What You Need to Use This Book

To get the most out of this book, you'll need either Visual Studio (with Visual Basic) or Visual Basic Express.

You'll also need some sort of database software. Best bet is either SQL Server or SQL Server Express. You can get away with using Microsoft Access in a pinch. Anything else and you're on your own.

That's all you need.

I suggest typing in the code, but you are free to download all of the examples from my web site, http://www.LibertyAssociates.com (click on Books), where you'll also find an errata (with, I hope, very few entries), a FAQ, and a link to my private support discussion group.

If you find an error that isn't already listed in the errata, please send it to me at [e-mail]. If you have a question about a topic in this book, please post it in the discussion group, under this book's folder, and make sure you tell me which edition you were reading, what page or example you were looking at, what you did, what you expected, and what you got.