acknowledgments

First, I’m thankful to Manning Publications for agreeing to publish this book and to Andy Waldron, the senior acquisitions editor who commissioned the project. Without you, this book wouldn’t have happened.

Thank you to the Aspire team and the wider .NET community for building an ecosystem that’s both ambitious and pragmatic and for sharing knowledge so generously. I’m especially thankful to Glenn Condron and Maddy Montaquila from the Aspire development team at Microsoft, who agreed to speak with me and shared the biggest pain points experienced by teams adopting Aspire.

I’m also thankful to the reviewers and early readers who challenged unclear explanations, caught mistakes, and pushed the examples toward real-world usefulness: Alisson Sol, Andy Robinson, Bela Istók, Cameron Presley, David Sellen, Dennis Liabenow, Dmitrii Bychenko, Gajendra Babu Thokala, Georg Piwonka, Giorgio Vilardo, Jayakumar Jayaprakasan, Kenneth Muse, Kyle Laverty, Lars Pesch, Owain Williams, Pravin Pandey, Rajeev Reddy Vishaka, Ricardo Bánffy, Rick Beerendonk, Rob Ruetsch, Roman Fedytskyi, Ronald Goodwin, Sanjay Belaturu Krishnegowda, Soumya Pani, Steve Goodman, Sumit Bhatnagar, Varun Kumar Chowdary Gorantla, Vatroslav Stambuk, Viswanatha Swamy P K, Wayne Mather, and Werner Nindl.