Acknowledgments

I never realized the complexity or the amount of effort it takes to write a book until now, and I want to take a moment to thank family and friends who helped me throughout my journey.

I want to thank the fine people at Apress, including Jonathan Hassell, for giving me the opportunity and encouragement to write this book as the sole author. It’s been a goal of mine for a long time. I also want to thank Tom Welsh, who is not only the best editor on the planet but also an author’s “big brother,” for encouraging me through each chapter. I want to give a warm thanks to Jeff Sanders for painstakingly looking over my shoulder at the technical content of each chapter and Christine Ricketts for trying to keep me on schedule.

Finally, I want to thank the WF Team at Microsoft for the great job they did with the release of WF4.5. I personally would like to thank Jurgen Willis for making sure I had resources available from the team. Thanks to Hani Khoshdel- Nikkhoo and Dave Cliff for making themselves available to field my questions. Most of all, I want to thank Leon Welicki for taking the time for weekly calls to make sure I was headed in the right direction with my book.