Acknowledgments

We’d like to thank our family, friends, and coworkers for their support and advice, for being there when we needed someone to listen to half-formed ideas, and for understanding when we said, “I’d love to, but I have to work on the book.” And none of this would have been possible without Microsoft and the support it provides to the development community.

We’d like to thank the following reviewers, who read the manuscript at various stages during development and provided invaluable feedback: Alex Lucas, Alex Tcherniakhovski, Avijit Das, Berndt Hamboeck, Dave Campbell, Fulvio Gabana, Gary Ewan Park, Jan Vinterberg, Michael Williams, Sebastian Aguilar, and Sergio Romero.

Thanks also to our technical proofreaders Tom McKearney and Gary Park, copyeditor Corbin Collins, and proofreader Melody Dolab for their careful editing of our work, which resulted in a much better book.

Finally, thanks to everyone at Manning, especially Marjan Bace, Michael Stephens, and our development editor Susan Conant, as well as our production team of Mary Piergies, Kevin Sullivan, Marija Tudor, and Janet Vail. Your guidance and support during the writing and production process were much appreciated.