Acknowledgments

I would first like to thank my wife, Susan, and my children, Zo and Sam, who supported me without hesitation during the writing of this book. Thanks also to my parents, Pat and Dan Onion, for their support and direction.

Thanks to all my colleagues at DevelopMentor for the many discussions and constant feedback both for the course and for this book. In particular, thanks to Bob Beauchemin for his always timely and useful feedback; Keith Brown, for showing me how to salt my hashes and otherwise reinforcing my security chapter; Simon Horrell, for his detailed feedback; Dan Sullivan, for leaving no stone unturned; Ted Pattison, for commiserating on writing and for his always positive comments; Stu Halloway, for making my writing more concise ; and Mike Woodring, for thinking through the threading implications of asynchronous handlers with me.

Thanks to my official reviewers, Justin Burtch, Amit Kalani, Daryl Richter, Martin Heller, and Matt Milner, all of whom provided invaluable feedback. Thanks to the members of the ASP.NET team at Microsoft for building such an interesting product and for fielding many questions. In particular, thanks to Rob Howard for his input on caching and to Erik Olson for explaining thread allocation and pooling in the pipeline. Thanks to Don Box for introducing me to ASP.NET and for getting my writing career started at C++ Report back in 1995.

Thanks to my editor, Stephane Thomas, for all her hard work, and to my copy editor, Debby English, who more than lives up to her last name . Much gratitude also to the more than 1,000 students who have taken the Essential ASP.NET course ”your input has shaped the stories in this book more than anything else. Thanks in particular to the students at the Essential ASP.NET course offered in Washington, D.C., in October 2002 for helping choose the color of the book covers.

Fritz  Onion
Wells,  Maine
October  2002
http://staff.develop.com/onion/