About the Authors

Emanuele Garofalo is a solution architect who specializes in development for the .NET Framework. He is an active member of the DotNetCampania user group community. He is also speaker at technical conferences on the subject of XAML and C# technologies.

Emanuele’s previous book, Windows Phone 7 Recipes, was also published by Apress. He is currently employed by E-Fil s.r.l.

Antonio Liccardi works as chief technology officer, senior consultant, and trainer at BC Soft s.r.l., an Italian software development company.

Antonio is both the cofounder of and regular speaker at the DotNetCampania user group community (http://www.dotnetcampania.org). He is an accredited MCP, MCSD, MCST IT, and OCA.

Michele Aponte is cofounder and chairman of the DotNetCampania user group community (http://www.dotnetcampania.org), for which he organizes technical events covering Microsoft technologies in the Campania. He is cofounder and CEO of Blexin Srls (http://www.blexin.com), for which he develops applications for Microsoft platforms.

Michele is an MCP, MCTS, MCPD, and MCT, and has been a Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET and IIS since January 2011.