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The animal on the cover of ASP.NET in a Nutshell, Second
Edition, is a stingray. The stingray is a flat, rectangular fish with
no dorsal or anal fins that lives in shallow coastal areas around the
world. It hides itself in the sandy or silty sea bottom while feeding
on fish, crustaceans, and mollusks. The stingray is best known for its
long tail, which holds a serrated spine near the tail base. When
threatened, this spine injects a powerful, and often fatal, venom into
its victim. The venom contains proteins that can slow an animal's
respiration rate to dangerous levels. Humans are often surprised to
learn, however, that the stingray is normally gentle and
nonaggressive.

Contrary to popular belief, stingrays usually sting humans only
when stepped on by unsuspecting swimmers. When threatened in this
manner, the animal reflexively whips its tail back to defend itself.
This defense is effective against most animals, except for its main
predator, the shark.

Communities living near stingrays have valued the animal for
centuries-particularly in Polynesia, Malaysia, Central America, and
Coastal Africa, where the stingray's spine was used to create spears,
knives, and other tools. More recently, the stingray has become a
popular tourist attraction; the stingray has been a major source of
tourist income over the past decade in some island resorts in the
Caribbean. Resorts in the Cayman Islands have taken special measures
to educate humans about the stingray. Some resorts in this area even
advertise beaches where tourists can swim and play with the
animal.

Jane Ellin was the production editor and proofreader for ASP.NET
in a Nutshell, Second Edition. Derek Di Matteo, Colleen Gorman, and
Claire Cloutier provided quality control. Mary Agner and Jamie Peppard
provided production support. Julie Hawks wrote the index.

Emma Colby designed the cover of this book, based on a series
design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is a 19th-century engraving
from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Emma Colby produced the cover layout
with QuarkXPress 4.1 using Adobe's ITC Garamond font.

David Futato designed the interior layout. This book was
converted by Andrew Savikas and Joe Wizda to FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a
format conversion tool created by Erik Ray, Jason McIntosh, Neil
Walls, and Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML technologies. The text
font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed;
and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed. The
illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano
and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia FreeHand 9 and Adobe Photoshop
6. The tip and warning icons were drawn by Christopher Bing. This
colophon was written by Ann Schirmer.

The online edition of this book was created by the Safari
production group (John Chodacki, Becki Maisch, and Madeleine Newell)
using a set of Frame-to-XML conversion and cleanup tools written and
maintained by Erik Ray, Benn Salter, John Chodacki, and Jeff
Liggett.