Acknowledgments

First of all, I would like to thank Neil Rowe, Mark Renfrow, Anne Goebel, and all at Sams Publishing for trusting me enough to write the second edition of this book about Visual Basic. Writing books like this is hard work, not only for the author, but also for all the people involved in the reviews and in the production process. Working with these guys made the process much more pleasant. Thank you!

Very special thanks to Matthew Kleinwaks, who has been the technical editor for this book and who is a Microsoft Visual Basic MVP. Matthew did an incredible job, walking through every single word and line of code, engaging interesting technical discussions. His suggestions have been so important and made the content as accurate and interesting as possible. You can visit Matthew’s blog at http://zerosandtheone.com/. Thank you so much, Matt!

Special thanks to all the Microsoft Visual Basic Team for doing a great job; particularly I would like to give my special thanks to Lucian Wischik, Lisa Feigenbaum, Beth Massi, and Anthony D. Green for providing opportunities of continuous interactions and technical discussions. They contribute and keep the passion for Visual Basic alive around the globe.

Great thanks also to the guys from the Italian subsidiary of Microsoft: Alessandro Teglia (my MVP lead), who has a great passion for his work and for the MVP community; he did a really great job when I had some important questions related to information required for this book, quickly pointing me in the right direction. Also, special thanks to the local Development and Platform Evangelism Division (Marco Agnoli, Francesca Longoni, Francesca Marinoni, Lorenzo Barbieri, Vito Lorusso, Pietro Brambati, Mario Fontana, Gabriele Castellani, and Irina Turcu) for their continuous support and encouragement for my activities.

Thanks to Alfonso Ghiraldini and Francesco Bosticco for their cordiality.

I would like to thank my everyday friends who are always ready to encourage me even if they are not developers and will never read my books. Most importantly, these people always support me when I need their help. So my deep thanks to Roberto Bianchi, Alessandro Ardovini, Michela Santini, Leonardo Amici, Francesca Bongiorni, Paolo Leoni, Nadir Mariotti, Blerina Spahiu, Karin Meier, and Sara Gerevini. You guys really rock!

I’m a community leader and vice president in the Italian Visual Basic Tips and Tricks community (www.visual-basic.it); therefore, I would like to thank all those guys who are the right stimulus for making things better every day; all those people who visited my blogs at least once or who read even one article of mine; and all those people who visit our website and follow us on forums, videos, articles, and blogs. Special thanks to my MVP colleagues Diego Cattaruzza, Antonio Catucci, Renato Marzaro, Massimo Bonanni, Matteo Pagani, and Raffaele Rialdi for their great support and valuable suggestions. Thanks to Marco Notari for his continuous support and encouragement.