Programming Visual Basic 2005

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About the Authors.  Jesse Liberty is the bestselling author of Programming C#, Programming ASP.NET, Learning C#, and a dozen other books on web and object-oriented programming. He is the president of Liberty Associates, Inc., where he provides contract programming, consulting, and on-site training in ASP.NET, Visual Basic, C#, and related topics. He is a former vice president of Citibank and a former Distinguished Software Engineer and Software Architect for AT&T, Ziff Davis, Xerox, and PBS.

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