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E-Book Gallery for Microsoft Technologies

My first blog post, and what better way than to share with my readers some great ebooks which they can download for free.

Download existing and new content for ASP.NET, Office, SQL Server, Windows Azure, and other Microsoft technologies in e-book formats. Reference, guide, and step-by-step information are all available. All the e-books are free. New books will be posted as they become available.


E-Books in English

ASP.NET Deploying an ASP.NET Web Application to a Hosting Provider using Visual StudioGetting Started with ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms (Beta)Intro to ASP.NET MVC 4 with Visual Studio (Beta)
Office Configure Kerberos Authentication for SharePoint 2010 Products
SQL Server Master Data Services Capacity Guidelines Microsoft SQL Server AlwaysOn Solutions Guide for High Availability and Disaster RecoveryMicrosoft SQL Server Analysis Services Multidimensional Performance and Operations GuideQuickStart: Learn DAX Basics in 30 MinutesSQL Server 2012 Transact-SQL DML Reference
Windows Azure Windows Azure Prescriptive GuidanceWindows Azure Service Bus Reference

E-Books in English

ASP.NET

  Deploying an ASP.NET Web Application to a Hosting Provider using Visual StudioTom Dykstra Step-by-Step

This series of tutorials shows you how to make an ASP.NET web application available over the internet by deploying it to a third-party hosting provider. The deployment method used is Visual Studio one-click publish. The tutorials illustrate deployment first to IIS on the development computer for testing. They then show you how to deploy to the hosting provider as the production environment.

Applies to: ASP.NET 4.0 and earlier, Visual Studio 2010 Source: ASP.NET site

E-book publication date: May 2012 162 pagesEPUB | MOBI | PDF | Source content
     Getting Started with ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms (Beta) Erik Reitan Step-by-Step

This series of tutorials guides you through the steps required to create an ASP.NET Web Forms application using Visual Studio 11 Beta and ASP.NET 4.5 Beta.

Applies to: ASP.NET 4.5 Beta, Visual Studio 11 BetaSource: ASP.NET site

E-book publication date: May 2012 59 pagesEPUB | MOBI | PDF | Source content
     Intro to ASP.NET MVC 4 with Visual Studio (Beta) Rick Anderson and Scott HanselmanStep-by-Step

This tutorial will teach you the basics of building an ASP.NET MVC Web application using Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web, which is a free version of Microsoft Visual Studio.

Applies to: ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta, Visual Studio 11 BetaSource: ASP.NET site

E-book publication date: May 2012 115 pagesEPUB | MOBI | PDF | Source content

Office

     Configure Kerberos Authentication for SharePoint 2010 Products Tom Wisnowski Guide

This document covers the concepts of identity in SharePoint 2010 products, how Kerberos authentication plays a critical role in authentication and delegation in business intelligence scenarios, and the situations where Kerberos authentication should be leveraged or may be required in solution designs. It also covers how to configure Kerberos authentication end-to-end within your environment, including scenarios which use various service applications in SharePoint Server. Additional tools and resources are described to help you test and validate Kerberos configuration.

Applies to: SharePoint 2010Source: White paper

E-book publication date: May 2012220 pagesEPUB | MOBI | PDF | Source content

SQL Server

Master Data Services Capacity GuidelinesYair Helman Quick Guide This document provides capacity planning guidelines for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Master Data Services (MDS). Applies to: SQL Server 2012Source: TechNet Wiki E-book publication date: May 2012 6 pagesEPUB   | MOBI | PDF (coming soon) | Source content
   Microsoft SQL Server AlwaysOn Solutions Guide for High Availability and Disaster Recovery LeRoy Tuttle, Jr. Quick Guide

This white paper discusses how to reduce planned and unplanned downtime, maximize application availability, and provide data protection using SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn high availability and disaster recovery solutions.

A key goal of this paper is to establish a common context for related discussions between business stakeholders, technical decision makers, system architects, infrastructure engineers, and database administrators.

Applies to: SQL Server 2012Source: White paper

E-book publication date : May 2012 32 pagesEPUB | MOBI | PDF | DOC | Source content

   Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services Multidimensional Performance and Operations Guide Thomas Kejser and Denny LeeGuide

Download this book to learn about Analysis Services Multidimensional performance tuning from an operational and development perspective. This book consolidates the previously published SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services Operations Guide and SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services Performance Guide into a single publication that you can view on portable devices.

Applies to: SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012Source: White paperE-book publication date: May 2012 200 pagesEPUB | MOBI | PDF | Source content 1 | Source content 2

     QuickStart: Learn DAX Basics in 30 Minutes Owen Duncan Quick Step-by-Step

This QuickStart is for users new to PowerPivot or tabular model projects authored in SQL Server Data Tools. It is meant to give you a quick and easy introduction on how you can use Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) to solve a number of basic data modeling and analytical problems.

Applies to: PowerPivot for Excel (all versions), SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012Source: TechNet WikiE-book publication date: May 2012 13 pagesEPUB | MOBI | PDF | Source content

     SQL Server 2012 Transact-SQL DML ReferenceSQL Server 2012 Books OnlineReference

Data Manipulation Language (DML) is a vocabulary used to retrieve and work with data in SQL Server 2012. Use these statements to add, modify, query, or remove data from a SQL Server database.

Applies to: SQL Server 2012Source: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Books OnlineE-book publication date: May 2012 263 pagesEPUB | MOBI | PDF | Source content  

Windows Azure

       Windows Azure Prescriptive GuidanceLarry Franks, Sidney Higa, Suren Machiraju, Christian Martinez, Valery Mizonov, Walter Myers III, Rama Ramani, Jason Roth, Mark Simms, Paolo Salvatori, Adam Skewgar, Ralph Squillace, Patrick Wickline, Trace YoungGuideWindows Azure Prescriptive Guidance provides you with some of the best practices and recommendations for working with the Windows Azure platform. Categories cover planning, designing, developing, and managing a variety of different types of Windows Azure applications, including mobile, enterprise, and consumer-based applications. It also provides guidance for developers using non-.NET applications, libraries, and stacks with Windows Azure. Applies to: Windows Azure, Windows Azure SQL Database, Windows Azure Cloud Services, and Enterprise Integration Applications Source: MSDN LibraryE-book publication date: May 2012 422 pagesEPUB | MOBI | PDF | Source content  
     Windows Azure Service Bus ReferenceSeth Manheim and Ralph Squillace Reference

The Windows Azure Service Bus provides a hosted, secure, and widely available infrastructure for widespread communication, large-scale event distribution, naming, and service publishing. The Service Bus provides connectivity options for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and other service endpoints – including REST endpoints -- that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to reach. Endpoints can be located behind network address translation (NAT) boundaries, or bound to frequently-changing, dynamically-assigned IP addresses, or both.

Applies to: Windows Azure Service BusSource: MSDN LibraryE-book publication date: May 2012 260 pages EPUB | MOBI | PDF | Source content