Errata Note

We accidentally left a note in the Before You Begin section of the book indicating that the book comes with a DVD containing the Visual Studio Express editions. This IS NOT the case. Sorry for any confusion and inconvenience. 

You can download the Visual Studio 2010 Express Editions from www.microsoft.com/express.

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• “Great overview of producing and consuming web services with WCF.”—Dan Crevier, Microsoft
• [Chapter 24: GUI with Windows Presentation Foundation] “This chapter is very well written. I especially liked your coverage of GUI customization and data bindings, which is very clear.”—José Antonio González Seco, Parliament of Andalusia, Spain
• [Chapter 24: GUI with Windows Presentation Foundation] “Excellent chapter! Everything is laid out right so that every required bit of knowledge is already there when needed.”—Octavio Hernandez, Microsoft C# MVP, Advanced. Bionics
• [Chapter 25: WPF Graphics and Multimedia] “An already excellent chapter that got even better! This chapter perfectly complements the previous one, and offers great examples and explanations. The new example on speech synthesis and speech recognition is very nice, and the very first I’ve seen in any C# book to date.”—Octavio Hernandez, Microsoft C# MVP, Advanced Bionics
• [Chapter 26: XML and LINQ to XML] “Excellent chapter! The presentation of LINQ to XML is fabulous!” —Octavio Hernandez, Microsoft C# MVP, Advanced Bionics

Errata

• The Before You Begin section of the book mentions a DVD bundled with the book. This book does not come with a DVD. The software is downloadable from http://www.microsoft.com/express.