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We’re happy to announce that CLR via C#, Fourth Edition (ISBN 9780735667457) has shipped to the printer! Written by programming expert Jeffrey Richter, a longtime consultant to the Microsoft .NET Framework team, this popular title has been fully updated for the .NET Framework 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012...

We’re happy to announce that Programming with the Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit (ISBN 9780735666818) is now available for purchase! In this book, David Catuhe, a developer evangelist for Microsoft, provides valuable guidance on how to create applications with Kinect for Windows. Learn about...

We’re happy to announce that Programming with the Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit (ISBN 9780735666818) has shipped to the printer! If you are a developer who wants to learn how to add gesture and posture recognition to your applications, check out David Catuhe’s book. This guide to the Kinect...

Today we’d like to share a sampler from the recently published Software Change Management: Case Studies and Practical Advice , by Donald J. Reifer . The sampler (2.97 MB) contains two complete chapters—Chapter 6, “Industrial Case: Utility Moving to the Clouds,” and Chapter 9, “Government Case: Introducing...

Greetings. Over at InfoWorld Neil McAllister has written a review titled “Why Microsoft developers need a style guide” that describes how the Microsoft Manual of Style, Fourth Edition is a great tool for software developers. His review begins like this: “I usually get some flak from readers whenever...

Hi, this is Dino Esposito. It’s been a couple of years since Microsoft Press published Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise   (ISBN: 9780735626096; 460 pages), which I wrote with Andrea Saltarello. We also created a successful...( read more ) ...read more

Many of you know Steve McConnell’s Code Complete . It’s been one of our most popular books since the first edition was published in 1993 and after we published Steve’s update, the second edition, in 2004. We see this through Amazon reviews...( read more ) ...read more

Hello, Steve McConnell here. One of the highlights of my year is hosting Construx’s Software Executive Summit . Top executive positions are, by their nature, isolating, and most executives have little opportunity to compare notes with peers from other...( read more ) ...read more

Greetings! This post describes another of our recent Best Practices books for developers: Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises , by Roger Sessions. (The book’s ISBN is 9780735625784, and its length is a simple 208 pages.) Roger’s...( read more ) ...read more

Microsoft Press is thrilled to be working with Ken Schwaber again! Ken will be writing a third book, titled Agile Product Management, in our Best Practices series. This book will describe how to rapidly take advantage of software development opportunities...( read more ) ...read more

Everybody, in our long stream of “New book” posts since we launched our blog in January 2009, in which we describe over 130 books we’ve published in the last couple of years, we apparently missed a book: Solid Code   (ISBN: 9780735625921; 352 pages), by Donis Marshall and John Bruno. Well, better...

Greetings, software developers. We have a request today: would you be willing to give us feedback on a chapter John Fox is working on (for a book titled The Soft Side of Software Engineering )? We’ll include the chapter here, as well as a link to a Word version of the chapter (in case you’d like to comment...

Greetings. Here’s a reminder about a book in our Best Practices series for developers. Updating the classic Dynamics of Software Development (Microsoft Press, 1995), Jim McCarthy and Michele McCarthy’s new edition of Dynamics of Software Development was released in 2006, with “Don’t Flip the Bozo Bit...

Here’s a quick reminder about one of the books in our Best Practices series for developers: The Practical Guide to Defect Prevention (ISBN 9780735622531; 480 pages), by Marc McDonald, Robert Musson, and Ross Smith. This practical, hands-on guide captures, categorizes, and builds a process of...