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Onur Gumus works as a lead software engineer in Dubai UAE. He has 15 years of experience in .NET and web development. He is a functional programming enthusiast and has completed many large projects with ASP.NET.

Mugilan T. S. Ragupathi has been working on building web-based applications using Microsoft technology for more than a decade. He is active in the ASP.NET community and is running a successful blog, dotnetodyssey.com, to help his fellow .NET developers. His free beginners' course for ASP.NET MVC 5 at the above blog was well received and is referred to as a concrete reference for beginners. He has also written two free micro e-books, The 7 Most Popular Recipes of jQuery with ASP.NET Web Forms and Value & Reference types in C#. His books have received a good response.

He can be seen on csharp subreddit/Stack Overow and is also an active contributor to the ASP.NET community on Quora, going by the username Mugil-Ragu. He likes to help readers with queries regarding ASP.NET.

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