It only happens to me or everyone else has the problem with the format of the names displayed on the list box?
I understand that the nchar(35) means to the database that, no matter what you enter, it will return 35 chars anyway, so it fills out the strings with blank spaces. As result, my DisplayName looks terrible.

I know a couple of gizmos that could be defined at the Person class properties to get rid of the extra blanks, but I was hoping there is a more direct and less painful way to do it.

Any ideas for this??

Again, I am answering to myself on this one.
It looks like the author forgot to add the ToText.Trim functions on the DisplayName property of the Person class.
If instead of

Return FirstName + " " + LastName you type

Return FirstName.ToString.Trim + " " + LastName.ToString.Trim

everything works as displayed on figure 7-8.

So if you got lost on this one as well, you're not alone.