Introduction
This book has existed, in one form or another, since the first release of C# and the .NET Platform was published in step with Microsoft's release of .NET 1.0 Beta 2 (circa the summer of 2001). Since that point, I have been extremely happy to see that this text continues to be very well received by the press. Over the years, it was nominated as a 2002 Jolt Award finalist (I lost, but hey, life goes on); it was also awarded the 2003 Referenceware Excellence Award for programming book of the year.
More importantly, I have been very grateful to receive e-mails from readers all around the world. It is very cool to chat with so many people who have told me this book has helped their careers in some small way. On a related note, I have ...
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