Hi Pamela,

In addition to Tracy's suggestion, I've read about 5 books on .Net, and none of them had very good overviews of the IDE. One book, however, really improved my understanding of the IDE, and that's ADO.Net Step by Step from Microsoft Press. As the name suggests, the book takes you through ADO step by step, and actually has you writing code. It gave me the most practical introduction to the Toolbox, the Server Explorer, and the debugger just from doing. It does talk a little about the IDE from an ADO.Net perspective, which is helpful, but most of the benefit I got was from doing.

Also, though it's not the greatest book (though it's better than most .Net books I've read), it's very quick to go through the excercises and get a nice grasp of ADO.Net.

I think one problem is that there just aren't a lot of good .Net books out there. As Rebecca Riordan, the author says, "we're all beginners now". It shows in the selection!

>Is there any book out there covering the .NET IDE specifically? I just spent 20 minutes or so browsing Amazon and almost every book has a comment "If you expecting coverage of the IDE, this is not the book." So what is "the book"
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>pamela