About the Authors

Mark Michaelis is the founder of IntelliTect and serves as the Chief Technical Architect and Trainer. Since 1996, he has been a Microsoft MVP for C#, Visual Studio Team System, and the Windows SDK, and in 2007 he was recognized as a Microsoft Regional Director. He also serves on several Microsoft software design review teams, including C#, the Connected Systems, Office/SharePoint, and Visual Studio. He speaks at developer conferences and has written numerous articles and other books. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy from the University of Illinois and a master’s degree in computer science from the Illinois Institute of Technology. When not bonding with his computer, he is busy with his family or training for another triathlon (having completed his first Ironman in 2008). He lives in Spokane, Washington, with his wife Elisabeth and three children, Benjamin, Hanna, and Abigail.

Eric Lippert is a principal developer on the C# compiler team at Microsoft. He has worked on the design and implementation of the Visual Basic, VBScript, Jscript, and C# languages and on Visual Studio Tools For Office, and is a member of the C# language design team. When not writing or editing books about C#, he does his best to keep his tiny sailboat upright. He lives in Seattle with his wife, Leah.