Great news for yours truly.

Practical Guidelines and Best Practices for Visual Basic and Visual C# Developers won an Excellence Award from the Society of Technical Communication, which selects the best books, sites, and coursewares published in the year. Not just programming-related or computer-related publishing, but technical publishing in the wider sense. As a matter of fact, among the books that won the award, only about ten have to do with software. And the book I co-authored with Giuseppe Dimauro (the other Italian RD) is the only book from Microsoft Press that won the award. I guess it's something we can be quite satisfied of

It's an important acknowledgement and I am especially happy because it's the first book I wrote that isn't part of the "Programming Visual Basic" series, which now counts four editions (VB6, 2002, 2003, and 2005). The "Practical Guideline" book is a truly unique book, the first and only coherent collection of guidelines for .NET developers.