Microsoft Freebie - Worth Applying

ErinGoBrath

Hi all,

A mate forwarded me on this link. If you sign up to MSDN Connection Ireland (it's free) your entitled to one of the following books to be deliever to your house for free:

Programming Microsoft .NET (ISBN: 0-7356-1376-1)
Microsoft .NET and J2EE Interoperability Toolkit (ISBN: 0-7356-1922-0)
Microsoft Visual C# .NET Step by Step--Version 2003 (ISBN: 0-7356-1909-3)
C# for Java Developers (ISBN: 0-7356-1779-1)
Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 for Developers (ISBN: 0-7356-2058-X)
Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 (ISBN: 0-7356-2024-5)
Microsoft .NET Compact Framework (ISBN: 0-7356-1725-2)
Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for Developers ISBN: 0-7356-1962-X
Writing Secure Code, 2nd Edition (ISBN: 0-7356-1722-8)

These books are worth a few quid and the registration is painless so its defo worth registering.

Oh and by the way the closing date for this is today!!!

Linkage

bla

according to the site closing date is june 30th
so another day but i dunno at what time on the 30th is closes might be american time etc

fintan

well i just signed up and ordered a free book, seems to be irish time

mokeymokey

order went true for me only time will tell

nachos

at what stage can you order a book?
i signed up and it never gave me an option to get my free buke....

dudara

It doesn't automatically show you the option for your book, Have a look at the left-hand side menu once you're logged in. There's something there like membership benefits, or something.

Maybe another member knows what it's called

Peteee

ErinGoBrath wrote:

Writing Secure Code, 2nd Edition (ISBN: 0-7356-1722-8)

Eh, this is from microsoft, right :rolleyes:

The_B_Man

i got programming .NET off them. ordered it to me student house. then got me little sis to order visual C# .NET to be delivered here.

when u log in, there should be an optin for a "Press Book". click that and ur suckin diesel!

there'll prob also be a link for the visual studio 2005 beta.

ErinGoBrath

The_B_Man wrote:

there'll prob also be a link for the visual studio 2005 beta.

Ordered that aswell. Quality :cool:

egan007

When selecting the book
My Redeem Now button will not become active (im using mozilla)

ErinGoBrath

egan007 wrote:

When selecting the book
My Redeem Now button will not become active (im using mozilla)

Windows key + E

Copy the address into the address path and voila! Internet explorer and free book


Typical Microsoft anti firefox ploy :rolleyes:

egan007

ErinGoBrath wrote:

Windows key + E

Copy the address into the address path and voila! Internet explorer and free book


Typical Microsoft anti firefox ploy :rolleyes:

One problem My Keyboard says Sun on it
and so does my OS

ErinGoBrath

egan007 wrote:

One problem My Keyboard says Sun on it
and so does my OS

He he, I can't imagine you'd get much use out of these books then

Basq

Ordered the C# one a couple a month or two back... took at least a month for it to reach me though!

damnyanks

Ordered a good few of them a few weeks ago. God bless knowing Irish

KroG

Yea i just ordered mine now just aswell i spoted it before time runs out

Our man in Havana

I ordered on too. Should fit under the short leg of the table:D

Sparky

^^^^^^LOL


Got mine aswell, also orderd visual studio

eirebhoy

Programming Microsoft .NET (ISBN: 0-7356-1376-1)

I got this one a couple of weeks ago and have yet to even look at it. Doubt I ever will tbh but it has a $59.99 price tag on it so I'll keep it.

IronMan

I managed to order 6 of them. The one that I really wanted Microsoft Visual C# .NET Step by Step--Version 2003 (ISBN: 0-7356-1909-3) wasn't available. Swappsies maybe if someone wants when we eventually get them. I love freebies, especially off Microsoft. That's what they get for not offering me that pleb job I didn't really want anyway!

wheres me jumpa

good call good sir

the_syco

Whats the catch?*





*It be M$. There's always a catch:(

Chad ghostal

Much thanks

Jimi-Spandex

Nice One ,

getting intro to vb myself

KroG

Just becareful when reading it, it's vb.net a slightly differnt thing but can work on every pc once they have .net framework installed on there pc.....

Writing Secure Code, 2nd Edition /me wonders why they have this when they can't make anything secure them selves !

skywalker_208

am i too late for this? im logged in but theres no order button beside or near free press book!

Chad ghostal

skywalker_208 wrote:

am i too late for this? im logged in but theres no order button beside or near free press book!

its probably too late by now, but check the member benefits on the left of the page..

ErinGoBrath

Glad I could be of assistance lads
:cool:

rancheros

egan007 wrote:

One problem My Keyboard says Sun on it
and so does my OS

don't worry brother i got it ordered last week, ordered the promgraming in c# or something like that. got a confirmation email of microsoft as well, also ordered visual studio 2005 beta for free and got a confirmation email.

seamus

Got this yesterday

Anyone else?

petes

Got mine ages ago. It was on the bargain alerts thread too


Still waiting for my massive free 32mb key from IBM though.

muckwarrior

Got mine yesterday too. ASP.NET 2.0

aidan_dunne

Still waiting here. It's been so long, I've forgotten what I ordered at this stage!

squibs

Got mine on Tuesday.

Sparky

i got visual studio, but no book ages ago, id say 3 weeks ago.

Bateman

"Exclusive member events". Haha, I will pretend to be a developer, and just raid the bar, or maybe not.

No free book link. Obviously the date has passed.

aodh_rua

Still no sign of mine either - I can't even remember what I went for

is_that_so

Got my book yesterday, 30 days+ but it arrived.

Sparky

i forgot what book i ordered, microsoft seem to be slow, i ordered a trial of xp 64bit and i never got it either

skywalker_208

no sign of mine... can remember which i ordered!