--- title: Announcing my book: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly | daily.dev description: Maarten Balliauw announces his first book, 'ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly', published by Packt, covering ASP.NET MVC concepts, architecture, unit testing, mocking,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-my-book-asp-net-mvc-1-0-quickly-skpeprqq2 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Announcing my book: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly | daily.dev og:description: Maarten Balliauw announces his first book, 'ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly', published by Packt, covering ASP.NET MVC concepts, architecture, unit testing, mocking,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-my-book-asp-net-mvc-1-0-quickly-skpeprqq2 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/skPEPrqQ2.png og:image:alt: Announcing my book: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Announcing my book: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly **[Maarten Balliauw](https://daily.dev/sources/maartenballiauw)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Maarten Balliauw announces his first book, 'ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly', published by Packt, covering ASP.NET MVC concepts, architecture, unit testing, mocking, and AJAX with MS Ajax and jQuery. The bulk of the post is a personal retrospective on the writing process: how the idea originated from blogging and presentations, the challenge of writing in English and documenting a pre-beta product that kept changing across ASP.NET MVC previews, the review process, tools used (Word, Visual Studio 2008, Subversion, Paint.NET, MwSnap, Achievo), and roughly 100+ hours of tracked writing time. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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