This book was made possible by a wonderful network of people at Digital Press. Of these people I would like to personally thank Pam Chester and Theron Shreve, without whom this book would have never been published. I would also like to thank Alan Rose and all at Multiscience Press for their efforts in getting this book into print.

I am extremely grateful to the assistance of my technical reviewer, David Stephenson at HP. His technical expertise improved the code examples in this book one hundred fold. A big thank you goes out to all those at Microsoft who offered their assistance in the writing of this book, especially Christopher Brown and Lance Olson.

I would like to also like to say thanks to everybody at eyespyfx.com for their help and support and also to the guys at cheapflights.ie for their expertise and sense of humor. Above all else, I would like to thank my parents for being so supportive of me for the past twenty-three years.