Keyvan Nayyeri

It’s been quite a while since Simone and I had published updates about our upcoming Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 book. Of course, we had some updates on our Twitter accounts but not a detailed one.

The main update about the book in the past 2-3 months was an additional round of major reviews aiming to adjust the audience level, usefulness of content, and flow of chapters, that were proposed to improve the quality of the book. During this review we applied some significant changes in the content and rewrote some parts which also delayed the publication date of the book for a short while.

But finally we’re so close to the end of reviews and we expect to complete them by the end of this week which makes us more certain about the release date of the book in June.

However, today Simone broke the silence around the book by writing about the new sample chapter of our book. Jim Minatel published a sample draft of chapter 9 of our book entitled Testing ASP.NET MVC Applications on Wrox forums which is available for public download. Recently we had a Sample Chapter Flu on the community, so we decided to add our own chapter to the stream.

Of course, this draft is in the pure Word format and there is a high chance to be edited, but it can be a good start point to share the stuff with the community and receive the feedback. So we would be happy to hear your thoughts on this sample chapter on the forum. Also there is a forum dedicated to this title where we listen to any thought or comment that you have for us.

Besides, I’d like to congratulate Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 author team on the release of their book which is doubtlessly one of the best programming books available today. This team should have done a great job on this title. Also I have to especially thank Phil Haack for sharing his thoughts on our book that helped us improve it.

As the last note, I think that I’m going to write a post explaining the logic behind Wrox series and how these series are designed to target specific audience and needs. This is specifically helpful as we’re going to publish a Beginning series book there may be some readers who are not aware of its level and target audience.