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Professional Visual Studio 2010 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

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I've been using Visual Studio for development for as long as .NET has been around,
I've had no problem getting code written, compiled and debugged.

In the back of my mind I knew that Visual Studio had a heap of features and
would often see a presenter press a button here, or change a setting there,
and would think that one day I'll spend some time digging deeper into Visual Studio.

With the release of 2010, Visual Studio is bigger than ever, and I'm really glad that
I choose this book as my tour guide.

I was a bit arrogant to think that I could learn all the features of Visual Studio without
this book, it took 4 authors (and it's not a little book at all), to cover Visual Studio 2010.

Any full time developer who hasn't read a book on Visual Studio, now's about time you did,
and I recommend this tome(did I mention its not a little book?!).

Two huge learning curves await anyone that wants to know about MSFT's .NET framework 1) The Framework itself and 2) The tool to develop the applicaitons. Having spent lots of time learning just the framework (going back to version 1.0) I hadn't dug into the IDE much. I just downloaded the free versions of Visual Studio Express and dug in. Owning the current version of VS2010 Professional has changed that for me, and I figured I should "dig-in". This book is perfect for that.

There are 57 chapters in this book with almost 100% focus on Visual Studio. Very rarely does the book go into the Framework details other than to show you how to set up specific things within Visual Studio to go to next step. It's exactly the book you need if you are a good .NET programmer but want to take it to the next "Professional" level. By learning the internals of Visual Studio itself, you are destined to become a "Professional" .NET developer.

I highly recommend this one, as there wan't a single chapter in the entire book that didn't hold my interest to some degree.

As shortly said in the title:
according to me this book offers a good (i.e. extended) coverage of the features offered by Visual Studio 2010, including the many new features in this 2010 version. There's plenty of features described, and as a professional you cannot go without at least knowing that they exist... You have to know well your main tool!
In the final chapters the book also gives an overview of so-called "Application Lifecycle Management" related features: check the other Visual Studio Wrox book on A.L.M. if you need a deeper description on those topics.
Maybe, in order to get the book done so quickly after VS2010 release, not everything has been thoroughly reviewed: and here's the bad part.
It happened many times to find broken/bugged code examples; code samples with missing bits or missing textual description; changes in subsequent versions of a code sample with misleading highlighted differences. The result is that sometimes you are left to wonder if it's you don't getting the meaning, or not coding it right, and wasting some time trying to fix it.

I am a computer programming student and I have bought more than my fair share of required $100+ programming books and supplemental programming books that have been a hunk of junk. This is really a great book!! By page 100 I could tell this book would be by my side all the time while I am using Visual Studio 2010 both in academic and professional environments! Like others have said, this book is HUGE but it is packed with so much vital information. Hands down, Buy the book!!

I have not used Visual Studio since VS 6! Long time. So when I got a new position working in .NET and with VS 2010, I knew I needed some extra reference material.

I have been seriously impressed with VS 2010. A bit bulky, but wow is it powerful! This book has covered all aspects I have needed.

Wow! There is so much here! So much more than I expected. I learn something everytime I open the book. It seems a bit hard for me to adapt to the suffistaced terminology. But I suppose that is necessary. I love the book and although I need to read each part, then go back over it again, (often more than once) to get a better idea of what it means, it is very helpful! I'll hang in there and it will keep helping me.

Makes many complex features instantly accessible. Provides good footing for further exploration if desired. Simple, practical selection of features to highlight. Avoids esoteric coverage of many other niche books.

Good and received the books much earlier than expected. Didn't have any issues. Was happy with the service and no issues.

This book is a piece of crap! What good is an IT Tool without working examples. I gurantee the author touched numerous topics in this book and no working examples have been provided to support the theory. After all, readers want to see stuff in action. I bet if you depend on examples in a tech book, then this book will disappoint you for sure!!!

This book was a big disappointment. I do Visual C++ programming, which Visual Studio 2010 of course supports, and which you'd expect a book called "Visual Studio 2010 Professional" to cover. But there's nothing in this book on Visual C++. There's nothing even in the index on;

C++
Visual C++
VC
vcxproj
includes
MFC
Microsoft Foundation Classes

So this book is 1177 pages of useless information for me. A complete waste of $30.