Roger Jennings is an author and consultant specializing in Windows database applications.
He was a technical beta tester for all nine editions of Microsoft Access, SQL Server
6.5, 7.0, 2000, and 2005, every release of Visual Basic since version 2.0, as well as Windows
3.1 and all subsequent Microsoft Windows operating systems. He also was one of the
founding members of Microsoft's former Access Insiders group.
Roger's books have more than 1.25 million English copies in print and have been translated
into more than 20 languages. He is the author of Que's Special Edition Using Microsoft
Access titles for Access versions 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 95, 97 (first and second editions), 2000, 2002,
and 2003, and Platinum Edition Using Access 97. He also wrote Que's Special Edition Using
Windows NT Server 4, Special Edition Using Windows 2000 Server, Unveiling Windows 95,
Access Hot Tips, and Discover Windows 3.1 Multimedia. For Pearson Education's Sams
imprint, he has written two editions of Access Developer's Guide and three editions of
Database Developers Guide with Visual Basic. Additionally, he was the series editor for the
Roger Jennings' Database Workshop titles.
Roger is a contributing editor for the Redmond Media Group's Visual Studio Magazine and
a columnist for the group's .NETInsight newsletter. Roger co-authored with Microsoft's
Greg Nelson "A Client/Server Application: From Concept to Reality," a Tech*Ed presentation
and white paper on Access 2.0 that was featured in the Microsoft Developer Network
News. An Access 2007 version of the application described in the white paper is located in
the \SEUA12\Chaptr15 folder of the accompanying CD-ROM.
Roger has more than 25 years of computer-related experience, beginning with his work on
the Wang 700 desktop calculator/computer. He is a principal of OakLeaf Systems, a
Northern California software consulting firm, and is the author of the OakLeaf Systems
blog (http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com). His OakLeaf U.S. Code of Federal Regulations
(CFR) XML Web services demonstration project won the 2001 Microsoft .NET Best
Award for horizontal solutions. You can contact Roger at
[email protected].