Microsoft® Visual Studio 2008 Unleashed is an end-to-end, deep dive into the Visual Studio development environment. It’s meant to provide you guidance on how you can squeeze the ultimate productivity out of the many features built into the .NET development tools. Understanding how to use your tools will make you a better developer. This book was written with that premise as its focus.
The authors have folded in real-world development experience alongside detailed information about the IDE. The result is practical, easy-to-employ information that will make you a more productive and complete developer. This book also helps to ease your transition from other development environments and former versions of Visual Studio.
Finally, this book provides an entire section dedicated to Visual Studio Team System. It will help you understand how the Team Architect, Team Developer, Team Database Developer, and Team Tester work with the Team Foundation Server to increase team collaboration, visibility, and productivity.
Microsoft® Visual Studio 2008 Unleashed provides straight, to-the-point answers to common developer questions about the IDE.
Detailed Information on…
What’s new in Visual Studio 2008
Working with solutions, projects, editors, and designers
Writing ASP.NET applications
Writing and consuming Web Services using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Writing Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications
Creating and hosting workflow-based applications using Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)
Working with data and databases
Refactoring code
Debugging code
Automating the IDE
Writing macros, add-ins, and wizards
Using team collaboration and the Visual Studio Team System products
Managing source code changes
Tracking projects with Team Foundation Server and work items
Modeling applications
Performing unit, web, and load testing
Working with Team Foundation Build
What Others Say
Excellent Intro to the Visual Studio 2008 IDE
An excellent primer to the VS2008 IDE. Covers a vast area with a fair amount of detail, and provides excellent quality screenshots throughout. Highly recommended if you want to get up to speed with this huge IDE.
Not sure what the previous reviewer's issue was with the book, as he provided no details to justify his one star review.
Poor-poor-poor
RUBBISH. Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Unleashed is rubbish ! It is probably the worst book I ever spent good money on in my life. There are a lot of words and many pages but nearly ZERO useful information. The authors make a fine art of talking alot about nothing. USELESS RUBBISH !
If you want information about 'Visual Studio 2008' load the package and use the 'Help' button. The information under the 'Help' button is infinitely more useful than Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Unleashed.
I fear the 'garbage syndrome' that has become so prevalent in all consumer products has worked its way into the technical book field. Save your money and frustration don't waste either on this piece of rubbish.
