To my wife Shelley, who tolerated my many absences from family life while I worked on this book and trained and consulted on other projects. I love you! Thanks to my son Austin and my daughter Taryn for being the truly awesome kids that they are! I love you both, too! Thanks to our pet Rotsky (Rottweiler/Husky) Bella, our deceased black lab Codey (RIP), and our Bearded Dragon Uri, who made their own loving and memorable contributions.

Thanks to my friend and mentor Jeffrey Richter for the many hours of assistance that he gave me with this book, and for allowing me to use the source code from Wintellect’s Windows Azure class as the basis for most of the code samples provided.

PAUL MEHNER

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