Acknowledgments

No book is written by one or two people; a huge number of folks worked behind the scenes to make this a possibility. The authors would like to thank Loretta Yates, the acquisitions editor at Sams who championed this book and this brand-new series. We'd also like to thank our development editor, Laura Norman, and our production editor, Megan Wade, who helped ensure this book was well-organized, informative, and readable. It's sometimes difficult to realize how important these editors are to a book's production, and these folks have put an incredible amount of effort into this new series. We'd also like to thank our technical editor, J. Peter Bruzzese, for taking the time to make sure we were as accurate as possible when writing about a product that wasn't itself completely finished. And finally, we'd like to thank everyone at our literary agency, Studio B, especially Neil Salkind, for all the hard work that went into making both this book and this series a reality.

Don would like to offer special thanks to Chris, for putting up with yet another lengthy writing project, and to my business partners at BrainCore.Net, Jeremy Moskowitz and Derek Melber. You guys were great at understanding my need to meet my deadlines, even if that made the company's business a little bit harder to accomplish on time. I'd also like to thank my coauthor, Mark Rouse, who did a fantastic job at balancing a job, a family, and a life to get his portion of the book done accurately, and as well-written as I've ever seen. I'd like to thank my good friend Mike Danseglio at Microsoft, who was always able to offer an explanation when something in the product didn't quite make sense at first. Finally, I'd like to offer thanks to two product groups at Microsoft: The Windows product group, of course, for continuing to produce great software that meets their customers' needs, and the product group that produced my Microsoft Office keyboard, which has now survived through an unprecedented six books.

Mark would especially like to thank his wife, Mary, for her encouragement and understanding. Thank you for enduring the long hours when it must have seemed like I disappeared. I would like to extend special thanks to our acquisitions editor, Loretta Yates, for her patience and flexibility. I would also like to thank my coauthor Don Jones for getting me involved in this project and constantly challenging me to extend my limits.