In the fall of 2000, Marc Young and I (Brian Johnson) attended an event that introduced Microsoft Visual Studio .NET to computer writers and editors from around the world. We were both amazed to see how easy it was going to be to create Windows and Web applications using this tool in the context of the .NET Framework. As I watched the demonstrations, it became pretty clear to me that this new tool deserved a book of its own. I took a few notes and jotted down an outline for the book I had in mind. At the top of my outline, I wrote Inside Visual Studio .NET. About a year later, I was still toying with the idea of writing this book, but other commitments were keeping me busy enough that I kept putting it off. One day, Marc asked me if I would be interested in doing some writing and I showed him the material I had put together for Inside Visual Studio .NET. I told him I was interested in writing about the Visual Studio .NET automation object model, about the IDE, and about the macros facility. Marc took this information and spent nearly every night for three or four months writing add-ins and getting to know the internal workings of the IDE. In the spring of 2002, we took a proposal to our acquisitions editor, Danielle Bird Voeller, who got us in touch with a few people on the Visual Studio .NET team. The first person she introduced us to was Bill Chiles, a program manager responsible for many of the features that we were planning to write about.Meeting Bill Chiles was probably the best thing that could have happened to us because he in turn introduced us to Craig Skibo. Craig is the developer who wrote most of the automation API that we cover in the book. Craig offered to help us out with the book as best he could. At some point in our early conversations with Craig, he told us that he was also working on a book about the automation object model. In fact, he had already written four chapters but wasn't sure he was ever going to have time to finish a book. We read through Craig's chapters and found that they were exactly what we were looking for and asked him if he would be willing to become a coauthor with us on Inside Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003. He agreed, and Marc and I couldn't have been more pleased. What you're reading now is the result of a very close collaboration between Craig, Marc, and me. What we wanted to produce was a book that would help developers to use Visual Studio .NET 2003 more effectively, to customize and extend the IDE, and finally, to see the tremendous productivity gains that they can expect by moving their development efforts to Visual Studio .NET 2003 and the .NET Framework.
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