Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

First and foremost, I'd like to thank my mother and father for their constant support and patience, through this project as well as through my life in general.

I'd like to thank Jackie Richards for her encouragement, feedback, and inquisitiveness regarding ADO.NET's feature set.

Thanks to Sam Carpenter for dragging me out for a beer, a few laughs, and some well-needed perspective throughout this process.

I'd like to thank Brad Rhodes for providing the Foreword to this book.

I'd like to thank Steve DuMosch for putting up with my occasional rants and for convincing me to get some use out of my indoor soccer shoes again.

Thanks to Steve Ellis for helping me to complete this project the right way.

Thanks to Dr. Jonathan and Stephanie Braman for that trip to the Met earlier this year and for giving my Xbox a good home for the past few months.

I'd like to thank and congratulate the Microsoft WebData and Visual Studio .NET teams for developing the most powerful set of data access technologies that we've released to date.

Finally, thanks to everyone at Microsoft Press who has played a role in getting this book onto the shelves.