Acknowledgments

A special thank you to everyone on the technical review team for my book, including Rob Bagby, Andrew Conrad, Elisa Flasko, Tim Heuer, Jay Kimble, Sebastien Lambla, Gio Montrone, Jason Peron, Beatriz Stollnitz, Derik Whittaker, and Shawn Wildermuth. Each of you played an important role in fine-tuning the content in this book. An extra special thank you goes to these Silverlight warriors for their fellowship on our trek through the beta days of Silverlight 2: Adam Kinney, Tim Heuer, Shawn Wildermuth, and Jesse Liberty. Your collaboration was invaluable.

Thank you to those who read and comment on my blog, attend my conference sessions, and read my magazine articles. I considered much of your input while writing this book and added many subtopics based on your feedback.

Thanks to Jonathon Goodyear and my colleagues at ASPSOFT for encouraging me and this book. As the hours mounted, so did their support.

Thanks to Dave Doknjas and Tangible Software Solutions for providing me with their Instant VB and Instant C# software programs, which were invaluable in helping me convert small samples and full solutions for the book between C# and VB. I can’t tell you all how many hours this saved me.

Thanks to Corrina Barber of Microsoft for providing the styles used in many of the solutions. Corrina was kind enough to provide the styles and work with me on getting them converted for the book for each iteration in the beta process through the release version of Silverlight 2. Corrina is a designer with a strong desire to create compelling applications that offer significant utility, usability, and beauty. Her current passion is Silverlight and it certainly shows in the work she has done.

Thanks to the great people at O’Reilly Media—including Laurel Ruma, Laurel Ackerman, Rachel Monaghan, Marsee Henon, Anna Freeman, Audrey Doyle, Sumita Mukherji, Nancy Kotary, Ellen Troutman, Karen Montgomery, David Futato, Rob Romano, Maria Amodio, and Marcia Friedman—for helping to get this book out of the nooks of my mind, into the bookstores, and ultimately into the hands of the readers. Thanks especially to John Osborn, my editor, for guiding me through the process, and most importantly, for believing that this book had an important story to tell.

Thanks to all the members of my family for supporting me the way families do. I am blessed to count you all as part of my family: Dad, Mom, Julie, Sandy, Laurie, Debbie, Scott, Jeff, Jack, Terry, John, James, Aly, Zach, Alyssa, Julia, Sean, Kyle, Jenna, Jessica, Danielle, Donna, Jim, Matt, Suzanne, Jeff, Nancy, Kevin, Denise, Anna, Ben, Alicia, Brittini, and of course, Kadi.

Most importantly, an enormous thank you to my family. Colleen—thank you for sharing your heart with me. You are my soul mate, my best friend, my love. Landon—I can’t wait to walk, run, and fall through this world with you. Tackle life head on. Ella—you have a never-ending supply of hugs, high fives, and kisses for everyone. Daddy’s littlest princess has a huge heart. Madelyn—you share so much love and caring from your heart—I am so proud of you, my rock star. Haley—your kindness is legendary—you are truly an angel amongst us. This book is dedicated to you all. Watching movies, special one-on-one days out, game nights, cuddling on the couch, holding hands, and hop on pop were never so good!

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