Keyvan Nayyeri

Three weeks ago I announced the official availability of my Professional Visual Studio Extensibility book.

Now after these three weeks I've received some initial feedbacks and community reactions about the book that let me give some initial impressions about it.

In this short while, book has been made available on more online booksellers and I think that it's now available everywhere.

None of the readers have been able to finish the book (or at least I haven't hear about anyone yet) but some of those who have read first chapters told me that they are written very well.

One common question that I've received from some buddies was about the electronic format of the book. I contacted Katie Mohr at Wiley and she followed up with me about the Kindle and PDF formats. Wiley provides electronic formats and requests them from Amazon but normally it takes a while to be accepted and be ready.

On the other hand, there were some guys who asked me for promotional copies or I contacted them myself. I've asked Wiley about the status of these copies and will inform them as soon as I get a response.

One of the several signs of the book's success may be its sales rank that I got an excellent rank for the book so far. For a special topic like Visual Studio Extensibility this looks like a good rank.

At the end, I'd like to thank some people who helped and promoted the book after official release including Simone Chiaretta, Carlos Quintero, Alvin Ashcraft (don't miss his great link blog), Darren Stokes, Dmitry Pavlov, Chris Alcock and Brennan Stehling (who has shared a photo of his copies as well).

I'm eager to hear about feedbacks especially negative feedbacks. Since this book is a small part of the community progress for Visual Studio Extensibility in 2008, I'm going to wrap up all these feedbacks and share them with a group of VSX experts that are joined together under the VSX Insiders umbrella. So there is no doubt that all feedbacks can help the community somehow.