A.P. Rajshekhar - .NET Framework 4. 5 Expert Programming Cookbook

A.P. Rajshekhar , Senior Developer with Red Hat, has more than 7 years of experience in IT, having worked on applications ranging from enterprise-level web applications and game development to android applications. His endeavors include development of Learning Management System, Health Systems, Supply Management Solution, and Xbox-based games. He has extensive knowledge of different technologies (SOA, Portal, Java Persistence, and .NET Persistence) and platforms (Sharepoint and JBoss EAP). He is also the author of Building Dynamic Web 2.0 Websites with Ruby on Rails , Packt Publishing , that was in Amazon's top 50 in Web 2.0 for 6 months. Apart from that he has also contributed to DevShed Portal on topics ranging from server-side development (JEE/.NET/RoR) to mobile (Symbian/Android-based development) and game development (SDL and OpenGL) with a total readership of more than 3 million. He is currently ranked among the top 10 authors on DevShed. You can find out about his interests on his blogs http://aprajshekhar.wordpress.com and http://sententiasupervicis.wordpress.com.

Authoring a book is not an easy feat. However, the help and guidance from my family and friends helped me to author this book. First, I would like to thank Packt Publishing for providing me an opportunity to work on such an exciting project. I would like to thank my parents for their constant encouragement. Special thanks to my friends Shrikant Khare and Sormita Chakraborty for their support, encouragement, and initial research on the topics to be covered.

Wei Chung, Low is a Business Intelligence Manager, a .NET developer, and a MCT, MCPD, MCITP, MCTS, MCSD.NET. He works with IPG MediaBrands (NYSE: IPG) at its Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia campus. He is also a member of PMI, certified as PMP. He started working on Microsoft .NET early in his career and has been involved in development, consultation, and corporate training in the areas of business intelligence, system integration, and virtualization. He has worked for the Bursa Malaysia (formerly Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange) and Shell IT International previously, which gave him rich integration experiences across different platforms.

He strongly believes that a good system implementation delivers precious value to businesses, and integration of various systems across different platforms shall always be a part of it, just as diverse people from different cultures live together in harmony in most of the major cities.

Jason De Oliveira works as CTO for Cellenza (http://www.cellenza.com), an IT Consulting company specializing in Microsoft technologies and Agile methodology in Paris, France. He is an experienced Manager and Senior Solutions Architect, with advanced skills in Software Architecture and Enterprise Architecture.

Jason works for big companies and helps them to realize complex and challenging software projects. He frequently collaborates with Microsoft and you can quite often find him at the Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) in Paris.

He loves sharing his knowledge and experience via his blog, by speaking at conferences, writing technical books, writing articles in the technical press, giving software courses as a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), and coaching co-workers in his company.

Microsoft has awarded him the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP C#) Award since 2011 for his numerous contributions to the Microsoft community. Microsoft seeks to recognize the best and brightest from technology communities around the world with the MVP Award. These exceptional and highly respected individuals come from more than 90 countries, serving their local online and offline communities and have an impact worldwide. Jason is very proud to be one of them.

Please feel free to contact him via his blog if you need any technical assistance or want to exchange information on technical subjects (http://www.jasondeoliveira.com).

Jason has worked on the following books: