May 13th is .NET Day at manning.com. My book (AOP in .NET) is featured as part of this Deal of the Day.

The offer also applies to:

• C# in Depth, Third Edition by Jon Skeet
• Fast ASP.NET Websites by Dean Alan Hume
• Windows Store App Development by Pete Brown
• HTML5 for .NET Developers by Jim Jackson and Ian Gilman
• Metaprogramming in .NET by Kevin Hazzard and Jason Bock
• Dependency Injection in .NET by Mark Seemann
• ASP.NET 4.0 in Practice by Daniele Bochicchio, Stefano Mostarda, and Marco De Sanctis
• F# Deep Dives by Tomas Petricek and Phillip Trelford
• And C++ Concurrency in Action by Anthony Williams

The deal will stay active for about 48 hours. (They let it run a little longer than a day to account for time zones). So get yourself some books!

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This week, there's a Manning Publishing promotion brought to you by my friends at PostSharp! This week of deals will bring you 50% off of a whole bunch of great .NET and/or AOP related books, including mine. You'll also get free excerpts from each book, so you can try before you buy.

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Does PostSharp work on Windows 8 (or more correctly, with .NET 4.5)? The short answer is: not yet.

Long answer:

I tried to get it to work, I really did. I tried using the PostSharp Silverlight assembly. I tried installing with NuGet and I tried directly from the PostSharp installer. I tried it with a fox, I tried it on a box.

I'm guessing that SharpCrafters is going to wait until Windows 8 / .NET 4.5 is more stable and closer to release before worrying about updating PostSharp. SharpCrafters is a very small company, so they probably can't afford to spend resources on updating their product to work for a framework and operating system that aren't even used by the general public yet, which is totally understandable.

Here are some technical details about why it's not working. I do think it should work fine with VS11 if you are writing a .NET 4 app, if you are already doing that for whatever reason (can you do that? I actually don't remember). I'm going to try some other AOP tools on Windows 8 and see what I come up with, just in case you desperately need AOP in your hot new Metro app. I'm guessing DynamicProxy probably works in a XAML/C# project, and any JavaScript AOP solutions would probably work in an HTML/JS project, but we'll see...

EDIT:

Chad England has confirmed in a blog post that you can get PostSharp working in VS11 with non-.NET 4.5 projects.