ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ROD STEPHENS started out as a mathematician, but while studying at MIT, he discovered how much fun programming is and he's been programming professionally ever since. During his career, he has worked on an eclectic assortment of applications in such fields as telephone switching, billing, repair dispatching, tax processing, wastewater treatment, concert ticket sales, cartography, and training for professional football players.

Rod has been a Microsoft Visual Basic Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for more than a decade and has taught introductory programming courses. He has written more than two dozen books that have been translated into languages from all over the world, and he's written more than 250 magazine articles covering Visual Basic, C#, Visual Basic for Applications, Delphi, and Java.

Rod's popular VB Helper website (www.vb-helper.com) receives several million hits per month and contains thousands of pages of tips, tricks, and example programs for Visual Basic programmers. His C# Helper website (www.csharphelper.com) contains similar material for C# programmers.

You can contact Rod at RodStephens@CSharpHelper.com or RodStephens@vb-helper.com.

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