Foreword by Alan Cooper
Years ago Gary Kildall, the late computer scientist and guru of operating systems and programming languages, was infamous for his documentation. It was precise, accurate, and complete, but so terse and austere that it was next to useless. But amazingly, once you had learned about his software the hard way, you could read his doc and see that the answers had always been right there, hidden in plain sight. That same “right-but-useless” style of documentation continues to plague us today, and .NET is certainly a devil's playground of three-inch-thick books packed with facts that don't help. The book you have in your hand right now is different.
When I began to use .NET as a platform, the first secret weapon I discovered was ...
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