Acknowledgments

Before I say anything else, I must give special thank to Ian Griffiths, who provided extensive technical editing and expertise and is one of the nicer and smarter guys around.

This is the fourth edition of Programming C#, and too many friends and readers have helped me improve the book to possibly name them all, but I must make special mention of Donald Xie, Dan Hurwitz, Seth Weiss, Sue Lynch, Cliff Gerald, Tom Petr, Jim Culbert, Mike Woodring, Eric Gunnerson, Rob Howard, Piet Obermeyer, Jonathan Hawkins, Peter Drayton, Brad Merrill, Ben Albahari, Susan Warren, Brian Bischof, and Kent Quirk.

John Osborn signed me to O'Reilly, for which I will forever be in his debt. Valerie Quercia, Claire Cloutier, and Tatiana Diaz did tremendous work on previous versions, and the upgrade to C# 2.0 was shepherded by Brian Jepson. Rob Romano created a number of the illustrations and improved the others. Tim O'Reilly provided support and resources, and I'm grateful.

Many readers have written to point out typos and minor errors in the first three editions. Their effort is very much appreciated, with special thanks to Peter Adams, Sol Bick, Brian Cassel, Steve Charbonneau, Ronald Chu, John Corner, Duane Corpe, Kevin Coupland, Randy Eastwood, Glen Fischer, Larry Fix, Andy Gaskall, Dave Fowler, Vojimir Golem, David Kindred, Steve Kirk, Bob Kline, Theron LaBounty, Aron Landy, Jeremy Lin, Chris Linton, Mark Melhado, Harry Martyrossian, Jason Mauss, Stephen Nelson, Harold Norris, Tim Noll, Mark Phillips, Marcus Rahilly, Paul Reed, Christian Rodriguez, David Solum, Paul Schwartzburg, Erwing Steininger, Fred Talmadge, Steve Thomson, Greg Torrance, Ted Volk, John Watson, Walt White, and Seen Sai Yang.

We've worked hard to fix all of these errors in this fourth edition. We've scoured the book to ensure that no new errors were added, and that all the code compiles and runs properly with Visual Studio 2005. That said, if you do find errors, please check the errata on my web site (http://www.LibertyAssociates.com) and if your error is new, please send me email at [e-mail].