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Pre-Order for Coding Faster: Getting More Productive with Microsoft Visual Studio is Available

24 Jan 2011 1:00 AM
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http://www.amazon.com/Coding-Faster-Getting-Productive-Microsoft/dp/0735649928

 

 

Folks,

 

I just go the news that you you can pre-order the my book coming out entitled  Coding Faster: Getting More Productive with Microsoft Visual Studio.  As you may recall this is the complete revision of the tips found on the blog with new text, images, and summary data.  This is the one book that every Visual Studio developer should have in their library.  It covers versions 2005, 2008, and 2010 so we can get the tips out to people who are still using older versions of Visual Studio.  Help me get the word out and let’s see if we can get this into the hands of people who want to use VS better and faster!

 

As always, thanks to all of you for making this become a reality.  Make sure to give me open, honest feedback on what you think about the book and how we can make it better going forward.  As you know, I listen to what you say and I’m particularly proud that we got the title of the book from the community instead of some corporate people making one up.  :)

 

Z

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  • Ben
    24 Jan 2011 1:45 AM

    Congratulations.

    I am eager to see the TOC and a few sample pages to see how much the contents have been revised.

    Also, I would recommend O'Reilly since they will offer this in non-DRM eBook formats (PDF and several others) .

    > It covers versions 2005, 2008, and 2010

    To honest (you asked for it), that is a little concerning; it sounds like fluff. VS2010 has been out for close to a year now. It seems that--while not all--many developers have already moved to VS2010. Personally, about 95% of my work is done in 2010, with the rest occasional maintenance in 2008. Going forward, I can only see this trend increasing. Amazon lists the book at only 300 pages, so potentially two-thirds of it may not be very relevant anymore or at least of limited value.

  • 24 Jan 2011 5:45 AM

    Hey Ben :)

    MSPress and O'Reilly are the same now and I know there are plans to put the book out in several formats.  I see your point about the different versions but the fact is that most people are still on older versions of VS currently.  Many corporations are moving to VS2010 and it is certainly our best release ever as far as I am concerned.  But the enterprise folks are usually slow to adopt the technology due simply to the size of the developer pools they have to roll it out to.  It usually takes a couple of years to get everyone on a new version.

    As for the fluff, the way I did the book is that 99.99% of the tips work with VS2010.  The cirteria for the book was that they had to work with VS2010 and then if they worked with older versions I would include the older version as well.  It turned out that I could cover all the new features in 2010 and still have tons of stuff for 2005 and 2008.  

    I'm actually thinking of putting something like the "Tips Challenge" on the book and listing the top 3-5 up front where if they don't immediately help you then I will suggest not buying the book.  Not sure if the publishers will let me get away with it.

    Z

  • Daniel Rose
    24 Jan 2011 7:25 AM

    While I do new work in VS2010, if possible, we have most code in VS2005. The reason is that we use third-party libraries which need to be compiled against the VS2005 runtime in order to work. For example, we have a plugin for SolidWorks, which only in the upcoming 2011 release is moving to VS2008.

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