Robert Ian Oliver co-authored Upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (Microsoft Press 2002). He has also written numerous MSDN white papers about how to upgrade to Visual Basic .NET. Ian's real-world experience while performance tuning and stress testing Visual Basic .NET in the Visual Studio .NET Porting Laboratory has given him valuable insights into how to architect, develop, and optimize large-scale applications with Visual Basic .NET and the .NET Framework.