About the Author

Rod Stephens started out as a mathematician but, while studying at MIT, discovered the joys of computer algorithms and programming and he's been programming professionally ever since. During his career, he has worked on a wide variety of applications in such diverse fields as telephone switching, billing, repair dispatching, tax processing, wastewater treatment, concert ticket sales, cartography, and training for professional football players.

Rod is a Microsoft Visual Basic Most Valuable Professional (MVP), consultant and author. He has written 18 books that have been translated into half a dozen different languages, and more than 250 magazine articles, mostly about Visual Basic. Currently he is a regular contributor of C# and Visual Basic articles at DevX.com (www.devx.com).

Rod's popular VB Helper Web site www.vb-helper.com receives several million hits per month and contains thousands of pages of tips, tricks, and example code for Visual Basic programmers, as well as example code for this book.

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