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Francesco Balena

Francesco Balena is author of the Programming Visual Basic series (four editions: VB6, VB2002, VB2003, and VB2005) published by Microsoft Press, author of Programming Visual C#: The Base Class Library, co-author of Advanced .NET Framework Programming with VB.NET (with Jeffrey Richter) and Practical Code Guidelines for VB.NET and C# Developers (with Giuseppe Dimauro). He wrote for Visual Studio Magazine, MSDN Magazine, and other technical magazines, spoke at many conferences for developers in US and Europe, and served as Microsoft Regional Director for Italy. He launched a few websites for developers - including www.vb2themax.com which later became www.dotnet2themax.com - and www.vbmigration.com, the only website entirely devoted to VB6-to-.NET migration. Francesco is co-founder of Code Architects, an Italian software company that is member of the Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP, VB Migration Partner), and is the main author of VB Migration Partner, an innovative tool for migrating VB6 apps of any size and complexity to VB.NET and C#.