about the author
JULIAN TEMPLEMAN
is a professional consultant, trainer, and writer. He
has been writing code for nearly 40 years, has been using and teaching C++
for nearly 20 of those, and has been involved with .NET since its first alpha
release in 1998. He is the author or coauthor of 10 programming books, in-
cluding COM Programming with Microsoft .NET. He currently runs a training
and consultancy company in London with his wife, specializing in C++, Java
and .NET programming, and software development methods.