Some time back I had written about a website from Microsoft targeted towards IT Developers {You Shape} IT was started by Microsoft as a one-stop resource for IT developers, catering to designing, development & management. Over the period the guys behind the initiative have been collating a lot of articles. For some reason, they thought that it would be a great idea to put some of these articles in the form of an ebook & make it as a free download. And it’s a pretty good idea! The ebook has 16 articles (and some comic strips) under the Creative Commons license. Table of contents are:
- Working with Brownfield Code
- Beyond C# and VB
- Remaining Valuable to Employers
- All I Wanted Was My Data
- Efficiency Upgrade
- Getting Started with Continuous Integration
- On Strike at the Software Factory
- C# Features You Should Be Using
- Accelerate Your Coding with Code Snippets
- Is Silverlight 2 Ready for Business Applications?
- Innovate with Silverlight 2
- Real World WPF: Rich UI + HD
- Hidden Talents
- Creating Useful Installers with Custom Actions
- Banking with XML
- Sending Email
The articles are written by Microsoft MVPs & Regional Directors.
(5.1MB PDF)