Can Bilgin - Mobile Development with .NET: Build cross-platform mobile applications with Xamarin.Forms 5 and ASP.NET Core 5, 2nd Edition

Build cross-platform mobile applications with Xamarin.Forms 5 and ASP.NET Core 5

Can Bilgin

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To my beloved wife and best friend for life, Sanja.

Can Bilgin

Can Bilgin is a solution architect, working for Authority Partners Inc. He has been working in the software industry for almost two decades on various consumer- and enterprise-level engagements for high-profile clients using technologies such as BizTak, Service Fabric, Orleans, Dynamics CRM, Xamarin, WCF, Azure services, and other web/cloud technologies. His passion lies in mobile and IoT development using modern tools available to developers. He shares his experience on his blog, on social media, and through speaking engagements at local and international community events. He was recognized as a Microsoft MVP for his technical contributions between 2014 and 2018.

I want to thank my wife and daughter for their tremendous support during this project.

Ahmed Ilyas has 18 years of professional experience in software development.

After leaving Microsoft, he ventured into setting up his own consultancy company, offering the best possible solutions for a number of industries and providing real-world answers to those problems. He uses the Microsoft stack to not only build these technologies to be able to provide the best practices, patterns, and software to his client base to enable long-term stability and compliance in the ever-changing software industry but also to improve the skills of software developers around the globe as well as pushing the limits of technology.

This has led to him being awarded MVP in C# by Microsoft three times for "providing excellence and independent real-world solutions to problems that developers face." His great reputation has resulted in him having a large client base for his consultancy company, Sandler Ltd (UK) and Sandler Software LLC (US), which includes clients from different industries. Clients have included him on their "approved contractors/consultants" list as a trusted vendor and partner.

Ahmed Ilyas has also been involved in the past in reviewing books for Packt Publishing and wishes to thank them for the great opportunity once again.

I would like to thank the author/publisher of this book for giving me the great honor and privilege of reviewing the book, as well as, especially, Microsoft Corporation and my colleagues for enabling me to become a reputable leader as a software and solutions developer in the industry.