December 2007
Intermediate to advanced
608 pages
13h 22m
English
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What You Need to Use This Book
To make the best use of this book, please obtain the latest release of Visual Studio 2008. Any edition will do, including the Express edition for C#.
For Chapter 16, you will want to ensure that SQL Server or SQL Server Express is installed (it is normally installed automatically with Visual Studio), and you'll want to install the (old) Northwind database that was created for SQL Server 2000, but which works fine with the latest SQL Server editions.
To run the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) example in Chapter 18, you'll need to be running Vista, or you'll need to download the .NET 3.5 runtime.
All of this is available on the Microsoft web site, at no cost. Go to http://www.microsoft.com and type "C# Express" into the search window. The first or second link should take you to the download page.
The source code for every example in this book is available through the O'Reilly site, http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527433, or through my portal site: http://www.JesseLiberty.com. Please scroll to and click on the book site, then click on Books and scroll to this book, and you should find a link to the source code.
In addition, I provide a private, free support forum for all my writing, which you can also access through the portal.
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