Professional Enterprise .NET

Acknowledgments

I owe a lot of thanks to many people for helping to make this book a reality. Thanks to Ed Connor and Jim Minatel for their patience and understanding during a very busy time in my career. Huge thanks to my coauthor, Scott, for understanding my vision and helping to bring it to life. If you ever make it to Philly I'll have to show you how we roll on this side of the Pond! Thanks also to Vince, Sandra, John, and Ed at the Jug Handle Inn, who let a guy write a book at the bar on late Saturday nights. A special note of gratitude to my lovely mother, whose nagging and drama always kept me on course, and to my father who clearly helped shape me into the cantankerous, overbearing geek/meathead I am today. Most of all, thanks to my wife Andrea, and my children, Emma and Jake, who once again proved that their patience for me has no bounds!

—Jon Arking

First thanks to Jim Minatel at Wiley for giving me the opportunity of writing for Wrox and suggesting me to Jon. Thanks to Jon for the chance to get involved on such a great project and for all the help, support and guidance during the writing process. The next time you're in England I will take you on a good old fashioned pub crawl! Thank you to Doug Parsons, the technical editor, for all of his hard work and a big thanks to Ed Connor who had the unenviable task, as the book's Project Editor, to keep myself and Jon on track — thank you for all of your help. Finally special thanks to Lynsey, my beautiful wife to be for all the ...