Visual Studio Books

by Sam Guckenheimer, Neno Loje

Learn how to engage multidisciplinary teams with this definitive guide to the application of agile development with Scrum and modern software engineering practices.

Steve Resnick, Aaron Bjork, Michael de la Maza

Focusing on both process and results, this professional guide offers a practical approach to running agile software projects using Visual Studio’s project management templates and tools.

Jeff Levinson

Demonstrates how Microsoft’s new tools can help you finally overcome long-standing communication, coordination, and management challenges.

by Patrice Pelland, Pascal Paré, and Ken Haines

Developers, we’re pleased to announce another free offering: Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: 336 pages of great information if you are thinking of moving from VS2003, VS2005, or VS2008.

Ed Blankenship, Martin Woodward, Grant Holliday, and Brian Keller

Professional Team Foundation Server 2010, written by an accomplished team of Microsoft insiders and Microsoft MVPs, provides the thorough, step-by-step instruction you need to use TFS 2010 efficiently, so you can more effectively manage and deliver software products in an enterprise.

by Mickey Gousset, Brian Keller, Ajoy Krishnamoorthy and Martin Woodward

This Wrox guide is designed as both a step-by-step guide and a reference for modeling, designing, and coordinating software development solutions at every level using Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010.

by Nick Randolph, David Gardner, Chris Anderson and Michael Minutillo

A comprehensive guide that explains how Visual Studio 2010 offers you a unique look at the beginning of the IDE's evolution: improved code navigation, annotation and extensibility with the WPF-based shell; better performance and scalability for native code; and fundamental improvements in debugging and test-driven development.

by Eric Carter, Boris Scholl, and Peter Jausovec

The essential companion to Microsoft's SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010, this book shows how to get your solution up and running fast, and then extend it to meet your precise business requirements. You'll learn how to develop, package, and deploy robust SharePoint business collaboration applications without any unnecessary complexity or overhead.

by Vincent Varallo

Aimed at enterprise developers who use Visual Studio 2008, ASP.NET, C#, and SQL Server to deliver business applications, this book focuses on implementing patterns that can be used for real-world solutions.

by Michael Halvorson

Teach yourself the fundamentals of working with Visual Basic 2008 one step at a time. With STEP BY STEP, you work at your own pace through hands-on, learn-by-doing exercises.

by John Sharp

Learn how to use the fundamental features of Visual Studio 2008 and gain a basic understanding of the latest enhancement of the Visual C# language.

by Jamie Plenderleith and Steve Bunn

Through clear explanations and real-world code samples, Visual Studio 2008 Programming reveals how to develop innovative, high-performance applications with C# and VB.NET. Learn how to deploy ADO.NET and WCF services, incorporate XML and Ajax scripts, build hack-resistant code, and much more.

by Lars Powers and Mike Snell

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.

by Indera Murphy

Topics covered include creating reports from scratch; formatting and editing; selecting records; grouping, sorting, and summarizing records; report wizards and templates; printing and exporting; formulas and functions; conditional formatting; charts; perimeter fields; and additional functionality.

by Nick Randolph and David Gardner

Offers an in-depth look at the powerful and fascinating features and techniques of the IDE, this book explores each aspect of the development life cycle from the perspective of how Visual Studio 2008 can make your life easier.

by Joachim Rossberg

Gives you the context and detailed understanding of how to use these tools to the benefit of your development team and your business.

by Jeff Levinson, David Nelson

Shows you how Team System helps project heads and developers work together more efficiently when they create enterprise level applications. It will help readers grasp the complexities of the new software and maximize its potential.

by Jamil Azher

Provides an integrated toolset for tracking work items, creating test cases, managing source code, generating builds, and constructing database schemas when using Team Foundation Server 2008.

by Rod Stephens

Provides programmers and developers of all skill levels with a comprehensive tutorial and reference to Visual Basic 2008.

by Rick Leinecker and Vanessa L. Williams

This comprehensive guide gets you up and running with Visual Studio 2008 in no time. You'll discover Microsoft's vision for Visual Studio, get familiar with the .Net environment and languages, and learn how to install, browse, and make connections with Visual Studio.

by Arlene Feldman, Maxx Daymon

The combination of WPF and Visual Studio 2008 represents the start of the next generation of Windows applications. Hand-coding XAML is fine if you're an early adopter, but to put WPF into production, you need to master the tools and application styles you'll use in your day job.

by Joel Semeniuk, Martin Danner

Assists you in using this set of life-cycle development tools for better planning, scheduling, collaboration, communication, reporting, and process control with development projects in your organization by using Visual Studio Team System.

by Tom Arnold, Dominic Hopton, Andy Leonard, Mike Frost

Offers best practices for software testing by using Visual Studio Team System test and development tools and covers all phases of the development lifecycle.

by Jean-Luc David, Mickey Gousset, Erik Gunvaldson

Helps you plan a Team System deployment, complete a software project, and everything in between. Since Team Foundation Server is so tightly interwoven with Team Suite, the authors provide you with valuable resources that cover all editions.

by Steve Shrimpton

Provides a comprehensive overview of Visual Studio 2005 Team System. You can learn how Visual Studio Team System will help you develop new functionality for large distributed systems.

by Sam Guckenheimer with Juan J. Perez

Gives you a practical, thorough introduction to Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System for developers and development managers. It will cover your needs for software architecting, development, testing, and project management -- and increase efficiency and productivity.

by Microsoft Corporation

Learn how to efficiently use Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server to help improve your team-based software development.

by James Avery (O'Reilly)

This hands-on guide is designed for developers who want to go for beyond the obvious features of visual studio. It is full of valuable tips, tools and tricks.

by Will Stott, James W. Newkirk

Covers how Visual Studio 2005 Team System improves every aspect of software development, step by step-from project planning through design and from coding through testing and deployment.

by Craig Skibo, Marc Young, Brian Johnson (Microsoft Press)

This book is for developers who want to learn a little bit more about the Visual Studio 2005 IDE and who want to extend the capabilities of that IDE with macros and add-ins.

by Richard Hundhausen

Introduces you to Visual Studio 2005 Team System and how this program will allow architects, developers, testers, and project managers to collaborate in a single, extensible development environment.