Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the publishing team for working with us on this book. Special thanks to Neil, Mark, J. Boyd, and others. Thank you for your valuable feedback, answers, and hard work on this book. Without you all, this book would not be possible.

First and foremost I would like to acknowledge the tireless work of Stephen Walther, the original author of the core material of this book for ASP.NET 3.5. Second, I would like to acknowledge Microsoft. ASP.NET 1.0 was a great start to a promising future for web developers and ASP.NET 4.0 is as robust and full-featured a web development platform as you can find today. Additionally I would like to thank all the staff at SAMS Publishing—putting together a book of this size is a Herculean effort, and they should be congratulated.

—Kevin Hoffman

First, I want to thank my wife Leanne for all her support and encouragement and for putting up with my long hours working on this book.

I want to thank Kevin Hoffman for his endless knowledge, his “wordsmithing” capabilities, and his teamwork in completing the book. I also want to thank Neil Rowe for his support and for providing us with everything we needed to make this book a reality.

For their guidance and support, I’d like to thank Mario Harik, Michael Luca, and Len Bertelli.

Last, but certainly not least, I want to thank Stephen Walther for writing the first three versions of the ASP.NET Unleashed series—an exhaustingly thorough core that makes up the foundation of this book.

—Nate Dudek