected date of arrival would probably be December 4th. Luckily for me they came sooner.

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I didn't had much time to read in them and since it's the first time that I bought a book from Manning or Sitepoint I'll get to get used to their style I guess. Now I have something new to read on the train after finishing the 5th book in the increasingly inaccurately named trilogy of five of The Hitch Hiker's guide to galaxy. Talking about the train: I spend nowadays more than 3 hours per day for getting to my work and back. I hope my next project's nearer and has something to do with ASP.NET 3.5, AJAX, Silverlight, ...

Grz, Kris.

Yep, a free eBook to download. I have yet to read it myself but already took a quick glance at it. You can download it here.

Also it's been a while since I blogged or been active on the ASP.NET forums. The main reason for this is that I got another project which requires me to travel about 3.5 hours a day minimum. It's an interesting project that uses SCRUM methodology but this means that there are also very tight deadlines to reckon with (and weekend work) and this weighs on my availability to do some digging and providing valuable content to my blog.

If someone knows a decent tutorial about NHibernate and the Validation Application Block that ships with Enterprise Library please leave a comment.

Grz, Kris.

I didn't had much time to play around with PowerShell myself but I noticed yesterday evening that Gill posted about a free eBook on the topic.

It's a small download but is a nice to have if the technology interests you.

Grz, Kris.

You can listen to the podcast from Hanselminutes.com. Podcast 37 is an interview with Scott Guthrie.

Also Dino Esposito was busy writing about/teaching ASP.NET AJAX. This resulted in an upcoming book called Introducing ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions. Best of all, you can download a free chapter of it here.

The TOC of the upcoming book:

I can only hope that the final book will cover the updated Microsoft AJAX bits since last week the Beta 1 was released and I already saw on the ASP.NET forums, where I'm a moderator and top 10 poster, that a lot of threads are added with questions/problems about the new bits as there seems to be a lot of changes since the CTP releases.

Grz, Kris.

While I was reading through all the subscribed blog feeds that I keep track of (indeed too much to read, too little time available) I found out that Charles provides a link to a chapter about 3D in XAML that didn't make it in the final book. You can download it here as a word document: Chapter 32. Entering the Third Dimension.

Grz, Kris.

Today, in the afternoon, I went to the first part, the next one's tomorrow, about Visual Team System 2005 an event by VISUG of which I'm a member. Thanks to the people from Microsoft we also got a new book to read for free: Wrox' Professional Visual Studio 2005 Team System.

The presentation is given by Steven Wilsens, whom is a Team System MVP and will be joining Microsoft in a while.

I'm looking forward to the next part of the event.

Grz, Kris.

Hi,

I found out, via Jan Tielens' blog, whom found out via Eli Robillard's blog, that you can download a 236 pages free eBook in pdf format about 7 Development Projects with the 2007 Microsoft Office System and Windows SharePoint Services 2007.

So for all you guys and girls interested: get your copy here.

Grz, Kris.

Thanks to the newly added service by Microsoft in Belgium, I was told that this service was already longer available for other countries, called MSDN Connection one can purchase every month a book of the month at a 40% discount. Today I bought those of May and June:

May:

CLR via C# Second Edition

June:

Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Applications: Advanced Topics

The weather's finally getting better in Belgium so I can relax and read some interesting stuff the next couple of weeks.

Grz, Kris.