Microsoft® Visual C# 2005 Unleashed

Dedication

Writing a technical book involves just as much creativity and inspiration as writing a fantasy or a science fiction novel; it’s just a different kind of inspiration. I would like to dedicate this book to my inspiration: my wonderful wife, Connie.

Regardless of where the inspiration comes from or what it produces, it’s still a highly creative process that is subject to writer’s block and fits of irritability, crankiness, defeatism, and being so absorbed in a particular topic that the world around me ceases to exist until I have conquered that topic.

It truly is a battle, “me vs. the technology.” The problem is that this battle requires a huge time investment. Somehow my wife has managed to tolerate me being in the same room but simply ...