Visual CSharp 2005 Express Edition (2006) [eng]

Wrox’s Visual C#® 2005

Express Edition Starter Kit

F. Scott Barker

Wrox’s Visual C#® 2005

Express Edition Starter Kit

Wrox’s Visual C#® 2005

Express Edition Starter Kit

F. Scott Barker

Wrox’s Visual C#® 2005 Express Edition Starter Kit

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ISBN-13: 978-0-7645-8955-3

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Barker, F. Scott.

Wrox’s visual C# 2005 Express edition starter kit / F. Scott Barker. p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN-13: 978-0-7645-8955-3 (paper/cd-rom) ISBN-10: 0-7645-8955-5 (paper/cd-rom)

1. C# (Computer program language) 2. Microsoft Visual BASIC. 3. BASIC (Computer program language) 4. Microsoft .NET. I. Title.

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About the Author

F. Scott Barker has worked as a developer in the database field for over 16 years, and with Visual Basic, SQL Server, and Microsoft Access for the last 14 years. Scott is a Microsoft MVP and holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. Scott worked at Microsoft for two years as a member of the Microsoft Access and FoxPro teams. After leaving Microsoft, he started his own company, Applications Plus, and continued to consult for them by developing in-house tools. Scott has trained for Application Developers Training Company and throughout the United States, and is a frequent speaker at Microsoft Conferences in the United States, Canada, South Asia, and Europe. Through his classes and conferences, Scott has trained thousands of developers. Scott is a writer for a number of Microsoft Technical magazines, as well as a columnist for DotNetJunkies, and is the author of a number of books including topics such as ADO. NET, Visual Basic .NET, and InfoPath 2003.

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