About the Technical Reviewers

Stephen Provine is a principal software design engineer on the Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch team. He has 12 years of experience working across many aspects of the Visual Studio rapid-application-development (RAD) experiences, including the Server Explorer, SQL database tooling and overall data designer extensibility in the Visual Studio IDE. Most recently, he has focused on the architecture and design for the LightSwitch HTML client introduced in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2. Prior to working at Microsoft, Stephen received a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Harvard University.

Fabio Claudio Ferracchiati is a senior consultant and a senior analyst/developer using Microsoft technologies. He works for Brain Force (www.brainforce.com) in its Italian branch (www.brainforce.it). He is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer for .NET, a Microsoft Certified Application Developer for .NET, a Microsoft Certified Professional, and a prolific author and technical reviewer. Over the past ten years, he’s written articles for Italian and international magazines and coauthored more than ten books on a variety of computer topics.