This book has existed (in one form or another) since the first edition of C# and the .NET Platform
was published in conjunction with the release of .NET 1.0 Beta 2, circa the summer of 2001. Since
that point, I have been extremely happy and grateful to see that this text was very well received by
the press and, most important, by readers. Over the years it was nominated as a jolt Award finalist
(I lost . . . crap!) and for the 2003 Referenceware Excellence Award in the programming book category
