Visual Studio Books for Professional Developers
Professional Visual Studio 2008
by Nick Randolph and David Gardner
Visual Studio 2008 is an enormous product. Incorporating the latest advances in both Visual Basic and C# as well as improvements and new features in the user interface, it can be daunting without the kind of guidance this book provides. In this book you'll learn to harness every feature of this remarkable development tool...Read More
Professional Visual Studio Extensibility
by Keyvan Nayyeri
Determined to make the Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX) learning process as smooth as possible, this helpful resource shows you how to use VSX in order to facilitate easier development of Microsoft programming languages and development technologies. Keyvan Nayyeri examines how VSX simplifies the processes of coding, compilation, deployment, debugging, and testing. Plus, numerous examples, sample code, and real-world case studies demonstrate the various extensibility options of VSX so that you can perform routine tasks easier and quicker...Read More
The gap between the best software engineering practice and the average practice is very wide - perhaps wider than any other engineering discipline. A tool that disseminates good practice would be important.Frederick P. Brooks,
No Silver Bullet - Essence and Accident in Software Engineering