About the Authors

After narrowly escaping the era of punch cards, Eric Gunnerson worked at various companies before landing at Microsoft, where he has worked on Visual C++, Visual C#, Windows DVD Maker, Microsoft HealthVault, and, most recently, internal tools in the Engineering Excellence group.

He was a member of the C# language design team through the development of the early versions of the language and was the author of a well-trafficked blog during that time.

In his spare time, he enjoys skiing and ski instruction, leading bicycle rides, doing home improvement, working on microcontroller projects, and writing about himself in the third person.

Nick Wienholt is a long time .NET developer based in Sydney. With 15 years of experience and three MVP awards to his name, Nick has taken an active role in the .NET community over the years, including cofounding the Sydney Deep .NET User Group which met regularly and successfully for many years, and authoring Maximizing .NET Performance for Apress, published in 2003. Nick played a key part in the development of this book, as the author of its third edition.