Thank you to the folks at Microsoft who were willing to answer my incessant questions, even in the midst of having to meet their own delivery deadlines. This list of top-notch people includes Brad Abrams, Alan Carter, Kit George, Scott Guthrie, Jim Hogg, Rob Howard, and Susan Warren. Several of these people also read major portions of the manuscript and offered constructive comments.
Thank you to my coworkers at Tara Software, Inc., for letting me use them as sounding boards and for assisting with technical issues. This includes Dan Boardman, Kevin Caswick, Varon Fugman, Anson Goldade, Karl Hauth, Garrett Peterson, Dan Phelps, Scott Rassbach, and Adam Steinert.
Thank you to Tara Software, Inc., and particularly to its principals, Roger Mills, Lynne Pilsner, and Larry Kleopping, for supporting this project (emotionally and financially).
Thank you to O’Reilly & Associates, Inc. for letting me write the book that I felt needed to be written. Thanks in particular to my editor, Ron Petrusha, who always knows what to mess with and what to leave alone. Thanks also to Budi Kurniawan for graciously granting me permission to use material that he had written on Windows controls.
And finally, thank you to my friend and wife, Annemarie Newman. Annemarie, you’ve supported all my endeavors—from shareware with lots of downloads and zero payments to books that take longer to write than they should. Thank you. I think you should start filling out that graduate school application, angel. It’s your turn.
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