Professional Visual Studio® 2008

Acknowledgments

I was expecting that writing the second edition of this book would be relatively straightforward — a little tweak here and a bit extra there — but no, the reality was that it was again one of the most time-demanding exercises I've undertaken in recent years. I must thank my partner, Cynthia, who consistently encouraged me to "get it done," so that we can once again have a life.

I would especially like to thank everyone at Wrox who has helped me re-learn the art of technical writing — in particular, Bill Bridges, whose attention to detail has resulted in consistency throughout the book despite there being five authors contributing to the process, and Katie Mohr (whose ability to get us back on track was a life-saver), who made the whole process possible.

I have to pass on a big thank you to my co-author, David Gardner, who agreed to work with me on the second edition of this book. I doubt that I really gave an accurate representation of exactly how much work would be involved, and I really appreciated having someone of such high caliber to bounce ideas off of and share the workload. As we approached the mid-point of this book, I really appreciated a number of guest authors stepping in to help ensure we were able to meet the deadline. So a big thanks to Keyvan Nayyeri, Miguel Madero, and Joel Pobar for their respective contributions.

Lastly, I would like to thank all of my fellow Australian MVP developers and the Microsoft staff (Dave Glover and Andrew Coates particularly), ...