Pro SQL Server 2005 Assemblies (Expert's Voice)
Robin Dewson has been hooked on programming ever since he bought his first computer, a Sinclair ZX80, in 1980. His first main application of his own was a Visual FoxPro application that could be used to run a Fantasy League system. om Visual Foxpro he realized the importance of being not only GUI aware but also database aware and he continued his development quest, working hand-in-hand with Visual Basic from version 5 through to .NET. At the same time he started working with SQL Server 6.5 through to the current SQL Server 2005. He has actively participated in several betas of SQL Server. With this cross knowledge he has seen how well these two technologies will bring great expansion of SQL Server as a database. Robin is a consultant mainly in the City of London where he has been for nearly 8 years but also has been developing a rugby related website as well as his own site at www.fat-belly.com. He is also an author and co-author of several books such as Beginning SQL Server 2000 Programming (Wrox, ISBN: 1-86100-523-7), SQL Server 2000 Stored Procedure Handbook (Wrox, ISBN: 1-86100-825-2), Visual Basic .Net Windows Services Handbook (Wrox, ISBN: 1-86100-772-8) Julian Skinner studied Germanic etymology to PhD level before joining Wrox Press as an indexer in 1998 in order to get a real job. He became a technical editor shortly after that, later working as a technical architect and commissioning editor, before moving to Apress in 2003 when Apress bought most of Wrox. He has consequently spent most of the last six years reading books about programming, focusing in particular on Microsoft technologies and, since 2000, on C# and the .NET Framework. He recently left Apress to concentrate on writing code. He contributed many sections and code samples, and often whole chapters