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Dear Reader,
The first edition of this book was released at the 2001 Tech·Ed conference in
Atlanta, Georgia. (I honestly can’t believe it was that long ago!) Since that time,
this text has been revised, tweaked, and enhanced to account for the changes
found within each release of the .NET platform (1.1, 2.0, 3.0, and now 3.5).
.NET 3.0 was more of an augmentative release, essentially providing three new
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Andrew Troelsen
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