Jason N. Gaylord - Professional ASP.NET 4.5 in C# and VB

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Professional ASP.NET 4.5 in C# and VB

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To my loving wife, Lisa, and our four awesome children.

Jason N. Gaylord

I would like to dedicate this book with the following quote, to my mother who has been instrumental in my upbringing and is an integral part of my life. Abraham Lincoln said, All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Pranav Rastogi

To Kelly, Amber, and Sydney

Todd Miranda

To my wife and the two little boys I work for.

Scott Hanselman

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

JASON N. GAYLORD is an application developer and Director of Technology at United One Resources in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. His programming career started with a simple GOTO statement and continued over 15 years of developing Windows and web applications. During this time, Jason has had the opportunity to plan, build, test, and deploy several enterprise applications including integrations with accounting and operating systems and B2B web applications used by some of the top banks in the United States.

Outside of the normal day to day activities, Jason blogs, speaks, and organizes technology events including TECHbash and NEPA GiveCamp. Hes the group leader for the .NET Valley technology user group. Recently, Jason was recognized as a Microsoft MVP for 10 consecutive years. He remains a member of the ASPInsiders, a group that provides product feedback directly to the ASP.NET team. You can find out more about Jason by visiting his website at jasongaylord.com . You can follow him on Twitter at @jgaylord .

CHRISTIAN WENZ started working almost exclusively with web technologies in 1993 and has not looked back since. As a developer and project manager he has been responsible for websites from mediumsized companies up to large, international enterprises. As an author, he has written or co-written over 100 books that have been translated into 10 languages. As a consultant, he helped companies and teams of developers to make their applications more reliable, better performing, and more secure. Christian frequently writes for various IT magazines, is a sought-after speaker at developer conferences around the world, and is always keen on sharing technologies he is excited about with others. He contributes to various open source projects, is a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP and an ASPInsider, and co-author of several developer certifications. You can follow him on Twitter at @chwenz .

PRANAV RASTOGI is a member of the Microsoft ASP.NET product team and is based in Seattle. Over the past years, Pranav has worked on a variety of areas such as ASP.NET Web Forms, Dynamic Data, and more recently ASP.NET SignalR. He is passionate about understanding web developer woes with the Microsoft stack and helps champion tools, packages, or libraries that will enhance the web development experience on the Microsoft stack. Pranav is also a regular speaker on a variety of ASP.NET related topics at various worldwide conferences. He blogs about his experiences at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pranav_rastogi/ . Before joining Microsoft, Pranav graduated from the University Of Florida with a masters in Computer Science.

Pranav is also a food junkie who sometimes works as a Chef de Cuisine at home. He is an adventure seeker and can be often found backpacking in the wilderness. In this spare time Pranav regularly practices his bartending skills on his friends. If you know anyone who is looking to throw a party and needs a bartender, then get in touch with him. You can follow Pranav on Twitter at @rustd .