Jeff Martin - Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook

Jeff Martin is a long-time technology enthusiast and has been a contributing writer for InfoQ (www.infoq.com) for over two years, focusing on .NET and Microsoft-based platforms. Having experience in writing, testing, and designing software, he enjoys learning about new technologies and explaining them to a broader audience.

Readers are encouraged to follow @VSDevTips on Twitter to receive updates on the book as well as news for getting the most out of Visual Studio.

I would like to thank my lovely wife Carolyn for her love and understanding during my frequent late-night writing sessions. Your support for these projects means more to me than I can express.

I would also like to thank my brother Dan Martin for providing a great photo for the cover of this book.

Finally, thank you to my entire production team at Packt Publishing for their effort and assistance in producing this book.

Richard Banks has developed software for the last 20 years for a wide range of industries and development platforms. Over the years he has played many roles including that of a developer, team lead, project manager, and CIO/CTO. He is a Professional Scrum Trainer, runs the Sydney ALT.NET user group and the Talking Shop Down Under podcast. He owns and contributes to a few open source projects, and has spoken at Microsoft TechEd and a number of other events and user groups around Australia. For some strange reason, he gets a real kick out of helping development teams to improve and produce great software. If you want to get in touch, he tweets at @rbanks54 and blogs at http://www.richard-banks.org/. He currently works as a Principal Consultant for Readify and is a Microsoft Visual Studio ALM MVP.

It might have my name on the front cover but a book is never the work of just one person.

I would firstly like to thank my fantastic wife, Anne, and my two wonderful children, Hannah and Leisel, for giving me the time and space to work on this book. Their support throughout the process has been invaluable, and without that I would never have undertaken this book in the first place.

Id also like to thank the staff and Packt Publishing for the opportunity and help in bringing this together, and my tech reviewers who gave up their spare time reading my scribble and checking if what I wrote actually made sense instead of being just a delirium-fuelled pile of nonsense.

Thank you all!

Hulot has been working in the IT industry 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, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Microsoft. Currently, He has been working as an independent IT consultant. He is a Computer Science lecturer at two Brazilian universities. He 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.

I would like to thank my wife Mylene Melly for her continuous support. I would also like to thank my many colleagues over the years who have made it possible to learn what I now know about software development and the computer industry.

Darren Kopp is a father, husband, software engineer, and gamer. Darren started programming when making a website for his clan in the game Tribes using ASP and then moved on to ASP.NET when .NET 1.1 was released.

Darren started professional development work in the golf industry, developing systems ranging from e-commerce solutions for golf shops to systems tracking swing profiles of golfers. He then moved on to the construction industry where he developed software that integrated payroll, human resources, service management, and project management.

Darren currently works for DevResults that provides web-based solutions to the international development and humanitarian community.

When Darren isnt coding or spending time with family, you can find him tweeting jokes and playing Team Fortress 2 and Battlefield 4.

Anand Narayanaswamy works as an editor with InfoQ based in Trivandrum, Kerala, India. He is an ASPInsider and was a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) from 2002 to 2011.

Anand also worked as a chief technical editor for ASPAlliance.com and contributed several articles and reviews for DevPro, c-sharpcorner.com, developer.com, codeguru.com, and various other community sites.

Anand also worked as a technical editor for several popular publishers such as Sams, Addison-Wesley Professional, Wrox, Deitel, Packt Publishing, and Manning.

He blogs at www.learnxpress.com and can be reached at www.facebook.com/anandn. His twitter handle is @visualanand.

Sergiy Suchok graduated in 2004 with honors from the Faculty of Cybernetics, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine) and has since then been keen on information technology. He is currently working in the banking sector and has a Ph.D. in Economics. Sergiy is the co-author of more than 45 articles and participated in more than 20 scientific and practical conferences devoted to the economic and mathematical modeling. He is a member of the New Atlantis Youth Public Organization (newatlantida.org.ua) and devotes his leisure time to environmental protection issues, historical and patriotic development, and popularization of a grateful attitude towards the Earth. He also writes poetry and short stories and makes macram.