Yes, it's going to be a 2005/2008 book. However, I have both versions on my computer and for CR I don't see any differences yet. But I'll do an 'official' check when I go to their conference in May and get a chance to meet up with some people on the CR team and find out the nitty-gritty on what they did with the 2008 version.
The big thing I'll be covering is that CR 2008 has (the non-bundled version) allows runtime report modification and creation without any extra charges. So by doing a single upgrade you get the complete Report Creation API built-in. Pretty nice deal. But that added a lot of work to the book that I wasn't planning on. Ugh. But it will be good stuff and should help out a lot of people. Just this week I figured out how to use CR.NET 2005 to add javascript to every report object so you can modify it's properties on the client side. I didn't realize that this functionality was in there. It's pretty slick. I guess that the good thing about writing a book is that it forces me to explore some pretty esoteric stuff and then I get to learn cool tips and tricks. That will be in the chapter I hope to post online before tonight.
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