Keyvan Nayyeri

After my post about Professional Visual Studio blog, Nick Randolph contacted me and we had a short email conversation.  In this conversation he invited me to join him and Dave Gardner on their blog about Visual Studio and as this was a good offer for some reasons that I outline in a moment, I accepted and joined them to help Visual Studio community if I can.

Since Nick and Dave are working on Professional Visual Studio 2008 title for Wiley/Wrox and I'm working on Professional Visual Studio Extensibility which is the next book in the Visual Studio category for Wrox and a complementary for it, we can have a close collaboration to provide the best content to the community.

More interestingly, we have same editors because Katie Mohr and Bill Bridges are our editors and this can tune both books in a good way.

Thank to Dave Gardner, now I have my account on Professional Visual Studio blog and will start the progress there.  Dave was kind enough to introduce me there.  Obviously I'm not going to post about mathematics or Xbox 360 on this blog so you can expect me to send posts about Visual Studio Extensibility to feed the community especially about new stuff such as Visual Studio Shell or Domain-Specific languages.  Beside these, we're going to promote both books on this site/blog and use it to complement our books with useful tips, tricks and new stuff that can be helpful for everyone.  So if you're interested in Visual Studio then it's worthwhile to subscribe to the RSS feed and follow us there.

In my opinion this is a good opportunity for us to complement our books and help Visual Studio community.  As I outlined, the lack of a good community behind Visual Studio, especially about its extensibility, is one of main negative points for Visual Studio.  Now that we (as three authors of two books about Visual Studio) are here to collaborate on this topic, we can expect better days for this community.

As you know, we're close to the final release of Visual Studio 2008 and I'm also very close to finish writing manuscripts of my book and this is good news because it can guarantee the current publish date for end of March 2008.