About the Author

Serge Lidin, a Russian-born Canadian with more than 20 years in the computer industry, has programmed in more languages and for more platforms than he can recall, in areas varying from astrophysics models to industrial process simulation to transaction processing in financial systems. From 1999 to mid-2005, he worked on the Microsoft .NET common language runtime team, where he designed and developed the IL assembler, IL disassembler, Metadata validator, and runtime metadata validation in the execution engine. Currently, Serge works on the VC++ compiler back-end team in the Static Analysis group. When not writing software or sleeping, he plays tennis, skis, dives, and reads books (his literary taste is below any criticism). Serge shares his time between Vancouver, British Columbia, where his heart is, and Redmond, Washington, where his brain is.