Microsoft .NET-Jumpstart for Systems Administrators and Developers

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Nigel Stanley

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To Rue, for being there, again.

Acknowledgments

Writing a book can be a thankless task at times as it entails many hours of research and typing. This has inevitable effects on those closest to you and I would like to thank Rue Stanley for putting up with this for the third time.

There have been a number of colleagues involved in preparing this text, but I would like especially to thank my reviewing team of Ken England and Mark Hirst. Ken was able to bring his real-life experience of speaking to IT professionals on a daily basis and Mark has a wealth of in-depth technical knowledge on Microsoft .NET. Using feedback from them both, I hope I have tuned the book for the right IT professional audience.

I would like to thank the team at Digital Press, including Theron R. Shreve and Pam Chester, for their support of the project. In addition, a big thank you to the folks at ICS Solutions (www.ics-solutions.co.uk) who have worked so tirelessly to help Microsoft put .NET on the map in the U.K.

About the Author

Nigel Stanley is a leading expert in the field of .NET technologies and their impact on businesses. By working with many organizations across the spectrum of market sectors, he has gained a wealth of knowledge and experience, documented for the first time in this book. His other books include the two best-selling SQL Server handbooks, written with Ken England, available from Digital Press.

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