Visual Studio.net

Since our effort on Visualstudio.net is major and extensive, This topic will receive large amount of my time and development effort. Feel free to contribute and ask questions.
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Initiative at the Local Universities

I need to understand who and whic universities locally has any comprehensive initiative under.net environment. At Present I am lloking into University Manitoba and Local community Colleges. Hoever If any one ahs other information please let me know.

Book review related to MS Visual studio.net

I must admit that I am partial to wrox Press for the Programming Text. However with wrox takeover , I am not sure what is the situation with programming text. Any way, I will try to summarize all the details of the development work annd Book reviwe under this ection.

I personally try to approach a subject using top down approach. This means I start with a general book at the top level and Get down to the bottom level with laguage specific book.
Right Now i am trying to determine what should be the best top level book about the Visual studio.net technology. I think I will start Looking at the wrox and amazon for the answers.
Many times the reviews of amazon is wrong. Can we improve the review process of the programming text book. I am looking for a suggestions for this area.

Any way, I am looking for best .net starting book. Behind me ai have two bokcases full for .net technology books. So I should Get started ASAP. All suugestions on your part is welcome.

Visual Studio.net 2003 - Wrox Press-

I have selected this Book to get me started in the Journy with .net. My installtion is .net 2002. However the bok Example are for newer version with .net SDk 1.1. Howwever I have not decised to upgrade this since so far I have seen not much nage for upgrade.

The book has a section on installtion which is a nice, however as with other Wrox book the coverage is chatic.
Xilions of Books has overlapping material and in the long run I think this will be unacceptable. The Present Book is useuful from chapter 15. The explannation of .net is not perticularly clear in this text.
Also The book has no refrence to previous work and work in progress. Like many other computer text. The wrox authors belives that Detailed index and Reference are of little use. But I have a question, How Do some one connect theory with practice.

More on this later.