I'd like to thank my wife, Adelia, and my son, Alessandro, because sometimes they don't understand very well why I spend so much time on technology and software, but they still love and support me in everything I do. I love you too. I'd like to thank my parents because a solid house needs firm foundations.

I also want to thank everyone at UGIDotNET, the biggest Italian Microsoft .NET user group, in particular Andrea Saltarello: you are an awesome developer and a remarkable friend. Isaac Newton once said: "If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."

Finally, I'd like to thank everyone involved in the production of this book, especially all my editors at Packt Publishing: Subho Gupta, Arun Nadar, and Tanvi Bhatt. Also, I really want to thank my reviewers for every suggestion that made this book better. This is my first effort on a real book, in a language that is not my mother tongue, and they held my hands from the beginning of this journey.