Acknowledgments

I’d like to express my deep gratitude to the following people, without whom this book would not have been possible.

Thank you to Loretta for bringing me into this project. After two decades of working together on numerous projects, you still seem to find a way to bring freshness and excitement to each one. Thank you, Rick, for painstakingly editing every corner of this book to make it a better reading experience. Thanks to Tim for all the times you made me take a second look at my approach and for adding real value with your ideas. Thanks to Charvi for taking care of all the details that keep everything on track. Finally, thank you to all the people at Microsoft Press who worked so hard to create this book from the digital manuscript.