Professional Visual Studio Extensibility - Available at Microsoft Company Store
In the past months many times I stated that Visual Studio Extensibility is activated for 2008 and this is proven with many programs, events and activities around the community.
This progress was slow in the last month but it's now being reactivated by the announcement of Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 Beta and some other news about the community.
Today Ken Levy wrapped up latest news about the VSX community in VSX Community Letter for May 2008 and outlined some important activities and events that are happening on the community.
Ken first talks about VS 2008 SDK 1.1 Beta and then lists some important upcoming events about Visual Studio Extensibility as well as some community content. There is also a new page at Wikipedia about VSX that needs your help to be better.
As a part of this letter, Ken also talks about the availability of my Professional Visual Studio Extensibility book at Microsoft store in Redmond where Microsoft employees can buy some stuff.
The Microsoft company store now stocks the Professional Visual Studio Extensibility, which is significant since only selected technical books are stocked in the Microsoft Company Store in Redmond for Microsoft employees. We find that there is a growing number of VSX developers within Microsoft outside the VSX team, with various product teams extending VS for either internal use or for parts of various products based on the VS platform.
As Ken says, this is significant because not many books are in stock at this store. I'm happy to see that this book could be chosen as a helpful book for those many experiences developers at Microsoft and hope that it can help them (and all other readers) as much as it can.
The other news about the book is a review that was published a short while ago by Kevin Blakeley on his DevAuthority blog that explained the structure of the book and his positive opinions about it.
One negative point that Kevin has pointed is about the structure of source code samples in the content of the book. Generally he's right. But I have some logical reasons about this. If you take a look at these source code samples, you can see that I have tried to structure them as much as I can but the width of some source samples is more than the paper of the book. In general, VSX codes have this in common and somehow this was unavoidable.
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1 Comment : 05.21.08
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What is New with Professional Visual Studio Extensibility?
06.11.2008 @ 3:09 PM
My Professional Visual Studio Extensibility book was released in March 2008 (three months ago) and now