Acknowledgments
We’d like to thank everyone at Manning, especially our publisher, Marjan Bace; our acquisitions editor, Mike Stephens; and our development editor, Nermina Miller, for their continuous support and help with many aspects of the manuscript. Thanks also to the others at Manning who worked with us in different stages of the project: review editor Karen Tegtmayer, webmaster Gabriel Dobrescu, and not least of all project editor Mary Piergies. Special thanks to copy editor Tiffany Taylor, proofreader Elizabeth Martin, design editor Dottie Marsico, and typesetter Gordan Salinovic. We’d like to also acknowledge the invaluable feedback and dedication of our technical editor Joe Stagner, whose support and encouragement greatly contributed to the success of the book.
A very special thank you to Scott Guthrie of Microsoft and Bertrand Le Roy of Microsoft for writing the forewords to our book. Finally, we also thank the many reviewers of the manuscript: Irena Kennedy, Walter Myers, Darren Neimke, Eric Pascarello, Lucas Carlson, Radhakrishna M.V., Berndt Hamboeck, Kazi Manzur Rashid, Mark Mrachek, Curt Christianson, Mohammad Azam, Al Harding, Omar AL Zabir, Sonu Kapoor, Steve Marx, Dave Glover, and Abe Semaan.