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THIS BOOK IS AN OBVIOUS COMPILATION FROM MANY AUTHORS. When putting together the idea
for this book, we thought of putting a different style of book together from the get-go. Many of the
computer books on the market today are a thorough explanation of a specifi c area of technology
tackled by one or a handful of dedicated authors. Whether the topic is C#, ASP.NET, Extensible
Markup Language (XML), or Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) development, there are
books that walk you through the topic from beginning to end. You can fi nd many of these comprehensive
references on the market today.
This book has been built not to be like that. Instead, we thought, “Let’s bring together some of the
best folks in the industry today (Microsoft MVPs and Microsoft Regional Directors) and have them
write a single chapter on the topic that they know best.”
Yes, these authors know a lot about .NET as a whole, but it came down to having them focus on the
area that they felt was their area of love and interest — the single area they know best. In total, this book
is a series of large articles put together in common areas that do indeed provide quite a bit of coverage
across the large landscape of the .NET Framework, but you can fi nd each conversation in each chapter
to be held by someone that gives you the ins-and-outs of the topic that is near and dear to their hearts.
The .NET Framework is now so large that it is outright impossible to know everything that you
have at your fi ngertips when working with it. That is also an understanding that many developers
take into the building of a development team. They focus on putting together groups of individuals
that, as a whole, bring a more holistic understanding of the power they have with the .NET
Framework as the basis of their work.
As you start to tackle your work in the various areas of the .NET Framework, hopefully you will
fi nd this book to be a resource that serves as an advisor that you need as you work through some of
the strange areas you haven’t yet spent the time to completely understand. |
