Professional C# (Beta 2 Edition)

Simon Robinson first encountered serious programming when he was doing his PhD in physics, modeling all sorts of weird things to do with superconductors and quantum mechanics. His programming work eventually lead him into writing, and he now makes a living mostly from writing great books for programmers. He is a great enthusiast for C#, which he firmly believes is set to revolutionize programming.

Burton Harvey builds software that elegantly fulfills users' needs. An MCSD with fifteen years' experience using Microsoft development tools, Burt is adept at a multitude of technologies including VB, COM, ASP, SQL, C#, C++, x86 assembler, UML, WML, and the Palm OS. As a consultant, Burt provides services to healthcare companies, music publishers, financial institutions, and sports organizations. As an entrepreneur, he develops handheld applications that empower the individual. Burt has spoken on C# at Wrox conferences in Las Vegas and Amsterdam. He can be reached at kbharvey@mindspring.com.

As a strategic technology advisor at Sage, Craig McQueen plays a key role in educating clients about the latest trends in current and emerging IT industry standards (COM, .NET, Dynamic HTML, XML, etc.). This role is supported by Craig's active involvement in trade and industry publishing and speaking opportunities. He has been a contributor to six books related to web applications, as well as industry periodicals including Visual C++ Developer and ActiveWeb Developer. Craig was also a presenter at the 1999 and 2000 ASP Professional Web Developer Conferences.

Christian Nagel is working as a trainer and consultant for Global Knowledge, the largest independent information technology training provider. With his profound knowledge of Microsoft technologies - he's certified as Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), Solution Developer (MCSD) and Systems Engineer (MCSE) - he enjoys teaching others programming and architecting distributed solutions. As founder of the now called .NET User Group Austria and as MSDN Regional Director he is speaker at European Developer conferences, and more and more addressed by many developers.

Morgan Skinner has used all sorts of languages and platforms, including VAX Macro Assembler, Pascal, Modula2, Smalltalk, x86 assembly language, PowerBuilder, C/C++, Visual Basic and currently C#.

Jay Glynn has been developing software for over 12 years. He currently works as a Senior Architect at a large financial services company where he's designed and developed client/server and pen based applications for the past several years. Jay is also responsible for developing standards, practices and methodologies for large teams of developers. Jay can be reached at jay_glynn@agfg.com.

Karli Watson is an in-house author for Wrox. He started out with the intention of becoming a world famous nanotechnologist, so perhaps one day you might recognize his name as he receives a Nobel Prize. For now, though, Karli's computing interests include all things mobile, and upcoming technologies such as C#. He can often be found preaching about these technologies at conferences.

Ollie Cornes has been working with the Internet and the Microsoft platform since the early 90's. In 1999 he co-founded a business-to-business Internet company and until recently was their Chief Technical Officer. Prior to that his various roles involved programming, technical authoring, network management, writing, leading development projects and consulting. Ollie has a degree in computer science and is Microsoft certified.

Jerod Moemeka is an architect with Fujitsu Transaction services. He is responsible for opportunity identification and ownership, as well as full product life cycle inception, design, and implementation. Part of this charge involves project planning, UML design, software and hardware evaluation, resource acquisition, and project team mentoring. Jerod has also worked as a Java architect for SUN Microsystems, a senior IT specialist with IBM and lead architect with JIS. In this capacity he has been part of the architecture team of such high profile sites as Priceline.com, MyFujiFilm.com, SonyStyle.com, and Volume.com.