About the Reviewers

Carlos Hulot has been working in the IT industry for more than 20 years in different capabilities, from software development and project management, to IT marketing / product development and management. He has worked for multinational companies such as Royal Philips Electronics, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Microsoft. Currently, he is working as an independent IT consultant. Carlos is a Computer Science lecturer at two Brazilian universities and holds a PhD in Computer Science and Electronics from University of Southampton, UK, and a BSc degree in Physics from University of São Paulo, Brazil.

I would like to thank my wife, Mylene Melly, for her continuous support. I would also like to thank my many colleagues over the years that have made it possible for me to learn what I know now about software development and the computer industry.

Darren Kopp is a father, husband, software engineer, and gamer. He started programming when creating a website for his clan in the game Tribes using ASP and then moved on to ASP.NET when .NET 1.1 was released.

Darren started professional development work with the golf industry, developing systems ranging from e-commerce solutions for golf shops to systems that tracked the swing profiles of golfers. He then moved on to the construction industry where he developed software that integrated payroll, human resources, service management, and project management.

Darren currently works for DevResults, which provide web-based solutions to the international development and humanitarian communities. When he isn't coding or spending time with his family, you can find him on Twitter making jokes and playing Team Fortress 2 and Battlefield 4.

Sergey Kosivchenko is a 23-year-old software developer in the field of automation of business processes in manufacturing with about 5 years of experience. C#, WPF, and Entity Framework are some of the main tools used by Sergey to implement solutions. He spends most of his free time gaining new knowledge about software development and computer technologies.

For over 10 years, Sergey has been working in a company that develops web- and client-side applications and has now become one of the leaders in software development in the Southern Federal District of Russian Federation.

André Matos is a senior software engineer who discovered his passion for technology when he was a teenager. He got his first computer when he was 16, discovered the Internet a year later, and decided that he must know more about technology. He finished his MSc back in 2012 from a Portuguese university, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, specializing in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial data exploration.

André, now 27 years old, has experience in several technologies and platforms, starting his professional career back in 2008 with a mission to build a website for maps in Portugal to compete against Google Maps. There, he fell in love with JavaScript and GIS. He built the website and a GIS platform to support it and it was a huge success in Portugal.

Nowadays, André works for British Sky Broadcasting. His task is to build a video-on-demand service, which will run on multiple platforms. He is responsible for the backend infrastructure and service availability.

Apart from the frontend technologies, André is an open source enthusiast with several open source projects hosted on his GitHub repo (http://github.com/apdmatos), and has contributed to other projects, such as jQuery, Ninject, and Underscore.

Anand Narayanaswamy, an ASPInsider, works as a freelance writer based in Trivandrum, Kerala, India. He was a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) from 2002 to 2011 and had worked as a Chief Technical Editor for www.ASPAlliance.com for a period of 5 years.

Anand has also worked as a technical editor for several popular publishers, such as Sams, Addison-Wesley Professional, Wrox, Deitel, Packt Publishing, and Manning. His technical editing skills helped the authors of Sams Teach Yourself the C# Language in 21 Days, Sams; Core C# and .NET: The Complete and Comprehensive Developer's Guide to C# 2.0 and .NET 2.0, Prentice Hall; Professional ADO.NET 2 Programming with SQL Server 2005, Oracle and MySQL, Wrox; ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts in Action: Building Dynamic Web Portals, Wrox, and Internet and World Wide Web (4th Edition), Deitel, to fine-tune the content.

He also contributed articles to the Microsoft Knowledge Base, and sites such as www.c-sharpcorner.com, www.developer.com, and www.codeguru.com, and delivered podcast shows.

Anand runs his own blog at LearnXpress (www.learnxpress.com) and provides blog script installation services. He also hosts a video channel at http://tv.learnxpress.com, where you can watch free videos related to Windows, social media, and other related technologies. He is the author and publisher of free LearnXpress study guides that can be downloaded in PDF format directly from his blog.

Anand can be reached at <visualanand@gmail.com> and will smile if you follow him on Twitter @visualanand.