About the Author
Richard Mansfieldwas the editor of COMPUTE!Magazine from 1981 to 1987.
During that time, he wrote hundreds of magazine articles and two columns.
From 1987 to 1991, he was editorial director and partner at Signal Research.
He began writing books full-time in 1991 and has written 36 computer books
since 1982. Of those, four became bestsellers: Machine Language for Beginners
(COMPUTE! Books), The Second Book of Machine Language(COMPUTE!
Books), The Visual Guide to Visual Basic(Ventana), and The Visual Basic
Power Toolkit(Ventana, coauthored by Evangelos Petroutsos). His books
combined have sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide and have been
translated into 12 languages.Richard’s recent titles include Office 2003 Application Development All-in-One
Desk Reference For Dummies, Visual Basic .NET All-in-One Desk Reference
For Dummies, Visual Basic .NET Weekend Crash Course, Visual Basic .NET
Database Programming For Dummies, Visual Basic 6 Database Programming
For Dummies (all published by Wiley), Hacker Attack(Sybex), and The Wi-Fi
Experience: Everyone’s Guide to 802.11b Wireless Networking(Pearson
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