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I can finally announce the book I have been working on for so long. The book is called Visual Studio Hacks and is being published by O'Reilly. You are probably familiar with the hacks series of books by now, but if not they are a collection of 100 different tips, tricks, or tools. For this book that includes everything from how to get the most out of Intellisense to identifying various add-ins that enrich the Visual Studio experience. The book can already be pre-ordered on Amazon, but it wont be out for a couple months. (Amazon say end of Feb, but my bet is March)

O'Reilly doesn't have it listed on their site yet, but it should be coming soon.

I could have gone a couple different directions with this book. I could have focused completely on writing add-ins, macros, and extending Visual Studio. I didn't do that. I could have made it a "learning" kind of book where I had basic tips like "Creating a Web Service"... I didn't do that either. I decided to write a book for 80% of the developers who use Visual Studio. This book is for the everyday developer who already knows how to use Visual Studio, but wants to learn about tips and tools that can help them in their everyday development tasks. I do cover how to create add-ins and macros, but that is not the focus of the book. (As there are already books focused on just that)

I am pretty proud of this book, I think it turned out even better than I had hoped. I am going to be blogging more about it as sample hacks become available online and closer towards publication. I worked alot with folks from Microsoft, and plan about blogging about that too. (Josh Ledgard is the man)

Contributors

One of the biggest surprises for me while writing this book was the incredible number of great developers and writers who agreed to contribute hacks to this book. Here is a quick list of everyone who contributed to this book:

Jamie Cansdale
Jayme Davis
Steven Dewalt
Dave Donaldson
Scott Mitchell
Darrell Norton
Chris Nurse
Alex Papadimoulis
Brian Sherwin
Ben Von Handorf
Roland Weigelt
Mike Wood

I am working on a companion site for the book which will include new hacks, as well as new tools and downloads, which I hope to have done in the next month or so.

-James