Acknowledgments

When I was first exposed to the .NET Framework, I was blown away. I have not had this much fun programming since I was a kid and first learned how to write “Choose Your Own Adventure” programs on my older brother's TRS-80. For that, I would like to thank Scott Taylor and the development team at GiftCertificates.com for sending me to the Microsoft PDC where I was inundated with .NET. It was the beginning of the end—my life has not been the same since. I would also like to extend a great deal of thanks to Mark Anders, Scott Guthrie, Rob Howard, and Susan Warren from the Microsoft .NET development team for all the hard work they and their team have put into making .NET such a great technology, and for providing endless amounts of ...

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