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Professional Visual Studio Extensibility - Finally Released

As was planned from a few months ago today is the official release date of my Professional Visual Studio Extensibility book from Wiley/Wrox. This official release date isn't something very constant among publishers and is just an official date and nothing more!

In fact book has been available on some online sellers from a few days ago and some other sellers like Amazon and Barnes and Nobel make it available in the next a few days. But book is available for purchase on Wiley and Wrox sites and those who have pre-ordered this title from these sites should receive their copies in a few days.

If you're going to order the book on Amazon then you have a chance to order it with a great book entitled Advanced Windows Debugging from Addison-Wesley with a discount.

We're also going to provide the Amazon Kindle format for everyone who's interested to have it. However, this depends on Amazon to accept our request and follow up on it.

On the other hand, those who have contacted me to receive free copies (or those who I contacted them) should receive their copies from Wiley in a few days.

If you're asking for some sample chapters, I can refer you to book's page on Wrox site where you can find three PDF files for the Table of Contents, first chapter of the book and its index. Unfortunately book details have not been updated on online sellers to include the regular details and recent stuff but they would get updated very soon.

I'm not going to ask you to order many copies for yourself, your family, your friends and your relatives because book should find its audience by the quality and it can speak for its own. I hope that the overall quality helps readers learn something new that can assist them in this field and this has been my primary goal when writing this book.

You may think that such an announcement is something sweet for an author but I'd tell you that the sweet part of book authoring is writing process which is already finished and now the interesting part begins for readers.

For me this book has been something more special than other similar books. The writing process took over six months and didn't go easily. As I described shortly in the acknowledgements page, this book is written when I had to serve in days and get back to home so tired. I never can believe that I could make this but the reality is the fact that human can make everything possible! Not only it helped me pass 6-7 months of my military service with a good hobby but it also helped me learn many things from book writing process, Visual Studio Extensibility and more than everything gave me the pleasure to work with some cool guys.

While 2008 is the year of Visual Studio Extensibility and some smart guys on Visual Studio Ecosystem team are working hard to improve this field I'm so happy to see that my book is getting out to help this process to some extent and help the community. There is no doubt that we're going to have lots of community events about Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX) in the next months and it's very good to prepare the community for this stuff.

My book which is actually our book, with collaboration from all editors of the book, is a unique book because there is no similar title dedicated to VSX on the market. There are a few titles that cover add-ins and macros in good details but none of them cover major extensibility topics. This gives my book the chance to find a better audience and market and I hope that it can open some space for newer titles with better quality about VSX in near future.

If you're going to read the book, I'd recommend you to read the Introduction section before anything because this book doesn't come with a regular Wrox series introduction and has a lot of stuff to say about Visual Studio Extensibility and its community, their history and their future! From this view, this book is also a special book. I've been a big fan of Wrox titles for a long while but never read such an introduction in other titles!

The final result wouldn't be the best but I hope that we can be close to our goals in this title. For this book we wanted to achieve some goals and one of them was covering the major topics of Visual Studio Extensibility in good details. VSX is one of the fields that has a lot of space to work on and we need to cover it more than the past. By nature this topic is a little harder to learn than other .NET related topics so you need to put some extra effort to learn it very well.

Community reactions have already begun and let me point out to the recent Madison user group event where Brennan Stehling talked about Code Generation, Software Factories and Visual Studio Extensibility and we were lucky to ship him free copies of my book to give out in the event.

Here I'd like to quote the acknowledgements page of the book to thank everybody who helped me on this title again:

First of all, thanks to God for my existence and for everything! While I was writing this book, I was also doing my required military service and had to be away from home for half days, so had a very limited time to work. God really helped me get this book done ahead of schedule and also helped me work on such a special topic as Visual Studio Extensibility. Moreover, thanks to God for my being such a lucky guy and getting the help of a great editorial team. I was writing this book in one side of the world, and the editorial team was editing it in the other side, in the United States.

After that, thanks to Bill Bridges and Cody Reichenau the development and technical editors of this book, who collaborated with me closely in order to deliver the best possible content to readers. If it’s good, it’s their great work, and if it’s bad, it’s my bad work!

Bill spent a lot of time copyediting and applying the changes I made in the content. Working with a kid and a non-English author wasn’t easy for him. I made some major changes in the book as the writing proceeded and even renamed it. The simplicity of the text reflects the excellent job he did with the original. Thanks, Bill, for your patience and the great effort you put into the book. I’m sure you’ll edit this page to be much better than the original acknowledgments!

As technical editor, Cody helped me to fill many gaps in technical details and improve the content. Editing a title about Visual Studio Extensibility isn’t so easy, believe me. He caught my technical mistakes and helped me to solve them. Like Bill, Cody has had an important effect on the quality of the content. Thank you, Cody!

I also have to give credit to the acquisitions editor of the book, Katie Mohr. The original idea of this book is hers—she suggested that I write such a title about Visual Studio add-ins and extensions based on C# language. She was also like the book’s director, helping match different people on the team and answering questions about the book’s publishing progress. It was a pleasure to work with her and others from Wiley.

My special thanks also go to Tom Dinse, senior editor, who connected me and the editorial team with other teams and solved problems during the writing process.

I would thank anyone else who helped us get this book done, both inside Wiley and Wrox and also outside, including Ken Levy, the product manager of the Visual Studio Ecosystem team at Microsoft, and Simone Chiaretta, my dear friend in Italy who helped me with some translations.

Finally I thank my best friend, Mehrdad Ebrahimi, who has been a great friend and support for me in life and also helped me with his comments and thoughts during the writing process.

Alright, enough for now! You should be able to read some technical reviews about the book in next couple of months because some .NET communities, community members and bloggers are going to receive free copies to review it. I'm looking forward for your feedbacks and I'll be glad to hear them. I hope that I can share my experiences on this book with other authors who are going to write better titles about VSX in the future. Community really needs new titles with a more specific coverage on topics!

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