Acknowledgments

It is a great pleasure to acknowledge the efforts of many people whose names may not appear on the cover, but whose hard work, cooperation, friendship and understanding were crucial to the production of the book. Many people at Deitel & Associates, Inc. devoted long hours to this project.

• Andrew B. Goldberg is a Computer Science graduate of Amherst College. Andrew co-authored the updates to Chapters 19–22. He co-designed and co-authored the new, optional OOD/UML ATM case study. He also co-authored Appendices J and K.
• Su Zhang holds B.Sc. and a M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from McGill University. Su contributed to Chapters 26 and 27 as well as Appendix J.
• Cheryl Yaeger graduated from Boston University with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science. Cheryl co-authored the updates to Chapters 3–14.
• Barbara Deitel, Chief Financial Officer at Deitel & Associates, Inc. applied copyedits to the book.
• Abbey Deitel, President of Deitel & Associates, Inc., and an Industrial Management graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, co-authored Chapter 1.
• Christi Kelsey, a graduate of Purdue University with a degree in business and a minor in information systems, co-authored Chapter 2, the Preface and Appendix C. She also worked closely with the production team at Prentice Hall coordinating virtually every aspect of the production of the book.

We would also like to thank three participants of our Honors Internship and Co-op programs who contributed to this publication—Nick Santos, a Computer Science major at Dartmouth College; Jeffrey Peng, a Computer Science major at Cornell University and William Chen, a Computer Science major at Cornell University.

We are fortunate to have worked on this project with the talented and dedicated team of publishing professionals at Prentice Hall. We especially appreciate the extraordinary efforts of Marcia Horton, Editorial Director of Prentice Hall's Engineering and Computer Science Division. Jennifer Cappello and Dolores Mars did an extraordinary job recruiting the review team for this book and managing the review process. Francesco Santalucia and Kristine Carney did a wonderful job designing the book's cover. Vince O'Brien, Bob Engelhardt, Donna Crilly and Marta Samsel did a marvelous job managing the production of the book.

We'd like to give special thanks to Paul Vick, (Architect, Visual Basic) and author of the Microsoft Visual Basic Language Specification, Version 8.0, and Janie Schwark, Senior Business Manager, Division of Developer Marketing, both of Microsoft for their special effort in working with us on this project.

We wish to acknowledge the efforts of our reviewers. Adhering to a tight time schedule, they scrutinized the text and the programs, providing countless suggestions for improving the accuracy and completeness of the presentation.

Microsoft Reviewers

• Corneliu Barsan, Microsoft
• Dharmesh Chauhan, Microsoft
• John Chen, Microsoft
• Eric Gruber, Microsoft
• Manish Jayaswal, Microsoft
• Cameron McColl, Microsoft
• Alexandre Moura, Microsoft
• Baiju Nair, Microsoft
• Cat Rambo, Microsoft
• Thom Robbins, Microsoft
• Chris Smith, Microsoft Compiler UI Team
• Craig Vick, Microsoft

Industry Reviewers

• Harlan Brewer, SES Consulting
• Kunal Cheda, Computer Enterprises, Inc. U.S
• James Huddleston, Independent Consultant
• Terrell Hull, Independent Consultant
• Amit Kalani, TechContent Corporation
• Tysen Leckie, Edge Technologies
• John Mueller, DataCon Services

Academic Reviewers

• Karen Arlien, Bismarck State College
• Robert Benavides, Collin County CC
• Rekha Bhowmik, Winston-Salem State University
• Chadi Boudiab, Georgia Perimeter College
• Brian Larson, Modesto Junior College
• Gavin Osborne, Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology
• Warren Wiltsie, Fairleigh Dickinson University

UML Case Study Reviewers

• Scott Ambler, Ambysoft, Inc.
• Rekha Bhowmik, Winston-Salem State University
• Chadi Boudiab, Georgia Perimeter College
• Brian Cook , Zurich North America
• Sergio Davalos, University of Washington-Tacoma
• Sujay Ghuge, Verizon IT
• Manu Gupta, Patni Computer Systems
• Terrell Hull, Independent Consultant
• James Huddleston, Independent Consultant
• Jeff Jones, Route Match Software
• John Mueller, DataCon Services
• Davyd Norris, Rational/IBM
• Gavin Osborne, Saskatchewan Institute

Visual C# 2005 How to Program, 2/e was written in parallel with this book and many of the comments from the C# review team proved valuable to us in completing this book, so we wanted to acknowledge their contributions:

Microsoft Reviewers

• George Bullock, Program Manager at Microsoft, Microsoft.com Community Team
• Dharmesh Chauhan, Microsoft
• Shon Katzenberger, Microsoft
• Matteo Taveggia, Microsoft
• Matt Tavis, Microsoft

Industry Reviewers

• Alex Bondarev, Investor's Bank and Trust
• Peter Bromberg, Senior Architect Merrill Lynch and C# MVP
• Vijay Cinnakonda, TrueCommerce, Inc.
• Jay Cook, Alcon Laboratories
• Jeff Cowan, Magenic, Inc.
• Ken Cox, Independent Consultant, Writer and Developer and ASP.NET MVP
• Stochio Goutsev, Independent Consultant, writer and developer and C# MVP
• James Huddleston, Independent Consultant
• Rex Jaeschke, Independent Consultant and Editor of the C# Standard ECMA-334, 2005, produced by committee Ecma TC39/TG2.
• Saurabh Nandu, AksTech Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
• Simon North, Quintiq BV
• Mike O'Brien, State of California Employment Development Department
• José Antonio González Seco, Andalucia's Parliamient
• Devan Shepard, XMaLpha Technologies
• Pavel Tsekov, Caesar BSC
• John Varghese, UBS
• Stacey Yasenka, Software Developer at Hyland Software and C# MVP

Academic Reviewers

• Rekha Bhowmik, California Lutheran University
• Ayad Boudiab, Georgia Perimiter College
• Harlan Brewer, SES Consulting
• Sam Gill, San Francisco State University
• Gavin Osborne, Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology
• Catherine Wyman, DeVry-Phoenix

And thanks to the many other members of the Microsoft team who answered our questions throughout this process:

• Anders Hejlsburg, Technical Fellow (C#)
• Brad Abrams, Lead Program Manager (.NET Framework)
• Jim Miller, Software Architect (.NET Framework)
• Joe Duffy, Program Manager (.NET Framework)
• Joe Stegman, Lead Program Manager (Windows Forms)
• Kit George, Program Manager (.NET Framework)
• Luca Bolognese, Lead Program Manager (C#)
• Luke Hoban, Program Manager (C#)
• Mads Torgersen, Program Manager (C#)
• Peter Hallam, Software Design Engineer (C#)
• Scott Nonnenberg, Program Manager (C#)
• Shamez Rajan, Program Manager (Visual Basic)

Well, there you have it! Visual Basic is a powerful programming language that will help you write programs quickly and effectively. Visual Basic scales nicely into the realm of enterprise systems development to help organizations build their business-critical and mission-critical information systems. As you read the book, we would sincerely appreciate your comments, criticisms, corrections and suggestions for improvement. Please address all correspondence to:

deitel@deitel.com

We will respond promptly, and we will post corrections and clarifications on our Web site:

www.deitel.com

We hope you enjoy reading Visual Basic 2005 How to Program, Third Edition as much as we enjoyed writing it!

Paul J. Deitel
Dr. Harvey M. Deitel