There are so many people we need to thank for helping us create this manuscript. First, we would like to thank the Microsoft folks on the Developer Platform Evangelism (DPE) team, including Steve Fox, Paul Stubbs, Donovan Follette, Bruno Nowak, Chris Mayo, Roger Doherty, and Neil Hutson. They gave us our first opportunity to work with SharePoint 2010 when they hired us to write content for a SharePoint developer’s workshop back in July of 2008. We would also like to thank Wouter van Vugt, the flying Dutchman, who contributed significantly to this project with his ruthless code samples, his unorthodox presentation styles, and his timely comic relief.

There are many others at Microsoft who deserve our thanks for reviewing slides, code samples, and chapters, including Mike Ammerlann, Rob Howard, Brad Stevenson, Mike Morton, Reza Chitsaz, Chris (CJ) Johnson, Ryan Duguid, Paul Andrew, Richard Riley, Mike Gannotti, Arpan Shah, John Durant, Doug Mahugh, Mauricio Ordonez, Elisabeth Olson, Kirk Evans, Pej Javaheri, Steve Tullis, Matthew Burnett, Javier Dalzell, Harneet Sidhana, Eilene Hao, Umesh Unnikrishnan, Boris Scholl, Maxim Lukiyanov, Jie Li, Johanna White, and Jon Flanders. There are also folks on the MSDN team who helped in countless ways, including Randall Isenhour, Uma Subramanian, Beck Andros, and Jean Philippe Bagel.

We would like to thank our fellow colleagues at Critical Path Training for their valuable insight and feedback during the project, including Maurice Prather, Asif Rehmani, Matthew McDermott, Chris Predeek, and Karine Bosch. A special thanks also goes to Meredith Connell, Marshall Butler, and Maggie Smith for keeping our company afloat as the authors constantly disappeared into their SharePoint VMs for days at a time.

We would like to thank the SharePoint MVP community past and present, whose collective output has taught the industry so much about the SharePoint platform. Our special thanks goes out to Melissa Travers, April Dalke, Dan Larson, Spencer Harbar, Rob Foster, Todd (T-Bag) Baginski, Rob Bogue, Dan Holme, Ben Robb, Andrew Woodward, Reza Alirezaei, Eric Shupps, Gary Lapointe, Jan Tielens, Tony Bierman, Natalya Voskresenskaya, Carsten Keutmann, Shane Young, Darrin Bishop, Renaud Comte, Mirjam van Olst, Jeremy Sublett, Loke Kit Kai, Todd Bleeker, Sahil Malik, Bill English, Joris Poelmans, Nick Swan, Matt Ranlett, Dave McMahon, Adam Buenz, Steve Smith, Stephen Cummins, Todd Klindt, John F. Holliday, Ton Stegeman, Chandima Kulathilake, Penelope Coventry, Chris O’Brien, Tobias Zimmergren, Waldek Mastykarz, Randy Drisgill, Jeremy Thake, Liam Cleary, Ludovic Lefort, Martin Harwar, Debbie Ireland, Brendon Schwartz, Paul Schaeflein, Becky Bertram, Wictor Wilen, Heather Solomon, Dustin Miller, Cornelius J. van Dyk, Bob Fox, and even the infamous Ben “Can you believe I’m still talking” Curry.

We would also like to thank everyone on the publishing side who made this book possible. Thanks to everyone at Microsoft Press and O’Reilly. This includes Ben Ryan, who helped us put together the original contract, and the production staff made up of Dan Fauxsmith, Sumita Mukherji, Holly Bauer, and Linda Allen. Special thanks goes out to Ken Brown, who had the challenging task of getting us to ship our chapters on schedule. If not for Ken and his cattle prod, Ted would no doubt still be writing and rewriting Chapter 5 trying to get the explanation of page ghosting just a tad more clear and concise.

—Ted Pattison

So many people go into writing a book, but I’d like to specifically call out a few of them who made a significant impact in my contributions to this book. I’d first like to thank my colleagues Ted Pattison and Scot Hillier, who poured so much of their knowledge into this work. I also want to thank my wife Meredith and children Steven and Kathryn for their patience. No authoring experience can happen without the full buy-in from your family! I would also like to specifically thank Ryan Duguid and Chris Johnson at Microsoft, who shared many conversations around Enterprise Content Management and SharePoint Server 2010 over the last few years. Their insight into a lot of the “why” and reasoning behind certain decisions by the product team dramatically helped my understanding of Enterprise Content Management in SharePoint Server 2010.

—Andrew Connell