Chris's Acknowledgments
I'd like to thank the following people, without whom I wouldn't have been able to write either the first or second edition of this book:
The readers. When you've got a story to tell, you've got to have someone to tell it to. I've been writing about WPF in various forums for almost four years and the readers have always pushed and encouraged me further.
My coauthor, Ian Griffiths. Ian has an extensive background in all things graphical and video-related, including technologies so deep I can't understand him half the time. This, in addition to his vast experience teaching the WPF course and writing real-world WPF applications, along with his wonderful writing style, made him the perfect coauthor on this book. I couldn't have asked for better.
Shawn Wildermuth, for the cutting-edge Silverlight appendix. Shawn's been doing a bunch of advanced Silverlight work, so when I asked him to add his knowledge to this book, he graciously agreed, completely unaware of the buzz saw that is the Griffith/Sells reviewing process. Sorry, Shawn, and thanks!
Kenny Kerr, for his most excellent Window Clippings tool. His tool, plus the features he added at my request, saved me countless hours of work and produced much higher-quality screenshots than I would've normally had the patience to capture.
Chango Valtchev and Michael Weinhardt, for their huge help on navigation and the pitfalls thereof. The material in Chapter 11 was influenced very much by Chango and Michael.
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