April 2003
Beginner to intermediate
620 pages
21h 48m
English
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ADO.NET in a Nutshell for Visual Studio .NET is the work of many individuals. Mike Sierra of O’Reilly converted the ADO.NET namespace API references to Microsoft Help 2.0 format and added the XML tags needed to integrate their content with the Visual Studio .NET Dynamic Help system. He was assisted by Lenny Muellner and Erik Ray. Greg Dickerson and the O’Reilly Tech Support group tested each prerelease build of the software. Kipper York and Shane McRoberts of the Microsoft Help team provided invaluable technical assistance at critical moments, and Erik Promislow of Active State built the install package that makes our Help files an integral part of ...
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