This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.

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

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 5 Ratings

Excellent Intro to the Visual Studio 2008 IDE - 2008-12-23
Reviewer Rating:
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 - 2008-10-31
Reviewer Rating:
RUBBISH. This book 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 this book.

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.

Very Good Book - 2009-05-21
Reviewer Rating:
Gimme a break... Not sure what the 1 star rating is all about, but I found this book to be very helpful in getting me up and running in the Visual Studio 2008 environment. This book has a lot of information and is a great resource, so if you need an excellent reference manual this is it.

I highly recommend this book for those who feel overwhelmed with Visual Studio 2008.

Great how to, not a step by step however - 2009-05-18
Reviewer Rating:
When used as a resource this is a fine book. Do not think it is a good step-by-step manual however. Many assumptions are made as to your familiarity with the sections of Visual Studio. The need for a CD with examples is apparent after working with this book.

Review from Paresh - 2009-09-11
Reviewer Rating:
To start with, I think there are a myriad of sources with bits and pieces of the information you need about Visual Studio 2008 and its features, and I feel Mike and Lars have done a commendable job in pulling them all together in one comprehensible written book. Every chapter of this book is well documented with clear, incisive examples and screenshots and overall this book takes you leaps and bounds into an advanced level of knowledge.

This book has helped my overall productivity a great deal. Kudos to Mike and Lars for producing such a great resource for programmers like me. And last but not the least this book quite simply in my humble opinion, is a "must have" for anybody who wants to use Visual Studio more effectively.

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