Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2

Acknowledgments

A special thank you to everyone on the technical review team for my book, including Rob Bagby, Andrew Conrad, Elisa Flasko, Tim Heuer, Jay Kimble, Sebastien Lambla, Gio Montrone, Jason Peron, Beatriz Stollnitz, Derik Whittaker, and Shawn Wildermuth. Each of you played an important role in fine-tuning the content in this book. An extra special thank you goes to these Silverlight warriors for their fellowship on our trek through the beta days of Silverlight 2: Adam Kinney, Tim Heuer, Shawn Wildermuth, and Jesse Liberty. Your collaboration was invaluable.

Thank you to those who read and comment on my blog, attend my conference sessions, and read my magazine articles. I considered much of your input while writing this book and added many subtopics based on your feedback.

Thanks to Jonathon Goodyear and my colleagues at ASPSOFT for encouraging me and this book. As the hours mounted, so did their support.

Thanks to Dave Doknjas and Tangible Software Solutions for providing me with their Instant VB and Instant C# software programs, which were invaluable in helping me convert small samples and full solutions for the book between C# and VB. I can’t tell you all how many hours this saved me.

Thanks to Corrina Barber of Microsoft for providing the styles used in many of the solutions. Corrina was kind enough to provide the styles and work with me on getting them converted for the book for each iteration in the beta process through the release version of Silverlight 2. Corrina is ...