Microsoft® .NET Kick Start

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank everyone who made this book possible and whose effort shaped this book into one as good as it could possibly be. This includes—but it is not limited to—Mike Stephens, Mark Renfrow, Todd Green, Sheila Schroeder, Candy Hall, and every else working behind the scenes at Sams Publishing. I would also like to thank technology and public media representatives of various product companies, particularly Microsoft for assisting me in getting access to the latest technologies. Also, I would like to thank Rajan Nair, my mentor, for molding me into the technologist that I am today.

On a personal front, I would like to thank my wife, Bhavini, and my two-year old daughter, Priyanka, for putting up with my late nights and ...