Microsoft® Visual C#® 2008 Step by Step

Acknowledgments

An old Latin proverb says “Tempora mutantur, nos et mutantur in illis,” which roughly translates into English as “Times change, and we change with them.” This proverb has a quaint, sedate feel and was obviously penned before the Romans had heard of Microsoft, Windows, the .NET Framework, and C#; otherwise, they would have written something more like “Times change, and we run like mad trying to keep up!” When I look back over the last seven or eight years, I am absolutely flabbergasted to see how much the .NET Framework, and the C# language in particular, has evolved. I am also very thankful, because it keeps me in gainful employment, performing biannual updates on this book. I am not complaining because the .NET Framework is a ...