Keyvan Nayyeri

The new project that had made me busy over the last month was a book.  My new book that I write for Wiley/Wrox is entitled "Professional Visual Studio Add-ins and Extensions with C#".

This book is all about Visual Studio Extensibility and discussing about extensibility options in Visual Studio with C# language as the primary language for codes.  However, Visual Studio macros will be covered in a separate appendix because it's not possible to write macros with C# or other languages than Visual Basic.  I'll cover all extensibility options in Visual Studio by giving different examples and sample codes.

I'll use Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) for this book and will update the content with latest bits and hopefully will cover all old and new extensibility options together.

Growing number of community requests for having resources about Visual Studio Extensibility and Microsoft's attempts to improve its documentation and community support about VSX, made me sure about this idea and I sent the proposal.  Fortunately, Wiley approved my proposal and it's almost one month that I've begun working on this book.

After co-authoring Professional Community Server for Wrox and getting good experiences from that title from editors and other authors, this is the first book that I write as author lonely.

Writing such a book is a pleasure for me especially because I'm working with a group of experienced editors.  Acquisitions Editor of the book is Katie Mohr.  You may know her from some famous Wrox titles that she has worked on such as Professional VB 2005 or Professional C# 2005.  She was the first person who suggested the idea of this book to me and helped me to get started.  She and Tom Dinse, the Senior Editor of the book, are two great Wiley editors that I was lucky to have on this book.  Development Editor of this book is Bill Bridges.  Nowadays, I'm working with him in order to get chapters done in the best form.  Bill is an author himself and has a book entitled A Fine Smirr of Rain.  Technical Editor of this book is Cody Reichenau who I'm sure has to correct many technical mistakes by me in the content!!  So far, these editors have done a valuable job on the book and I should thank them here.

Book doesn't have a public link for pre-orders yet.  We have some plans for release date and other stuff but will announce them in next stages.

I hope I can write a good and worth to read book for .NET community though!