I work with Microsoft Press since 1998 and I wrote as many as 5 books for them (plus 3 more books I am working on right now). Every three months I get a check with my royalties from my US books and the translation rights for versions published elsewhere in the world, but without specifying which languages the books have been translated into.

For some reason I always forgot to ask for a list of the languages my books had been translated into, until a couple of months ago, when by acquisition editor made a search and returned this the following list. Every now and then, readers ask whether the book has been translated to their language, therefore I decided to post the information here.

Programming Microsoft Visual Basic 6 : English, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Chinese (simplified, China), Chinese (traditional, Taiwan) + local English-language version in India.

Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET: English, Italian, French, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional) + local English-language versions in China and India.

Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming in Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (with Jeffrey Richter): English, Italian, Korean, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional) + local English-language in China.

Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Version 2003: English, Italian.

Practical Guidelines and Best Practices: English, Italiano, Russian + local English-language in China.

I can't help admitting that being translated into as many as ten languages is truly thrilling.