Brad Wilson - Professional ASP.NET MVC 5

Professional ASP.NET MVC 5

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To my wife, Rachel, my daughters, Rosemary, Esther, and Ellie, and to you reading this book. Enjoy!

Jon Galloway

To Potten on Potomac.

K. Scott Allen

Jon Galloway works at Microsoft as a Technical Evangelist focused on ASP.NET and Azure. He writes samples and tutorials like the MVC Music Store and is a frequent speaker at web conferences and international Web Camps events. Jon's been doing professional web development since 1998, including high scale applications in financial, entertainment and healthcare analytics. He's part of the Herding Code podcast (http://herdingcode.com), blogs at http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway, and twitters as @jongalloway. He lives in San Diego with his wife, three daughters, and a bunch of avocado trees.

Brad Wilson has been a software professional for more than 20 years, working as a consultant, developer, team lead, architect, and CTO. During his 7 year tenure at Microsoft, he worked on both ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Web API. Today, he is Technical Director at CenturyLink Cloud, working on their worldwide Infrastructure-as-a-Service and cloud management platform. He is also an active open source contributor to xUnit.net and ElasticLINQ.

In his off hours, he's an avid musician, poker player, and photographer.

K. Scott Allen is the founder of OdeToCode LLC and a software consultant. Scott has over 20 of commercial software development experience across a wide range of technologies. He has delivered software products for embedded devices, Windows desktop, web, and mobile platforms. He has developed web services for Fortune 50 companies and firmware for startups. Scott is also a speaker at international conferences and delivers classroom training and mentoring to companies around the world.

David Matson works for Microsoft as a senior software developer. He is part of the team that built MVC 5 and Web API 2. Prior to joining ASP.NET, David developed core security components for Azure and tested the M language compiler. He joined Microsoft in 2008 after working on a variety of websites as a developer, consultant and small business owner. David lives with his wife and children in Redmond, Washington.

Phil Haack was the original author of Chapters 3, 9, and.10. He works at GitHub, striving to make Git and GitHub better for developers on Windows. Prior to joining GitHub, Phil was a Senior Program Manager with the ASP.NET team whose areas of responsibility included ASP.NET MVC and NuGet. As a code junkie, Phil loves to craft software. Not only does he enjoy writing software, he enjoys writing about software and software management on his blog, http://haacked.com/.

Eilon Lipton joined the ASP.NET team as a developer at Microsoft in 2002. On this team, he has worked on areas ranging from data source controls to localization to the UpdatePanel control. He is now a development manager on the ASP.NET team working on open source projects including ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Web Pages with Razor, SignalR, Entity Framework, and the Orchard CMS. Eilon is also a frequent speaker on a variety of ASP.NET-related topics at conferences worldwide. He graduated from Boston University with a dual degree in Math and Computer Science. Time permitting, Eilon has a garage workshop where he builds what he considers to be well-designed furniture. If you know anyone who needs a coffee table that's three feet tall and has a slight slope to it, send him an e-mail. Eilon and his wife enjoy building Lego models and assembling jigsaw puzzles (minus the pieces that their cats have hidden).

Peter Mourfield is the Director of Software Engineering for TaxSlayer where he is responsible for ensuring that the best software processes, architectures, and techniques are used. Peter speaks at software community events; is a member of ASP and Azure Insiders; and has contributed to a number of open source projects including NerdDinner and MvvmCross.

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