visual studio 2010 books

dokko · 22 Jan 2010 at 16:48

I've just got a copy of 2010 and looks right up my street but with it being new i guess reading materials are a bit thin at the moment, does anyone know of any books that might be of use to me? Possibly even for older versions that would carry the theory across.

Cheers.

djkav · 22 Jan 2010 at 18:30

Isn't 2010 still in alpha/beta stages?

dokko · 22 Jan 2010 at 19:48

djkav said:
Isn't 2010 still in alpha/beta stages?

I got it from uni via free download, i think so.

I've reserved a 2008 beginners book, guess that will have to do for n ow.

HumbleCoder · 22 Jan 2010 at 21:58

It is still a beta (although the RC is due very soon) and I don't know of any current books but they're some to preorder to Amazon. What do you want a book on VS itself or the languages?

dokko · 23 Jan 2010 at 12:02

HumbleCoder said:
It is still a beta (although the RC is due very soon) and I don't know of any current books but they're some to preorder to Amazon. What do you want a book on VS itself or the languages?

The studio, getting to know it and what it can do.

I've used MM Dreamweaver, phpedit, VB, and it doesn't look too dissimilar but i want to know how to create a questionnaire linked to a DB and the DB linked to a GUI selecting from the DB while creating the website it sits in.

ringo747 · 23 Jan 2010 at 15:06

I think your best bet is to go on MSDN to the Visual Studio 2010 pages. Doubt that any documentation will be out for a while.

Have downloaded it but not installed yet. In the process of building some VMs for SharePoint 2010 and will be using VS2010 with that eventually.

jamief · 27 Jan 2010 at 12:08

You ideally want a book on the languages, the studio itself doesn't "do anything" as such, it is a tool to help you code.

Start by learning the languages (C# ideally) and you'll soon pick up how the IDE works.