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The Book of Visual Studio .NET Review by Thad Noles
A Good, Fast Introduction to Visual Studio.NET
All-in-all, this is a useful book. I would recommend it to anyone trying to get up to speed with Visual Studio.NET quickly or anyone wanting to get an introductory feel for the scope of many things that can be accomplished with this programming environment.
The downside is that the book has quite a few errors, though most are of the typographical style. However, due to the large amount of code he presents, some occur in the code also, and it can't be executed until they are fixed. Most bugs prove no challenge to a relatively experienced programmer, but an absolute newbie might be frustrated. In a way, though, these light errors provide an opportunity to explore the debugging capabilities of VS.NET - was that the point? :)
This book also assumes you know something about the tools you'll be using outside of VS.NET like SQL Server and such.
As I said, overall a very nice introduction to VS.NET. Just don't expect it to exhaustively cover every topic. The author himself states this in the end when he says "Your next step should be to focus on each of these technologies, either by investigating MSDN further, studying books that specialize in specific technologies such as ADO.NET or ASP.NET, or simply building your own applications."
Hope this helps...