Beginning ASP.NET Databases using VB.NET
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Jesudas Chinnathampi (Das) Fabio Claudio Ferrachiati James Greenwood John Kauffman Brian Matsik Eric N. Mintz Jan D. Narkiewicz Kent Tegels John West Donald Xie
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About the Authors Jesudas Chinnathampi (Das) Jesudas Chinnathampi, also known as Das, has been working with Active Server Pages since 1998. Currently he is working with Silicomm Corporation, http://silicomm.com. Das is also a member of the ASPElite, a select group of developers who help to manage the discussions at ASPFriends.com. Das has been working with ASP .NET since the first Beta. Das also writes article// for ASPAlliance, http://aspalliance.com, the number one ASP.NET developer community. You can read the articles written by Das at http://aspalliance.com/das. Das has a Masters Degree in Computer Application. During leisure time, he enjoys driving, playing chess and watching games (Cricket, Basketball, Shuttle Badminton). You can reach Das at <das@aspalliance.com>. Fabio Claudio Ferracchiati Fabio Claudio Ferracchiati is a software developer and technical writer. In the early years of his ten-year career he worked with classical languages and old Microsoft tools like Visual Basic and Visual C++. After five years he decided to dedicate his attention to the Internet and related technologies. In 1998 he started a parallel career writing technical articles for Italian and international magazines. He works in Rome for CPI Progetti Spa (http://www.cpiprogetti.it) where he develops Internet/intranet solutions using Microsoft technologies. Fabio would like to thank the Wrox people who have given him the chance to write on this book, and especially Alastair for his kindness and consideration. To Danila: What are three years of love? Perhaps a long time for some; perhaps little time for others. To me, they have been so intense that they have seemed like an eternity. You have become part of me. You are the air that I breathe. Three years of pure love. Happy anniversary. I love you. James Greenwood James Greenwood is a technical architect and author based in West Yorkshire, England. He spends his days (and most of his nights) designing and implementing .NET solutions from government knowledge-management systems to mobile integration platforms, all the while waxing lyrical on the latest Microsoft technologies. His professional interests include research into distributed interfaces, the automation of application development, and human-machine convergence. When prised away from the keyboard, James can be found out and about, indulging in his other great loves - British sports cars and Egyptology. You can reach him at <jsg@altervisitor.com>. John Kauffman John Kauffman was born in Philadelphia, the son of a chemist and a nurse. John's family of six shared daily brain teasers and annual camping forays that covered most of the 50 United States. After jobs weeding strawberry patches, bussing tables, running spotlights for rock and roll concerts, touring North America with a drum and bugle corps, prematurely leaving three colleges, stuffing voles for a mammologist, packing boxes of rat poison, tarring roofs, delivering drapes in New York City, laboring in a candy factory, teaching canoeing, driving a forklift, studying tiger beetles in the Chihuahua desert, managing a picture framing factory, coaching a youth yacht racing team, and volunteering as a human guinea pig for medical research, John (to the great relief of all around him) earned a pair of degrees in the sciences from The Pennsylvania State University and appeared to settle down. He then conducted research for Hershey Foods in the genetics of the cacao tree and the molecular biology of chocolate production. Subsequently he moved to the Rockefeller University where he identified, cloned and sequenced DNA regions which control the day and night biochemical cycles of plants. But science didn't hold a candle to a woman he met in 1985 and married. Since then he has followed Liz in her career as a diplomat across four continents. They moved to Tanzania in 1986 and John began work with computers and business management in an assistance program for subsistence-level farmers. In 1990 they moved to Taiwan and then mainland China where John provided software training services to multi-national corporations and the diplomatic community in Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Sichuan. During the graduation banquet for one course he was honored by his students with a special entree of snake bile, frog skin, and turtle meats. John and Liz performed their most significant genetics experiments in 1988 and 1990 with the production of their children Sylvia and John. Growing up in Africa and China, the kids are doing well hashing through another generation's worth of brain teasers and camping trips. John continues to teach, write, and program in Asia and North America, primarily in the areas of ASP, ASP.NET, Access, SQL and Visual Basic. This book is dedicated to Sylvia and John. Nothing else in my life makes me as proud as seeing you mature into fine young people. Keep up your good work in academics, fight hard on the field of play, and continue to improve your music. Never forget that each of the people around you has feelings that deserve your respect - "No boasting when you win, no gloating when you lose. "Be leaders by being the hardest workers and offering the hand of magnanimity. And above all, avoid what is expedient and do what you know is right. Thanks for being a part of our family. Brian Matsik Brian Matsik is the President and Senior Consultant at OOCS in Charlotte, NC and is currently a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer and Microsoft Certified Trainer. His experience with Visual Basic, VBScript, and VBA goes back to the DOS days and VB 2.0. Brian currently specializes in ASP, SQL Server, ADO, and VB COM. When he is not coding, training, or writing he is either in his scuba gear or in the garage trying to turn perfectly good oak into perfectly good kindling. Brian can be reached at <brianmat@oocs.com>. Eric N. Mintz Eric Mintz is a software analyst with over 20 years' experience in a variety of technical and leadership positions. His ceaseless enthusiasm and curiosity have contributed to wide-ranging expertise, particularly in the areas of computer/human-interaction, data and object modeling, SQL, and Visual Basic. Currently, Eric is CEO of American Webware, Inc. in Atlanta where he resides with his wife and her three cats who all think he works way too hard. When he does have spare time, Eric likes to play jazz guitar and trumpet or go fly-fishing. Eric holds a BSEE, earned at the University of Houston, TX. Jan D. Narkiewicz Jan D. Narkiewicz is Chief Technical Officer at Software Pronto, Inc (<jann@softwarepronto.com>). In his spare time Jan is Academic Coordinator for the Windows curriculum at U.C. Berkeley Extension, teaches at U.C. Santa Cruz Extension and writes for ASP Today. Kent Tegels Kent Tegels is a system developer and engineer working for HDR, Inc., a leading Engineering, Architecture and Consulting Firm. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional, plus Site Builder, System Engineer (plus Internet), and Database Administrator. John West John West is a Principal Consultant at Intellinet, based out of Atlanta, Georgia. He specializes in leading Microsoft .NET application development efforts. When not working, he usually spends his time reading, hanging out with friends from church, and trying to learn to wakeboard. Donald Xie Donald Xie has 14 years experience in enterprise application development for various types of businesses. He is a co-author of Professional CDO Programming and a contributing author for a number of books. Donald currently works as a consulting system architect for the Department of Training in Western Australia, Australia. You can contact Donald at <donald@iinet.net.au>. | |||||||||||||
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