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Peter Ritchie is a software development consultant. He is the president of Peter Ritchie Inc. Software Consulting Co., a software consulting company in Canada,s National Capital Region, which specializes in Windows-based software development management, process, and implementation consulting.

Peter has worked with clients such as Mitel, Nortel, Passport Canada, and Innvapost, from mentoring, to architecture, to implementation. He has considerable experience in building software development teams and working with startups towards agile software development. Peter,s experience ranges from designing and implementing simple stand-alone applications, to architecting n-tier applications spanning dozens of computers, and from C++ to C#.

Peter is active in the software development community, attending and speaking at various events, as well as authoring various works including Refactoring with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, Packt Publishing .

There are countless number of people that have contributed to my knowledge and motivation to contribute to the community with projects like this book. In particular, I would like to thank Joe Miller for his sharp eyes and having clearly better editing abilities than mine.

I would also like to thank my wife Sherry for the continued love and support despite all the extra time I had to put into projects like book writing.

I would also like to thank my parents, Helen and Bruce; I still miss you.

Carlos Hulot has been working in the IT area for more than 20 years in different capabilities, from software development, project management, to IT marketing, product development, and management. He has worked for multinational companies such as Royal Philips Electronics, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, and Microsoft.

Carlos currently works as an independent IT consultant. He is also a Computer Science lecturer at two Brazilian universities. Carlos holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Electronics from the University of Southampton, UK and a B.Sc. in Physics from University of So Paulo, Brazil.

Ahmed Ilyas has a BEng degree from Napier University in Edinburgh, Scotland, having majored in Software development. He has 15 years of professional experience in software development.

After leaving Microsoft, Ahmed ventured into setting up his consultancy company Sandler Ltd. (UK), offering the best possible solutions for a magnitude of industries, and providing real-world answers to those problems. The company uses the Microsoft stack to build these technologies. Being able to bring in the best practices, patterns, and software to its client base for enabling long term stability and compliance in the ever changing software industry, pushing the limits in technology, as well as improving software developers around the globe.

Ahmed has been awarded the MVP in C# by Microsoft three times, for providing excellence and independent real-world solutions to problems that developers face.

Ahmed,s breadth and depth of knowledge has been obtained from his research and from the valuable wealth of information and research at Microsoft. By knowing the fact that 90 percent of the world uses at least one form of Microsoft technology, motivates and inspires him.

Ahmed has worked for a number of clients and employers. With the great reputation that he has, it has resulted in having a large client base for his consultancy company, which includes clients from different industries. From media to medical and beyond. Some clients have included him on their "approved contractors/consultants" list. The list includes ICS Solution Ltd. (placed on their DreamTeam portal) and also EPS Software Corp. (based in the USA).

I would like to thank the author and the publisher for giving me the opportunity to review this book. I would also like to thank my client base and especially my colleagues at Microsoft for enabling me to become a reputable leader as a software developer in the industry, which is my passion.

Ken Tucker is a Microsoft MVP (2003 present) in Visual Basic and currently works at Amovius LLC in Melbourne, Florida (FL). He is also the President of the Space Coast .Net User Group and a frequent speaker at Florida Code Camps. Ken be reached at <>.

I'd like to thank my wife Alice-Marie.