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Our New Book – Beginning ASP.NET MVC

Yes, that is right! In this post I’m going to write about my newest book that I’m writing with Simone Chiaretta. A few seconds ago Simone wrote about this book on his blog.

Over the past a few months Simone and I have been working on a new project that is a book about ASP.NET MVC entitled Beginning ASP.NET MVC.

As you may remember from the past, I was writing an article series about building a simple blog engine with ASP.NET MVC and LINQ on ASP Alliance and Simone started his own series on DotNetSlackers. After a while I received an email from Simone asking about my interest in writing a book on this topic because of our similarities in ASP.NET MVC.

I had written that I don’t have such a big interest in technical writing and I was (and still am) so busy with lots of stuff. But to be honest, I couldn’t reject this invitation because personally I liked it. Over the past years I have worked on three titles for Wiley/Wrox such as Professional Community Server, Professional Visual Studio Extensibility and Professional Visual Studio 2008. All these titles were about Community Server and Visual Studio but I always loved to work on an ASP.NET title. Unfortunately I was young and late to the party of initial ASP.NET impressions and couldn’t find an appropriate title to work on so this was a big opportunity.

So I joined to Simone on this thread and we started planning for the book. Our first attempt was to write a Professional series book for Wrox but Jim Minatel told us that there are three astute guys writing this book. Rob Conery, Scott Hanselman and Phil Haack are writing Professional ASP.NET 3.5 MVC for Wrox and who can disagree with the statement that three famous members of ASP.NET MVC team are not the best authors for such a title?! So far I have promoted their book more than our own book! You can just pre-order it to look at those three smiley faces!

So we looked for alterative options and after short discussions with Simone, we decided to stick with a Beginning book series. We chose this series rather than other series and working for other publishers because we thought that there are a few titles about ASP.NET MVC being written by some community leaders but they all target an intermediate ASP.NET developer not a newbie. Thus writing a book at the same level wasn’t a good idea and something that can help the community and new users. ASP.NET MVC will be an alternative choice for ASP.NET so it is worthwhile to build a complete learning process for this technology from the scratch independent from the ASP.NET web forms. So we’re going to write this book about ASP.NET MVC having beginner developers as our audience in mind and trying to clarify principles in the best form that we can.

As of release date, we still can’t announce it because it depends on the final release date of ASP.NET MVC and we’re going to finalize the book in parallel with the final release and publish the printed version. This book is going to be a 60%-40% book for Simone so you will see him as the first author on the cover. Even though Simone and I have even number of chapters but his chapters are lengthier than mine.

But we’re writing this book with a great editorial team at Wiley/Wrox. Katie Mohr, who was the Acquisitions Editor of my Professional Visual Studio Extensibility title, has the same role for Beginning ASP.NET MVC. Kelly Talbot is also our Development Editor and we have two great Technical Editors on board.

Simone could find two well-known men for technical editing of our book. Eilon Lipton, the lead developer on the ASP.NET MVC team at Microsoft, and Ivan Porto Carrero, a very well-known ASP.NET developer and presenter. I’m sure that they will improve our content quality significantly.

I’m happy for working on this book with this team. This is the first book for Simone and he is full of energy to do his best on this book. Likewise, I want to write the best content that I can because ASP.NET MVC is going to play a main role in the future of the .NET framework and .NET development and doubtlessly there will be a good demand for it.

On the other hand, most likely this will be the last title that I write for a few years. This is my fourth title at the age of 23 (close to 24) and I think that it’s enough for now. I need to work on some stuff both professionally and personally and would follow writing when I’m not here anymore! It’s been difficult to keep this progress both for myself and for Wiley and I’d like to write new titles in a better environment. I would thank Wiley for doing their best in order to resolve many issues for our communications over the past years and I hope that I can find the chance to keep writing in a different situation!

All in all, stay tuned for more details about Beginning ASP.NET MVC such as pre-order opportunity, table of contents and maybe a minor change in the name regarding the versioning of the ASP.NET MVC!

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