Professional Visual Studio 2008 was officially published today and should now be in stock at your favourite online book store. If you’re an instructor at an accredited educational institution, you can request an evaluation copy from the publisher. Wrox also has a User Group Program, which allows your local user group to request a review copy of the book.
Once you get your hands on a copy of the book, don’t forget to download the associated source code from Wrox.
We’re also excited to announce that Wiley Publishing have advised us that it will be translated into Simplified Chinese. We will update you as soon as we hear any further information on the availability of that version.
We’ve requested some promotional copies from the publisher to give away to the readers of this website. The details of this are still being worked out, as we are hoping to ensure that it’s not limited to U.S. residents only. Stay tuned for more information on this in the near future.
We sincerely hope you find Professional Visual Studio 2008 to be a useful resource. We very keen to hear feedback on the book (both positive and negative), so if you have any comments or questions, please comment on a post in this blog or send us an email.
Please, be sure to include Mexico in your promotion
I’ll do my best, but can’t make any promises at this stage unfortunately.
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I have good experience working with VS 2003 & 2005. I haven’t worked yet with VS 2008, will this book be enough for me instead of taking a course, which tend to be basic & useless most of the time.
I think you will find our book to be ideal. In addition to covering Visual Studio 2008 itself, we also provide an introduction of many of the new language features and .NET Framework 3.0/3.5 functionality, such as LINQ, WPF, WCF, WF, etc. While we obviously can’t go into enough depth to make you an expert in these topics, we cover the fundamentals of them pretty well and certainly give you enough information to get a project up and running with these technologies.
I’ve had the same frustrations with taking courses, and have more than once felt that the instructor didn’t know the topic very well at all. The only really useful thing about taking a course is that it forces you to spend the time learning about the topic. However with a book you can skip over the introductory chapters on the basics of Visual Studio, and spend your time reading the chapters that cover the topics you are most interested in.