Benjamin Perkins - Beginning C# and .Net

1. Chapter 3
2. Chapter 4
3. Chapter 5
4. Chapter 9
5. Chapter 12
6. Chapter 14
7. Chapter 15
8. Chapter 16
9. Chapter 18
10. Chapter 20
11. Chapter 21

1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 3
4. Chapter 4
5. Chapter 5
6. Chapter 6
7. Chapter 7
8. Chapter 8
9. Chapter 9
10. Chapter 10
11. Chapter 11
12. Chapter 12
13. Chapter 13
14. Chapter 14
15. Chapter 15
16. Chapter 17
17. Chapter 18
18. Chapter 19
19. Chapter 20
20. Chapter 21

Benjamin Perkins

Jon D. Reid

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Benjamin Perkins is currently employed at Microsoft in Munich, Germany, as a Senior Escalation Engineer for IIS, ASP.NET, and Azure App Services. He has been working professionally in the IT industry for over two decades. He started computer programming with QBasic at the age of 11 on an Atari 1200XL desktop computer. He takes pleasure in the challenges that troubleshooting technical issues have to offer and savors in the rewards of a wellwritten program. After completing high school, he joined the United States Army. After successfully completing his military service, he attended Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, where he received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Management Information Systems. He also received a Master of Business Administration from the European University.

His roles in the IT industry have spanned the entire spectrum including programmer, system architect, technical support engineer, team leader, and midlevel management. While employed at HewlettPackard, he received numerous awards, degrees, and certifications. He has a passion for technology and customer service and looks forward to troubleshooting and writing more worldclass technical solutions. My approach is to write code with support in mind, and to write it once correctly and completely so we do not have to come back to it again, except to enhance it.

Benjamin has written numerous magazine articles and training courses and is an active blogger. His catalog of books covers C# Programming, IIS, NHibernate, Open Source, and Microsoft Azure.

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Benjamin is married to Andrea and has two wonderful children, Lea and Noa.

Jon D. Reid is a Program Manager in Research and Development for IFS AB (www.ifs.com) focusing on Field Service Management. He has coauthored many books on Microsoft technologies, including Beginning C# 7 Programming with Visual Studio 2017, Fast Track C#, Pro Visual Studio .NET, and many others.

Rod Stephens is a longtime developer and author who has written more than 250 magazine articles and 35 books that have been translated into different languages around the world. During his career, Rod has worked on an eclectic assortment of applications in such fields as telephone switching, billing, repair dispatching, tax processing, wastewater treatment, concert ticket sales, cartography, and training for professional football teams.

Rod's popular C# Helper website (www.csharphelper.com) receives millions of hits per year and contains tips, tricks, and example programs for C# programmers. His VB Helper website (www.vb-helper.com) contains similar material for Visual Basic programmers.

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It takes a lot of work to get content into a presentable format for students and IT professionals to read and get value from. The authors indeed have technical knowledge and experiences to share, but without the technical writers, technical reviewers, developers, editors, publishers, graphic designers, the list goes on, providing their valuable input, a book of high quality could not be written. The rate of change occurs too quickly for an individual to perform all these tasks and still publish a book that is valid before the technology becomes stale. This is why authors worked together with great teams to get all the components of the book together quickly. It was done to ensure that the most uptodate information gets to the reader while the features are still fresh and current. I would like to thank Rod Stephens for his technical review and suggestions throughout the process. Lastly, I would like to thank all the numerous people behind the scenes who helped get this book together.