Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

The Microsoft Application and Consulting Engineering (ACE) Team would like to acknowledge a number of people for their help and support throughout this project. First, we want to thank our managers, Mike Adams and Tracy Shell, for trusting us to get our regular work done while we were writing this book. Next, a number of technical editors ensured the accuracy of the material presented in the book. Starting with Chapter 3, we want to thank Matt Odhner for reviewing and offering insightful feedback on the ACT material. Chapter 5 was tech-edited by Jim Pierson. Thanks go out to Fabio Yeon and Mitica Manu for tech-editing Chapter 6. We express our gratitude to Eric Rachner, Chad Dellinger, and Mitica Manu for their contributions to Chapter 7. Julius Chen and Ken Henderson reviewed Chapter 8, while Chapter 9 was reviewed by one of the patent holders of the Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA), David Guimbellot. Others involved with Chapter 9 include Perry Clarke, also a patent holder for TCA, and Chris Lawson, a fine intern who was kind enough to run the TCA verification tests. In addition, we express our gratitude to the MSN Enterprise Tools team, specifically to Jonathan Hardwick and Stathis Papaefstathiou, who contributed a great deal of time and energy to Chapter 10. We also want to acknowledge Robert Dillingham, program manager on the ACE Team, for his help with the editing process. In addition, we thank Juliana Aldous and Lynn Finnel of Microsoft Press for their patience through the writing process. Lastly, we are very grateful to Mahesh Prakriya of the .NET Framework team for helping steer the book in the right direction.