About the Author
Mark Michaelis is the founder of IntelliTect, an innovative software architecture and development firm where he serves as the chief technical architect and trainer. Mark leads his successful company while flying around the world delivering conference sessions on leadership or technology and conducting speaking engagements on behalf of Microsoft or other clients. He has also written numerous articles and books, and is an adjunct professor at Eastern Washington University, founder of the Spokane .NET Users Group, and co-organizer of the annual TEDx Coeur d'Alene events.
A world-class C# expert, Mark has been a Microsoft Regional Director since 2007 and a Microsoft MVP for more than 25 years.
Mark holds a bachelor of arts 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, Mark is busy showing his kids real life in other countries or playing racquetball (having suspended competing in Ironman back in 2016). Mark lives in Spokane, Washington, with his wife, Elisabeth, and three children, Benjamin, Hanna, and Abigail.
About the Technical Editors
Kevin Bost is a successful Microsoft MVP and senior software architect at IntelliTect. He has been instrumental in the building of several innovative products, including System.CommandLine, Moq.AutoMocker, and ShowMeTheXAML. When not at work, Kevin can be found online mentoring other developers on YouTube (youtube.keboo.dev) and maintaining the popular Material Design in XAML toolkit (http://materialdesigninxaml.net/). He also enjoys board games, Ultimate Frisbee, and riding his motorcycle.
Eric Lippert works on developer tools at Facebook; he is a former member of the C# language design team at Microsoft. When not answering C# questions on StackOverflow or editing programming books, Eric does his best to keep his tiny sailboat upright. He lives in Seattle, Washington, with his wife, Leah.