ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ROD STEPHENS started out as a mathematician, but while studying at MIT, discovered how much fun programming is and has been programming professionally ever since. During his career, he has worked on an eclectic assortment of applications in such fields as telephone switching, billing, repair dispatching, tax processing, wastewater treatment, concert ticket sales, cartography, and training for professional football players.

Rod is a Microsoft Visual Basic Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and has taught introductory programming at ITT Technical Institute. He has written more than 20 books that have been translated into languages from all over the world, and more than 250 magazine articles covering C#, Visual Basic, Visual Basic for Applications, Delphi, and Java. He is currently a regular contributor to DevX (www.DevX.com).

Rod's popular VB Helper web site (www.vb-helper.com) receives several million hits per month and contains tips, tricks, and example programs for Visual Basic programmers. His C# Helper web site (www.csharphelper.com) contains similar material for C# programmers.

You can contact Rod at RodStephens@vb-helper.com or RodStephens@csharphelper.com.