Acknowledgments

To ensure that Learning Visual Basic .NET is accurate, complete, and targeted at the needs and interests of programmers, I enlisted the help of some of the brightest people I know, including Dan Hurwitz, Seth Weiss, and Sue Lynch.

John Osborn signed me to O'Reilly, for which I will forever be in his debt. Darren Kelly, Claire Cloutier, and Tatiana Diaz helped make this book better than what I'd written. Rob Romano created a number of the illustrations and improved the others. Tim O'Reilly provided support and resources, and I'm grateful. A special thank you to Val Quercia, who added great value to this book, as she has to so many others. If this book is clear and understandable, it is due to her vigilance .