Acknowledgments
My name is on the cover, but technical books like this require a whole team to complete and publish. I’d like to thank the following:
- The various Windows and Developer Division product teams who helped with clarifying just how things work under the covers and who were open to my rather detailed questions.
- Tom McKearney, who has managed to tech review another entire book, and who has provided me with someone to blame if there are any problems with the code listings.
- My friends at Manning Publications: people like Mary Piergies, Linda Recktenwald, Elizabeth Martin, and Jeff Bleiel, who all helped ensure this book is as good as possible and written in one grammatically correct voice.
- The reviewers of the manuscript at various stages of its developent. Your feedback was much appreciated: Brian T. Young, Daniel Martin, Dave Arkell, Dave Campbell, Gordon Mackie (aka Joan Miró), Ian Randall, Krishna Chaitanya Anipindi, Paschal Leloup, Patrick Hastings, Patrick Toohey, Richard Scott-Robinson, Roland Civet, Rupert Wood, and Todd Miranda.
Unique in these thanks is my editor, Jeff Bleiel. This is the third book I’ve worked on with Jeff. He is my editorial interface with Manning and my continued mentor as an author. Jeff made a positive contribution to this book and to my writing in general.
As with my other books, I’d like to thank my mum for making sure that I knew the difference between “you’re” and “your” and that spelling always counts.