Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2005 Step by Step, 3rd Edition

Acknowledgments

Over the years working on Visual Basic, I have had a lot of help from a number of people, whom I now want to thank. I first learned about Microsoft Visual Basic 1.0 (or Thunder, as it was code-named) in 1990 from Adam Rauch and Nevet Basker while working as an acquisitions editor at Microsoft Corporation. Among the early advocates of this product, I want to thank Brian Overland, Mitch Waite, Michael Young, Ross Nelson, and John Clark Craig, who converted their enthusiasm for Visual Basic into important early books about Visual Basic programming. David Rygmyr, a friend and colleague who co-authored three books with me about QuickBasic programming in the late 1980s, also deserves special mention here for helping me to understand ...