By day he develops custom business applications in Visual Basic for small to mediumsized
organizations. He is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD). In April 2007,
Microsoft awarded Tim with its Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for his work in supporting
and promoting Visual Basic and its community of users. Tim received his undergraduate
degree in computer science from Seattle Pacific University. You can contact him
through his web site, www.timaki.com.
nFABIO CLAUDIO FERRACCHIATI is a senior developer for Brain Force (www.brainforce.com). A prolific
writer on leading-edge technologies, he??™s contributed to more than a dozen books on .NET,
C#, Visual Basic, and ASP.NET. He??™s a .NET MCSD and lives in Milan, Italy.
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Acknowledgments
We offer a huge thank you to everyone at Apress who has had input into these pages!
Guy Fouch?© and Trey Nash
In addition, a note of my appreciation goes to the following people:
Kim Benbow and Kelly Gunther for many a well-chosen edit and making these pages look
their best.
Tim Patrick and Fabio Ferracchiati: their insights have added a great deal to this book.
Sofia Marchant for managing countless revisions and keeping us all on track.
Dominic Shakeshaft for his knowledgeable, experienced guidance throughout this edition.
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