Applied WPF 4 in Context
Copyright 2011 by Raffaele Garofalo
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To my wife Debbie, and to Morgana, the best dog I ever had!!
Contents at a Glance
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About the Author
Raffaele Garofalo is a .NET software architect who builds line-of-business (LOB) applications for a living. He works for a hedge fund in Bermuda, where he and his wife, Debbie, moved three years ago. He is originally from Italy, and in his free time he loves to travel around Europe with his wife.
Raffaele is passionate about .NET and WPF and spends his free time writing articles and blog posts about WPF and the MVVM. He is Microsoft Certified (MCAD, MCSD, MCTS, SQL Server, and SharePoint) and he hosts articles and blog posts about WPF and MVVM on his blog. You can visit his blog at http://blog.raffaeu.com.
This is Raffaele second book. His first one was Building Enterprise Applications with Windows Presentation Foundation and the Model View ViewModel Pattern, Microsoft Press 2011, about LOB applications and the MVVM pattern.
About the Technical Reviewer
Damien Foggon is a developer, writer, and technical reviewer specializing in cutting-edge technologies, and has contributed to more than 50 books on .NET, C#, Visual Basic, and ASP.NET. He is the co-founder of the Newcastle-based user group NEBytes (www.nebytes.net
), is a multiple MCPD in .NET 2.0, .NET 3.5, and .NET 4.0. Visit him online at http://blog.fasm.co.uk.