About the Author

Jason Beres is a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer, and a Microsoft Certified Database Administrator. He's also the Chief Technology Evangelist for Computer Ways, Inc., a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner located in Deerfield Beach, Florida.

Jason has been writing code since he was 18 years old. Starting out on IBM mainframes writing COBOL 74 code and then DEC Micro-VAX systems writing DCL and VAX-BASIC, Jason had the fortunate opportunity to be exposed to a variety of computer systems, programming languages, and business issues before dedicating his career to using and implementing solutions using Microsoft technologies.

Jason is the coauthor of The Visual Basic .NET Bible and The C# Bible, both from John Wiley and Sons. He's the technical editor of and a contributing author to SQL 2000: The Complete Reference, from Osborne McGraw-Hill. He's a contributing author to ASP .NET @ Work: 10 Enterprise Applications and Building Components in Visual Basic .NET, both from John Wiley and Sons.

Jason is very active in the .NET community. He started the Florida .NET Users Groups, and is a frequent speaker at .NET user group events around the country. Jason also started Non-Profit Ways, an organization that helps not-for-profit organizations get great .NET Web sites developed by user groups around the country.

In his spare time, Jason likes to read technology and sci-fi books, test out all cool software products, and he tries to never miss an episode of Star Trek.