Alvin Ashcraft is a developer living near Philadelphia. He has spent his 23-year career building software with C#, Visual Studio, WPF, ASP.NET, and more. He has been awarded the Microsoft MVP title on nine occasions. You can read his daily links for .NET developers on his blog, Morning Dew. He works as a principal software engineer for Allscripts, building healthcare software. He has previously been employed by software companies, including Oracle. He has reviewed other titles for Packt Publishing, such as Mastering ASP.NET Core 2.0, Mastering Entity Framework Core 2.0, and Learning ASP.NET Core 2.0.
I would like to thank my wonderful wife, Stelene, and our three amazing daughters for their support. They were very understanding when I was reading and reviewing these chapters in the evenings and at weekends to help deliver a useful, high-quality book for .NET developers.