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• Yet More Book News

  It's a bookish day apparently. I am pleased to pass on news of the availability of the book Eric Carter and I wrote about VSTO, now in Chinese. Here is Jie Wang holding a copy of the original C# book and the VSTO开发指南 Visual Basic book: Many thanks to Read More... Posted Monday, April 28, 2008 7:42 AM by Eric Lippert | 0 Comments Filed under: VSTO, Books

• Recent Book News, Part Two

  Two additional quick notes about books: I am also pleased to announce the availability of the C# 3.0 Cookbook , for which I was again lucky enough to be one of the technical reviewers. Many thanks to the authors for giving the shout-out to this blog in Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2008 10:32 AM by Eric Lippert | 4 Comments Filed under: VSTO, C#, Books

• Recent Book News, Part One

  Good day and Happy New Year everyone, I hope you had a restful and joyous festive holiday season. I sure did. Before I get back into my series on immutable data structures I have a few news items regarding books. First off, I am pleased to announce the Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 9:04 AM by Eric Lippert | 7 Comments Filed under: C#, Books

• Visual Studio Tools For Office: Using Visual Basic 2005 with Excel, Work, Outlook and InfoPath

  Eric Carter and I are excited to announce that the Visual Basic edition of our book about Visual Studio Tools for Office is now available. I'd like to give a big thank-you to everyone who put their time, energy and enthusiasm behind this project, particularly Read More... Posted Monday, May 01, 2006 9:47 AM by Eric Lippert | 5 Comments Filed under: VSTO, Books

• Book Signing at the PDC

  It's a week until PDC! Very exciting. Unfortunately I'm not going this year but my coauthor and erstwhile lead Eric Carter will be there, along with Misha Shneerson and Andrew Whitechapel . He'll be talking about VSTO 2.0 (the about-to-be-released product) Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 07, 2005 8:25 AM by Eric Lippert | 3 Comments Filed under: VSTO, Books

• I'm So Prolix

  I mentioned earlier today that my latest book project has gone to copyediting. To forestall a few questions: Are you the sole author? Good heavens no. Most of the heavy lifting was done by my colleague Eric Carter . I’m just along to make sure that his Read More... Posted Monday, June 06, 2005 5:27 PM by Eric Lippert | 11 Comments Filed under: Books

• Books, Books, Books

  It looks like the intricacies of higher-dimensional geometry will have to wait another week; I am incredibly heads-down putting the finishing touches on VSTO and the book that Eric Carter and I are writing on VSTO. We're due to have it ready for copy-editing Read More... Posted Thursday, May 26, 2005 6:23 PM by Eric Lippert | 2 Comments Filed under: Books

• How many Microsoft employees does it take to change a lightbulb?

  Any new feature which does not serve a large percentage of users is essentially stealing valuable resources that could be spent implementing features, fixing bugs or looking for security vulnerabilities that DO impact the lives of millions of people. Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2003 1:41 PM by Eric Lippert | 46 Comments Filed under: Rants, Books

• Dead Trees vs. Bits

  Speaking of books, people keep telling me and Peter and Raymond that we should write books based on our blogs. Well, I probably am going to write another book this winter, but it will have pretty much nothing to do with the stuff in this blog. The natures of a blog and a book are very different Read More... Posted Thursday, October 16, 2003 1:03 PM by Eric Lippert | 3 Comments Filed under: Rants, Books

• Digging A Security Hole All The Way To China

  I mentioned earlier that I wrote one of the last books published by the now-bankrupt Wrox Press. Read More... Posted Monday, October 13, 2003 3:49 PM by Eric Lippert | 3 Comments Filed under: Security, Books

• Wrox is dead, long live Wrox

  A number of people have expressed surprise to me that Wrox is out of business. Here's the scoop. Read More... Posted Monday, October 13, 2003 5:10 PM by Eric Lippert | 1 Comments Filed under: Books