We’ve just posted an updated Table of Contents for our forthcoming Professional Visual Studio 2008 book. In addition to changes to a number of chapter titles, we’ve made a couple of more significant modifications.

Firstly, on advice from Keyvan (the expert on this topic), we’ve condensed the Automation section from 5 chapters down to 3. You’ll just have to purchase a copy of Professional Visual Studio Extensibility so that you can deep-dive into this topic properly.

Secondly, we’ve moved Client Application Services into a separate chapter of its own. From what Nick told me, it became evident pretty quickly that it was a big enough topic to justify this.

Finally, and what I’m most excited about, we’ve added a chapter titled “Next Generation Web: Silverlight and ASP.NET MVC“. This will cover these two very exciting new technologies from Microsoft. I’ll be focusing as much as possible on Silverlight 2.0 – from the sounds of it, there will be a beta and Go-Live license by Mix 08 in early March. This will be just in time to slip into the book before my final deadline. Also the ASP.NET MVC Framework, which is quite simply the best thing to happen in the world of Microsoft web development since ASP.NET v1.0, will be getting some decent coverage in the book.