Acknowledgements

Thank you to my wife Leticia and our children Emma and Matthew for their patience, love, and support as I spent yet more time away from them to come up with a second edition of this book. Leticia also did significant editing and proofreading and has made the book far more consistent than it otherwise would have been.

Thank you to Claire Watson for doing the beautiful cover art for both book editions.

Thank you to my mentor Mike Magruder who has read this book perhaps more than anyone. He was the technical editor of the first edition and, for the second edition, took time out of his retirement to wade back into the details of .NET.

Thank you to my beta readers who provided invaluable insight into wording, topics, typos, areas I may have missed, and so much more: Abhinav Jain, Mike Magruder, Chad Parry, Brian Rasmussen, and Matt Warren. This book is better because of them.

Thank you to Vance Morrison who read an early version of this and wrote the wonderful Foreword to this edition.

Finally, thank you to all the readers of the first edition, who with their invaluable feedback, have also helped contribute to making the second edition a better book in every way.