Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Unleashed is a deep dive into the Visual Studio 2005 tool. Specifically, it will provide you with solid guidance and education that will allow you to squeeze the ultimate productivity and use out of the Visual Studio 2005 development environment. This book folds in real-world development experience with detailed information about the IDE to make you more productive and ease transition from other development environments (including prior versions of Visual Studio). This book will also help you increase team collaboration and project visibility with Visual Studio Team Systems and it will give you straight, to-the-point answers to common developer questions about the IDE.

Chapters include:

• Code Viewers, Explorers, and Browsers

• Refactoring Code 8

• Writing ASP .NET Applications

• Defining Standards and Practices

• Introduction to Visual Studio Team System

• Work Item Tracking 

• Unit and Load Testing

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Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 11 Ratings

No codes samples available - 2007-03-06
Reviewer Rating:
An excellent book. Lots of examples. Unfortunately, you will have to type in all the code examples yourself as the Sams Publishing web page does not have any downloads even though the back covers says that they are available.

Great breakdown on the tool for novices and professionals alike! - 2007-02-20
Reviewer Rating:
This book did a great job of revealing the breadth of features available in the product. I think this book is quite useful to not only those that are just getting started but those that are seriously considering implementing VS/TFS in the organization. Even if you are an experienced user of Visual Studio you will certainly learn several new tricks. In fact, I reference this book with my clients who are interested in rolling out VS and TFS.

Not what I'd hoped for - 2008-07-19
Reviewer Rating:
I started a new job a while back and found myself using VS2005 for the first time after years of using VS6. I was looking for a book to get me up to speed, and there are few titles out there.

While this book had some useful info I found that it wasn't terribly useful for a programmer writing C++ in a non-.NET environment. Most of the coding examples are in other languages and mainly targeted towards .NET.

If you're working in that environment you may find this more useful than I did.

Not For Beginners - 2009-02-12
Reviewer Rating:
In all fairness to the writer/publisher I did not ompletely read this book. I am new to VS2005 having taught myself VB since Version 3. VS2005, in my opinion is a whole new species of programming. This book is not for the beginner with VS2005. This book tells you where the various features, wizards, helpers and the like are thoughout VS2005. Doesn't give much info on how to program with VS2005.

I recommend "Start-To-Finish Visual Basic 2005" by Tim Patrick for the beginner VB2005.NET.

Tons of information - 2008-09-16
Reviewer Rating:
There should be a class taught on Visual Studio by itself. This book is excellent. Highly recommend if having trouble learning Visual Studio.

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