Deborah Kurata is cofounder of InStep Technologies Inc., a professional consulting firm that focuses on turning your business vision into reality using Microsoft .NET technologies. She has over 15 years of experience in architecting, designing and developing successful applications.


Deborah is the author of several books, including Best Kept Secrets in .NET (Apress), Doing Objects in Visual Basic 6.0 (SAMS) and Doing Web Development: Client-Side Techniques (Apress). She is on the INETA Speaker’s Bureau, is a well-known speaker at technical conferences, and is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). After a hard day of coding and taking care of her family, Deborah enjoys blowing stuff up (on her XBox of course).


Some of the information in this article was obtained from her upcoming book, Doing Objects in VB 2005.

Articles Authored

• Building a Stored Procedure Generator
• Everyday Use of Generics
• Get Ready for Visual Basic 10
• Give Your Forms a Base
• Having Fun with Code Snippets
• Inheritance 101
• Maximize Your Productivity with Project Item Templates
• Object Binding Tips and Tricks
• Overload Operators to Operate on Your Objects
• Practical Uses of Lambdas
• Retaining Multiple Sets of User Settings
• Use Generics to Create an Audit Trail
• Visualize Your Code with the Class Designer
• What You Need to Know about Web Controls