About the Author

Roger Jennings is an author and consultant specializing in Microsoft .NET n-tier and client/server database applications and data-intensive Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Web services. He's been a beta tester for all versions of Visual Basic and Visual Studio, starting with the Professional Extensions for Visual Basic 2.0 (code named Rawhide).

More than 1.25 million copies of Roger's 25 computer-oriented books are in print, and they have been translated into more than 20 languages. He's the author of Expert One-on-One Visual Basic 2005 Database Programming for Wiley/WROX, three editions of Database Developer's Guide to Visual Basic (SAMS Publishing), two editions of Access Developer's Guide (SAMS), 11 editions of Special Edition Using Microsoft Access (QUE Publishing), and two editions of Special Edition Using Windows NT 4.0 Server (QUE). He's also written developer-oriented books about Windows 3.1 multimedia, Windows 95, Windows 2000 Server, Active Directory Group Policy, Visual Basic Web services, and Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 SP-1. Roger has been a contributing editor of Redmond Media Group's Visual Studio Magazine and its predecessor, Visual Basic Programmer's Journal for almost 15 years. His articles also appear in Redmond Magazine and he writes "TechBriefs" and cover stories for Redmond Developer News.

Roger has more than 30 years of computer-related experience, beginning with real-time medial data acquisition and chemical process control systems ...

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