Act now, and you can get the Consumer Preview eBook (and all the free upgrades that come with it) for just $10. (If you order the Release Preview eBook, then it comes with a free upgrade to the final eBook.)Ĭan it get even more interesting than that? You bet! Because the price of getting in on the action increases the longer you wait. Now it gets really interesting: If you order the Consumer Preview eBook, it comes with free upgrades to the Release Preview eBook as well as the final eBook. (Perhaps he could subtitle his book The New Old Thing.)īefore the book officially releases (target date November 15), there will be two pre-release versions in eBook form, one based on the Consumer Preview of Windows 8 and one based on the Release Preview.
Petzold back to the topic of Windows progarmming, and despite his earlier claims that he has no plans to write a sixth edition of Programming Windows, it turns out that he’s writing a sixth edition of Programming Windows specifically for Windows 8. It appears that Windows 8 has brought Mr. Hey, I could still be right: Maybe he writes the books while sitting on a beach in Hawaiʻi. What has he been doing since then? My guess would have been “sitting on a beach in Hawaiʻi,” but apparently he’s been writing books on C# and Windows Forms and WPF and Silverlight. The most recent edition is Programming Windows, 5th Edition, which was published way back in 1998. The book is so old that even I used it to learn Windows programming, back when everything was 16-bit and uphill both ways. Back in the day (and perhaps still true today), Charles Petzold‘s Programming Windows was the definitive source for learning to program Windows.
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