FREE eBooks & Whitepapers

This is a repository for all the links to FREE eBooks, MS Word Documents, and Whitepapers I discover from time to time.  Please notify me if any of these links are broken. 

@Microsoft:   ( try using a targeted Google search )

Patterns & Practices

• Design and Implementation Guidelines for Web Clients (PDF) [ Download page ]

Microsoft Research

• Design and Implementation of Generics for the .NET Common Language Runtime (PDF) [ Download page ] 
• OOPSLA 2003: Unifying Tables, Objects and Documents (PDF)

Other Microsoft Technologies

• Developing Custom MOM Reports Version 2.0 with Sql Server 2000 Reporting Services
• Reporting Services Books Online January 2004 Update

Elsewhere...

SQL

• The Definitive Guide™ to SQL Server Performance Optimization eBook  (PDF) [ Request-form ]

Xml

• TopXml: XPath reference, the XSLT reference and DOM reference  (PDF) (Html)