Shared Source CLI Essentials

Acknowledgments

David Stutz

This is my first attempt at a book. Thanks to my wife Beth, who bemusedly watched from her experienced vantage without making too many sarcastic comments, and to those who showed me the details, especially our editors Brian Jepson and John Osborn. I also thank Brian, Geoff, John, and Ted for their patience during occasional personal lacunae induced by two of the truly important things in life: winemaking and music-making.

Special thanks go to those who spent so much effort commenting on drafts, including Jan Kotas, John Norwood, Vladimir Fedorov, Eric Albert, and the rest of the Rotor team: Geoff, Barry, Mario, Stephe, and Pankaj. Jan, Vlad, and Barry kept me from telling outright technical lies (although I’m sure that I’ve slipped a few by them), and John’s detailed review comments were invaluable.

Many of the implementers of Microsoft’s .NET Framework also helped with the task of reviewing the text, including Jim Miller, Chris Brumme, Patrick Dussud, Ian Carmichael, Alan Shi, and George Bosworth. For both reviewing this book, and for transforming our original COM runtime proposal into today’s CLI, thanks!

Microsoft Research provided much help in getting the word out about Rotor. In particular, the Cambridge research lab, run by Roger Needham with the help of his crack University Relations group of Pierre-Yves Saintoyant, Van Eden, and Bruno Quarta, along with Greg O’Shea, were indispensable. Just as important were reviewers and agitators external to Microsoft, ...