Microsoft® Visual C#® 2005 Step by Step

Acknowledgments

I am utterly amazed to find myself in this position! Writing a book takes a great deal of enthusiasm, together with the encouragement and skill of a surprisingly dedicated team of people. That I was asked to produce a second edition of this book showed that I had not tried sufficiently hard enough to upset them the first time around. Asking me for a third edition smacks of real staying power on their part. I would also like to thank Jon Jagger who co-authored the first edition of the book with me, and who remains the inspiration behind many of the exercises in the early sections in this book.

As time has gone by, I have found a real sense of comradeship with the editors and technical reviewers I have worked with. I owe them so much. ...