Lohith G.N. - Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development with F#

Lohith G. N. hails from Mysore, India and currently resides in Bangalore, India. He has over 12 years of experience in software development. He presently works as a Developer Evangelist for Telerik in India and takes care of Evangelism for the South Indian region. He comes from a Production Engineering background and ended up in software development thanks to the FORTRAN language that he learned during his graduation days. Being well versed with the .NET platform, Lohith has experience building web applications, Windows applications, and Service Oriented Architecture. He has spent close to a decade mostly in the services-based industry and is well versed with the agile method of software development.

Lohith is also a two time Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in the area of ASP.NET/IIS. He was given this prestigious award from Microsoft in 2011 and 2012. He often writes on ASP.NET/ODATA and maintains his own blog at http://kashyapas.com. He can be reached on Twitter and his Twitter handle is @kashyapa. To know more about Lohith you can check out http://about.me/kashyapa. Lohith is also one of the User Group leads for Bangalore DotNet User Groupone of the most active User Groups in India. He is a regular speaker at the local user groups.

This is the first ever book that I have written and I take this opportunity to thank my parents. I would also like to thank my lovely wife Rashmi and my lovely son Adithya for having put up with me while writing this book. I have promised them a nice vacation as soon as I am done with the book.

Senthil Kumar is a Software Engineer and a passionate blogger. He works mainly on Windows or client development technologies and has good working experience in C#/.NET, Delphi, Win forms, Windows Phone, Windows 8, and SQL Server.

He completed his Master of Computer Applications from Christ College (Autonomous), Bangalore in the year 2009 and is a MCA rank holder (gold medalist).He has worked as a technical reviewer for Windows Identity Foundation Cookbook , Sandeep Chandra , Packt Publishing .

You can connect with him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/isenthil, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/kumarbsenthil, and his blog at www.ginktage.com.

Vivek Thangaswamy is highly committed to technology support and service to the global community and workplace. Looking at his community support activity Microsoft awarded him the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for three consecutive years2007 for ASP.NET, 2008 and 2009 for SharePoint. He has also been awarded the Professional Excellence and Innovation Award for the year 2011 from www.npa.org. He has been awarded with bronze, silver, and gold medals by dotnetspider.com for his contribution to the community. www.experts-exchange.com has awarded him Master status in XML, ASP.NET, and SharePoint.

Apart from this recognition, Vivek has contributed to the MSDN forums and www.codeproject.com. He is the administrator for all technology-related discussions at www.redpipit.com. He is the creator for two projects in www.codeplex.coman open source community for Microsoft Technologies. He has authored Exploring SharePoint Foundation 2010 , Darkcrab Press and VSTO 3.0 for Office 2007 Programming , Packt Publishing , co-authored the book System Analysis and Design , LAP Lambert Academic Publishing , and has been the technical reviewer for three books Microsoft Office Live Small Business: Beginner's Guide , Packt Publishing , Refactoring with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 , Packt Publishing , and BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5 Implementation Guide, Packt Publishing .

I would like to dedicate this book to my family and friends; they are the confidence and the strength in my life.