ANN: Free PDF books for registered users of Visual Studio 2005

[Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP]]

Hi all,

I just wanted to let you know that if you have registering Visual Studio
2005 finally has some benefits. You can get electronic PDF books about
Visual Studio 2005 and some other stuff.

For example, the updated book "Working with Visual Studio 2005" by Craig
Skibo and others (previously "Inside Visual Studio .NET 2003"), is finally
accesible for registered users (MSDN subscribers at least). As you may know,
this book is not on sale (a MS Press decision) and previously you needed to
buy a boxed copy of VS 2005 to get it in the package. Now the book is
available in PDF format registering your copy of VS 2005. There is also
another book about Visual Studio 2005 Team System.

- The registration benefits are described at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/regbenefits/

- To actually register your copy, open VS 2005, click the "Help" \ "Register
Product." menu,
receive an e-mail and follow the steps. This time it works (some weeks ago
some books were missing), I got my copy.

Best regards,

Carlos J. Quintero (MVP)

MZ-Tools: Productivity add-ins for Visual Studio
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[Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP]]

"...that if you have registering Visual Studio 2005 finally has some
benefits."

Read: "...that registering Visual Studio 2005 finally has some benefits."

I suppose that I am too excited to write correctly <g>, the book was not on
sale and it was really hard to get:

http://blogs.msdn.com/craigskibo/archive/2005/11/29/498111.aspx#comments

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Best regards,

Carlos J. Quintero

MZ-Tools: Productivity add-ins for Visual Studio
You can code, design and document much faster:
http://www.mztools.com

 

[Brett Wickard]

I got all psyched for this and registered, but just get an error message
when I hit the Microsoft Connect site.

Error: The page you have requested is unavailable or you do not have access.

Anyone else getting that message?

 

[pvdg42]

Hi all,

I just wanted to let you know that if you have registering Visual Studio
2005 finally has some benefits. You can get electronic PDF books about
Visual Studio 2005 and some other stuff.

For example, the updated book "Working with Visual Studio 2005" by Craig
Skibo and others (previously "Inside Visual Studio .NET 2003"), is finally
accesible for registered users (MSDN subscribers at least). As you may
know, this book is not on sale (a MS Press decision) and previously you
needed to buy a boxed copy of VS 2005 to get it in the package. Now the
book is available in PDF format registering your copy of VS 2005. There is
also another book about Visual Studio 2005 Team System.

- The registration benefits are described at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/regbenefits/

- To actually register your copy, open VS 2005, click the "Help" \
"Register Product." menu,
receive an e-mail and follow the steps. This time it works (some weeks ago
some books were missing), I got my copy.

Best regards,

Carlos J. Quintero (MVP)

MZ-Tools: Productivity add-ins for Visual Studio
You can code, design and document much faster:
http://www.mztools.com

My tired old eyes need help here, Carlos.
Where does a MSDN subscriber go to download the PDF?
Thanks!

 

[Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP]]

My tired old eyes need help here, Carlos.
Where does a MSDN subscriber go to download the PDF?

- Open VS 2005
- Click the "Help" \ "Register Product." menu and follow the steps on the
web page that appears.
- Once registered, you receive an e-mail with a link.
- Click the link and you go to the page with the books and software to
download.

There are one or two logon steps in the whole process.

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Best regards,

Carlos J. Quintero

MZ-Tools: Productivity add-ins for Visual Studio
You can code, design and document much faster:
http://www.mztools.com

 

[Oenone]

I got all psyched for this and registered, but just get an error
message when I hit the Microsoft Connect site.

Error: The page you have requested is unavailable or you do not have
access.

Exactly the same here. Nice.

 

[Brett Wickard]

If anyone does successfully register and get a download, could they please
post-back that they did? (O)enone and I both registered and just get an
error page when connecting to the Microsoft Connect site...

 

[Doug Handler]

Carlos,

I must be missing something, I've received the email, followed the steps and
all i get is access to a bunch of icons. Is it not suppose to be on the same
"page" as where we download these icons?

 

[Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP]]

Hi Brett,

Of course I did before posting....

Can you try the following?

- Go to http://connect.microsoft.com/
- Click on the "My participation" link to the left (or similar, I get a
localized Spanish page)
- Sign Up in the "New to Microsoft Connect" zone
- Repeat the VS 2005 registration

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Best regards,

Carlos J. Quintero

MZ-Tools: Productivity add-ins for Visual Studio
You can code, design and document much faster:
http://www.mztools.com

 

[Oenone]

Exactly the same here. Nice.

Hmm, are you using Firefox by any chance, Brett? I am.

I just tried it again using IE, and it worked...

 

[Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP]]

I used IE too...

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Best regards,

Carlos J. Quintero

MZ-Tools: Productivity add-ins for Visual Studio
You can code, design and document much faster:
http://www.mztools.com

 

[Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP]]

I am not sure what's going on, but using IE 6.0 and having got VS 2005
through an MSDN subscription it worked for me...

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Best regards,

Carlos J. Quintero

MZ-Tools: Productivity add-ins for Visual Studio
You can code, design and document much faster:
http://www.mztools.com

 

[Brett Wickard]

I bet you're right...I do use Firefox also...

Bummer, I can't get around the error... IE also brings up the same error.
Fudge.

 

[Brett Wickard]

Thanks for the idea and help... Sadly, New to Microsoft Connect does not
appear there for me...

 

[Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP]]

Thanks for the idea and help... Sadly, New to Microsoft Connect does not
appear there for me...

I signed up some time ago so I did not have to sign up today, just sign in,
but I see both options, one in each zone.
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Best regards,

Carlos J. Quintero

MZ-Tools: Productivity add-ins for Visual Studio
You can code, design and document much faster:
http://www.mztools.com

 

[Tim Anderson]

I am not sure what's going on, but using IE 6.0 and having got VS 2005
through an MSDN subscription it worked for me...

I got the error page several times, then suddenly the download links
appeared.

Not a good advertisement for the technology :-(

But at least they appeared eventually

Tim
"Application Blocks" for .NET 2.0
http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?postid=293

 

[pvdg42]

- Open VS 2005
- Click the "Help" \ "Register Product." menu and follow the steps on the
web page that appears.
- Once registered, you receive an e-mail with a link.
- Click the link and you go to the page with the books and software to
download.

There are one or two logon steps in the whole process.

--

Best regards,

Carlos J. Quintero

MZ-Tools: Productivity add-ins for Visual Studio
You can code, design and document much faster:
http://www.mztools.com

I registered, got the email with a link, but the link does not show the
promised benefits. Instead, it wants me to register in something called
"Microsoft Connect", then refuses my attempts claiming "The email address
you entered is already in use" and refuses to let me proceed. If I hit
"Cancel" on the registration page, I get the page showing available *beta
test* programs, and again, no benefits.
Do you know of anybody I can contact via email or telephone to resolve this?
It's no mystery that my email addresses (tried both), as I'm a MSDNAA
Administrator, beta tester in several programs and an MVP.

 

[Hugh Janus]

What are the book(s) called?

 

[Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP]]

- Working with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System
- Working with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

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Best regards,

Carlos J. Quintero

MZ-Tools: Productivity add-ins for Visual Studio
You can code, design and document much faster:
http://www.mztools.com

 

[Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP]]

Sure, contact with the MS author of this blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/csnow/


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Best regards,

Carlos J. Quintero

MZ-Tools: Productivity add-ins for Visual Studio
You can code, design and document much faster:
http://www.mztools.com