Vanessa L. Williams - Visual Studio 2005 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies

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About the Author

Vanessa L. Williams is a consultant and author specializing in Microsoft's SharePoint and .NET technologies. Through her Midwest consulting business, Vanessa Williams Business Solutions, she provides custom development, systems implementation, hosting, and training services for SharePoint, .NET, and Visual Studio Team System. She has ten years of business information systems experience spanning several industries including transportation, petroleum marketing, manufacturing, retail, and motor-sports entertainment. Her nontechnical experience-including jobs as a shipping clerk, accounting clerk, and forklift driver-gives her the unique ability to view systems implementations from an end user's perspective.

Vanessa grew up in Indianapolis, where she graduated from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management and Computer Information Systems.

Vanessa is active in the online tech community. She welcomes comments, feedback, and questions via her Web site, http://www.sharepointgrrl.com.

Dedication

To Mel and Rosie.

Author's Acknowledgments

Writing a book is a lot like developing software. There's no hotshot who does it all. A small team develops the idea, fleshes it out, and ushers it through the proposal process. Once approved, the author and a small team of editors move the manuscript through the editorial process. During the editorial process, the manuscript is developed and checked for technical accuracy and completeness. After the manuscript is complete, it moves through a production process where yet another team turns it into a physical product. A sales and marketing team works on promoting and selling the book to retail stores and other channels.

Like any good software development project, writing a book isn't a waterfall process. Many activities occur in parallel or provide feedback to other phases. It's common to revisit the proposal multiple times to clarify the book's vision or possibly modify the original idea.

I had an exceptionally good team help me move this book from idea to your hands. Katie Feltman supported my vision for this book and helped build the top-notch team to bring it to fruition. Mark Enochs, the project editor, and Becky Whitney, copy editor, were instrumental in developing the manuscript. Like good teammates, they shared their knowledge with me, and I'm a better writer because of it.

I'd also like to thank the readers of my previous book, Microsoft SharePoint 2003 For Dummies. I received hundreds of reader e-mails while writing this book. Answering those e-mails kept me hopping between SharePoint and Visual Studio, but each e-mail helped me write a better book for you.

On a personal note, I need to thank my partner, Melody, who was gracious enough to tolerate another book project. Finally, I never would've finished this book without doggy daycare. Thanks to Brigitte and her staff at the Barkalounge for wearing out my crazy puppy.

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