Karli Watson - Beginning Visual C# 2012 programming

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Beginning Visual C# 2012 Programming

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for donna

Karli Watson

Love is as strong as death;

Many waters cannot quench love ,

neither can the floods drown it .

From the inside of my Mums hymnbook, of which I now have the privilege of being the custodian.

Morgan Skinner

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

KARLI WATSON is an IT contractor and author currently working in London in the financial sector. For the most part, he immerses himself in .NET (in particular C#) and has written numerous books in the field for several publishers. He specializes in communicating complex ideas in a way that is accessible to anyone with a passion to learn, and spends much of his time playing with new technology to find new things to teach people about.

During those (seemingly few) times where he isnt doing the above, Karli will probably be wishing he was hurtling down a mountain on a snowboard. Or possibly trying to get his novel published. Either way, youll know him by his brightly colored clothes. You can also find him tweeting online as @karlequin, and maybe one day hell get round to making himself a website.

JACOB VIBE HAMMER is a software architect and developer at Kamstrup, where he is helping the company develop world class Smart Grid solutions for large public utilities. He started programming just about the time when he was able to spell the word BASIC which, incidentally, is the first programming language he ever used. Since then, he has worked with numerous programming languages and solution architectures; however, since the turn of the century, he has worked primarily with the .NET platform. Today, his programming time is spent working primarily with C# and WPF, as well as toying with NoSQL databases.

A Danish citizen, Jacob lives in Aarhus, Denmark, with his wife and son.

JON D. REID is the Director of Software Technology for IFS Metrix Service Management ( www.IFSWORLD.com/Metrix ). He has coauthored a number of .NET books, including Beginning Visual C# 2010, Fast Track C#, Pro Visual Studio .NET , and many others.

MORGAN SKINNER started messing with computers in 1980 when he first started programming at school in assembly language. Since then hes used many languages commercially, including Pascal, Modula-2, VAX Macro assembly language, Smalltalk, PowerBuilder, C, C++ and C# (to name the more well-known ones). He joined Microsoft in 2001 after getting his hands on .NET for the first time, and he spent nearly 10 years there as an Application Development Consultant, working with some of the smallest and largest companies in the UK. Morgan left Microsoft in 2011 and is now an independent contractor working on bespoke systems; see www.morganskinner.com for more details.

DANIEL KEMPER is a software architect with a couple of Microsoft certifications. He specializes in rich Internet application, desktop client, and reporting technologies.

CHRISTIAN NAGEL is a Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft MVP, an associate of thinktecture, and founder of CN innovation. A software architect and developer, he offers training and consulting on how to develop solutions using the Microsoft platform. He draws on more than 25 years of software development experience. Christian started his computing career with PDP 11 and VAX/VMS systems, covering a variety of languages and platforms. Since 2000, when .NET was just a technology preview, he has been working with various .NET technologies to build .NET solutions. Currently, he mainly coaches the development of Windows 8 apps accessing Windows Azure services. With his profound knowledge of Microsoft technologies, he has written numerous books and is certified as a Microsoft Certified Trainer and Professional Developer. Christian speaks at international conferences such as TechEd, Basta!, and TechDays, and he founded INETA Europe to support .NET user groups. You can contact Christian via his websites, www.cninnovation.com and www.thinktecture.com . You can also follow his tweets at @christiannagel.