About the Authors

ALESSANDRO GALLO is a Microsoft MVP in the Visual ASP/ASP.NET category and a .NET developer/consultant with a primary focus on ASP.NET application design and development. He is a contributor for the Ajax Control Toolkit project, owned by Microsoft. Alessandro has been developing with ASP.NET AJAX since the first CTP. He won the Grand Prize at the Mash-it-up with ASP.NET AJAX contest held by Microsoft in 2006. Alessandro lives in Sassari, a small city on the beautiful Italian island of Sardinia.

DAVID BARKOL is a Principal Consultant for Neudesic, one of Microsoft’s leading .NET professional service firms and a Gold Certified Partner. At Neudesic, David specializes in providing custom .NET solutions that leverage the Microsoft technology platform. A frequent speaker at code camps and .NET user groups in Southern California, David is also an MCSD in .NET and avid urban hang-glider. David resides in tropical La Palma, California, with his wife Emily and two daughters Miranda and Madeline.

RAMA KRISHNA VAVILALA is Chief Technical Architect at 3C Software. He is the brain behind Impact:ECS™, the leading enterprise cost-management solution for manufacturers in vertical markets ranging from textiles to semiconductors to food processors. He has over a decade of wide-ranging experience from developing desktop applications using MFC, Windows Forms, and WPF, to developing Microsoft Office Solutions, to developing Ajax-powered web applications. He lives in Atlanta with his wife Radhika and his daughter Shreya.