It's not just the books, it's the web resources as well (possibly more importantly). One thing to think about is that if MS is serious about reaching devs like

It's not just the books, it's the web resources as well (possibly more importantly). One thing to think about is that if MS is serious about reaching devs like this. Then they need to start understanding the appeal of frameworks that we're using. The fact that I can start a rails project, edit all the code I want, and run all my tests. Without really investing in any extraneous technology (for instance an IDE or a WebServer or a large testing framework). Are all enormous bonuses. And the fact that I can do that with every modern framework I can think of speaks volumes about the weight that we as a community put on that feature. You could try to bend all the devs into the MS way of doing things with complex tools and large solutions. Or you could attempt to make tools that fit a modern developer.