I’m very pleased to announce that all 965 pages of Professional Visual Studio 2008 have been written, edited, and handed to the production team. This means that it should still be available on its scheduled release date (28th July 2008).
The last five months have been pretty hectic for both Nick and I, as Visual Studio 2008 has consumed most of our waking hours in one way or another. Visual Studio has even entered my dreams a couple of times, but I’ll save that story for my therapist 
Writing a book while maintaining a full-time job was certainly very challenging, but I’ve learnt so much that I never would have found the time to learn otherwise.
We were also lucky to have three excellent guest authors on this book – Miguel Madero, Keyvan Nayyeri, and Joel Pobar. Miguel wrote 5 chapters on the different Team System Editions and TFS. Keyvan authored 3 chapters on Automation and also helped out as a technical editor on a bunch of chapters. Joel contributed a chapter that explained the different types of programming languages (imperative, declarative, dynamic, and functional) that included a great walkthrough of F#.
While I’m going to take it a little easier for a couple of months now, I now finally have time to share some of the things that I’ve discovered over the last few months.
Congratulations, Dave
I know that you and Nick have done a great job on this book. Can’t wait to see it out.
Thanks Keyvan. Also many thanks for stepping in to help out as a technical editor at the end. We never would have met our deadline without you.
hey dave, congrats on the book! who would have thought it way back in ISA
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