Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank the Visual Basic .NET and .NET Framework teams for creating such an awesome product for us to write about; our co-workers at Microsoft who helped resolve numerous issues; the team at ArtinSoft S.A. in Costa Rica for all their hard work and dedication in creating a world-class upgrade tool; Ari Bixhorn and the Visual Basic .NET product managers, who through their boundless energy helped us to see that there are no problems, only unfulfilled opportunities; Rob Copeland, Mike Blaylock, and Rick Nasci for agreeing to let us use our personal time to write this book; Danielle Bird, Barbara Moreland, Rebecca Pepper, Marzena Makuta, and Marc Young at Microsoft Press; and our friends and families, who supported us through the nights and long weekends we spent researching and writing.