Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Core Reference
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Copyright 2006 by Dino Esposito
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Acknowledgments
A good ensemble of people made this book happen: Ben Ryan, Lynn Finnel, Kenn Scribner, Roger LeBlanc, Robert Lyon. To all of them I owe a monumental "thank you" for being so kind, patient, and accurate. They reviewed, edited, reworked, and tested all the text and code that makes up this book.
Other people contributed in various ways to improve the overall quality of the book that you hold in your hands. An unordered list of names certainly includes Jeff Prosise, Fernando Guerrero, Marius Constantinescu, Marco Bellinaso, and Steve Toub. I would especially like to thank Andrea Saltarello, who spent quite a few afternoons typing quickly on messenger to help me out with problematic examples and design patterns that were not very well understood, as well as with unknown Internet Information Server (IIS) features and common practices.
A bunch of other people helped me significantly, although perhaps unknowingly. Many of them just posted on their respective blogs, but Google was smart enough to catch their thoughtful remarks and comments and serve them to me. Thanks to Fritz Onion, Julia Lerman, Shawn Farkas, Scott Hanselman, Angel Saenz-Badillos, Bertrand LeRoy, Mike Pope, and Fredrik Normen.
Matthew Gibbs, Brad Millington, Nikhil Kothari, and Stefan Schackow on the Microsoft ASP.NET team provided significant help and contributed a lot to transform my hunches and hypotheses into correct statements. And thanks to Scott Guthrie for being so surprisingly quick with his answers in spite of the huge amount of work that he was doing to make ASP.NET a wonderful reality.
Bits and pieces of this book appeared in my monthly "Cutting Edge" column in MSDN Magazine. Writing a book is a very long process that unfolds itself in many little steps. A good chapter sometimes begins with a good article, and a good article begins with a good idea. Good ideas come more easily if there's great technology behind it. Thanks to Steve Toub, Josh Trupin, and all the great people at MSDN Magazine.
It was my greatest pleasure to work with all of you!
Dino
PS: After years of practice, my wife and kids treated this nearly 1000-page book as usual business. Nothing special, just everyday work. They know me. And how to handle me.
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