Jesse Liberty - Programming Reactive Extensions and Linq

Programming Reactive Extensions and LINQ

Copyright 2011 by Jesse Liberty and Paul Betts

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This book is dedicated to my mother, Edythe Levine, who will not understand one word of it,
but will love it anyway.

Jesse Liberty

This book is dedicated to my wife, Ulrike Stoll, who has been and continues to be infinitely
understanding about my late nights spent hacking on the next big idea.

Paul Betts