Acknowledgments

We couldn’t have written this book without the help of many people. We’d like to thank the following people in particular.

First, we’d like to thank members of the Microsoft Press book team for making this book possible: Danielle Bird, acquisition editor; Kathleen Atkins, project editor; Michelle Goodman, copy editor; Dail Magee Jr., technical editor; Rob Nance, electronic artist; Kerri DeVault, compositor; and Marc Young, a technical editor who read our chapters early in the project. We’d like to thank our peer reviewers: Allen Jones and Adam Freeman. We’d also like to thank the folks at Moore Literary Agency for helping to make this book possible: Mike Meehan, Claudette Moore, and Debbie McKenna.

Finally, a very significant amount of time goes into writing a book, which is time that we stole from our loved ones. Each of us would like to extend our gratitude to our loved ones, for without their full support, we wouldn’t have been able to complete this monumental task.