I'm happy to say that my first book, Programming Applications for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, should be available at bookstores in the very near future.  I received my first copies a couple of weeks ago, and they're supposed to be in the channel by the end of Feburary.  I'm really excited (as anyone would be I imagine) to have a book published.  After going through the process, I'm surprised at how much work is involved in writing a book, but also how easy the writing goes.  I suppose technical books are always easier to write than a fiction work, but it was still a lot of work to get everything together.

The book covers building solutions in managed code using Visual Studio 2005.  While the book is written mostly in C#, all of the samples from the book are available on the book website in VB.Net and C#.  We're also making some of the larger samples available using both our shared add-in template and using Visual Studio Tools 2005 for the Office System 2007 (also known as VSTO 2005 SE).

I think this is really a great guide for developing add-ins and application solutions using Outlook 2007.  The book covers everything from writing your first add-in to advanced topics like using the PropertyAcessor and creating solutions with form regions.  Randy (the co-author) and I both have put a lot of effort into this book to make it what should become the standard reference for any Outlook developer.