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Book Gripe

While reading chapter 4 of the MSPress “Inside Microsoft Visual Studio.NET“ book, I ran across this paragraph:

By right-clicking on a macro in Macro Explorer, you can bring up a shortcut menu that lets you work with the macro directly.  The Run command executes the Tools.Run command on the currently selected macro.  The Rename command allows you to edit the name of the macro in place.  The change you make to the name is reflected in the method name in the Macros IDE.  The Delete command deletes the currently selected macro.  And finally, the Edit command opens the current macro in the Macros IDE.”

Now come on...who is the intended audience for this book?  I've never written a book, but I have taught several Microsoft developer classes and appreciate the difficulty of gearing content to a wide range of skill levels at one time.  But is it really necessary to go to such a low common denominator?  Surely anyone reading this book knows how to use a GUI and will understand that the delete command will delete the currently selected item. 

Nevertheless, I've skipped all around this book getting the pieces I need and other than these types of annoyances, it's a very informative book.

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