Introduction

It's not often you get to take over a franchise. Through hard work and dedication, Dan Appleman has built his Visual Basic Programmer's Guide series of API books into some of the most recognized and best selling Visual Basic books of all time. Those books are the inspiration for this one.

When Dan was approached to do a similar book for the .NET Framework, he felt he needed to pursue other directions and other titles. The paradigm shifts brought on by .NET were also causing authors and editors to rethink their titles and opportunities. .NET meant a total rewrite of nearly every title and completely different approaches. Well, as Dan moved in another direction, we were talking with Sams Publishing about doing a book on the .NET namespaces. ...

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