Acknowledgments

We began work on this project more than three years ago. Given that much time, you’d think we’d be more self reliant, but we could not have finished it without the help of many people.

We met and exchanged e-mail messages with dozens of developers and technical professionals at Microsoft. We extend special thanks to Julie Nowicki, Charlie Owen, Rob Franco, Sriram Subramanian, Kam Vedbrat, James Finnigan, and the prolific community of Microsoft bloggers, who answered questions and provided technical guidance for us. Thanks go also to the engineers who analyzed our bug reports and helped make sure those bugs didn’t end up in the code we’re running today.

Our partners and collaborators at Microsoft Press have earned our admiration and ...

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