About the Author

Joseph D. Booth has been programming since 1981 in a variety of languages, including BASIC, Clipper, FoxPro, Delphi, Classic ASP, Visual Basic, Visual C#, and the .NET framework. He has also worked in various database platforms, including DBASE, Paradox, Oracle, and SQL Server.

He is the author of Regular Expressions Succinctly and Visual Studio Add-Ins Succinctly from Syncfusion, as well as six computer books on Clipper and FoxPro programming, Network Programming, and client/server development with Delphi. He also wrote several third-party developer tools, including CLIPWKS, which allowed the ability to programmatically create and read native Lotus and Excel spreadsheet files from Clipper applications. He is the author of Visual Studio Add-ins Succinctly from Syncfusion.

Joe has worked for a number of companies including Sperry Univac, MCI-WorldCom, Ronin, Harris Interactive, Thomas Jefferson University, People Metrics, and Investor Force. He is one of the primary authors of Results for Research (market research software), PEPSys (industrial distribution software), and a key contributor to AccuBuild (accounting software for the construction industry).

He also has a background in accounting, having worked as a controller for several years in the industrial distribution field, but his real passion is computer programming.

In his spare time, Joe is an avid tennis player and a crazy soccer player (he plays goalie). He also practices yoga and martial arts, and holds a brown belt in Judo. You can visit his website at www.joebooth-consulting.com.