There are very few people in the world I would entrust the writing of a real VS.NET book to. Chris Sells is one of them. His work with GenX produced one of the most useful VS.NET add-ins and productivity tools ever made. His articles on various areas of VS.NET show a mastery of the subject: Visual Studio for Applications Provides Customized Scripting Facilities for Your .NET Project, Adding Custom Project Item Templates to VS.NET, Generative Programming: Modern Techniques to Automate Repetitive Programming Tasks, Visual Studio .NET: Managed Extensions Bring .NET CLR Support to C++. For those who work in Visual Studio.NET daily and particlarly those of us who work in the areas of extending the environment beyound documented boundaries, or to add new functionality, our picks in books are the nil pointer. The market is full of books that add nothing. They show screen shots of pulling down the New Project menu and little more. I am very happy to see Chris working on a real VS.NET book,a definitive one. I am also exteremly encouraged to see Microsoft granting Chris to allow some discussion of my particular favorite (sometimes not so favorite) area: VSIP in which I spent most of my working hours. The content looks great and I am extremly excited by this book in the works.
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