Wrox''''s Visual C# 2005 Express Edition Starter Kit pot

Wrox’s Visual C#® 2005

Express Edition Starter Kit

F. Scott Barker

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Wrox’s Visual C#® 2005

Express Edition Starter Kit

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Wrox’s Visual C#® 2005

Express Edition Starter Kit

F. Scott Barker

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Wrox’s Visual C#® 2005 Express Edition Starter Kit

Published by

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Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana

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About the Author

F. Scott Barker has worked as a developer in the database field for over 16 years, and with Visual Basic,

SQL Server, and Microsoft Access for the last 14 years. Scott is a Microsoft MVP and holds a Bachelor of

Science in Computer Science. Scott worked at Microsoft for two years as a member of the Microsoft

Access and FoxPro teams. After leaving Microsoft, he started his own company, Applications Plus, and

continued to consult for them by developing in-house tools. Scott has trained for Application Developers

Training Company and throughout the United States, and is a frequent speaker at Microsoft Conferences

in the United States, Canada, South Asia, and Europe. Through his classes and conferences, Scott has

trained thousands of developers. Scott is a writer for a number of Microsoft Technical magazines, as well

as a columnist for DotNetJunkies, and is the author of a number of books including topics such as ADO.

NET, Visual Basic .NET, and InfoPath 2003.

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Credits

Acquisitions Editor

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Acknowledgements

Anytime you create a book that is shipping day and date with a product such as this one did, the project

is much more complicated because of dealing with beta product right up until the end. There are a num￾ber of people I want to thank who have been working hard with me on this book for Wrox, including the

following people who are at Wrox: Katie Mohr, who is the nicest acquisition editor (sorry Jim) there is.

She can nag you about a deadline, and you thank her. Howard Jones, a great development editor who

would put up with my late night submissions, and still made me look good. Felicia Robinson, the pro￾duction editor who came in late in the process when we were short on patience, and made things easy

for us.

I also want to thank Karli Watson, for taking the time to tech edit my book when I know he is busy with

so much of his own work. I am honored to have you work on this book Karli.

Many thanks to Dan Fernandez, who is on the Microsoft C# Express team and Suzanna Moran, my MVP

lead at Microsoft, for answering my many questions and making sure I had what I need to get this book

done. Dan, you have a great amount of patience, and Suzanna, you rock when it comes to getting me

connected with the right people.

As usual, my family has put up with me writing yet another book: Chris 17, Kari Anne 15, Nichole 12,

David 10, Joseph 4, and my awesome wife Diana.

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Dedication

To my beautiful and brilliant wife and friend, Diana. Besides being a strong woman of God who also

demonstrates her belief in me every day, I can’t think of anyone I would rather have by my side for the

rest of my life, to guide my kids, and share many beautiful sunsets with.

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