Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio® 2010

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FIRST OFF, I WANT TO THANK AJOY, BRIAN, AND MARTIN for taking this journey with me. You have been incredible people to work with, and have truly made this a great experience. I'd like to thank everyone at Wiley and Wrox, specifically Bob Elliot and Kevin Shafer, our editors. This book could not have happened without their help and constant attention to detail. We also had some amazing people doing technical edits on this book, including Clark Sell, Peter Provost, Siddharth Bhatia, Mario Rodriguez, Justin Marks, David Williamson, and I'm sure many other names that I've overlooked. To everyone who has helped to make this book the great product that it is, I thank you. Finally, a big thank you to my family for your understanding, love, and support during the late nights and long weekends when I disappeared into my office to write.

—Mickey Gousset

THE EFFORTS OF SO MANY PEOPLE went into the realization of this book that it's hard to know where to begin. Perhaps most fundamentally is the work of the engineering team within Microsoft's developer division, who have an insatiable drive for shipping great software that helps other software development teams around the world realize their full potential. Visual Studio 2010 is an incredibly exciting release, and is the inspiration for this book. David Williamson was the primary technical reviewer for the chapters I contributed, and his thoughtful suggestions contributed greatly to the quality of this book. I also received help ...