I was very lucky that so many of the great people I asked to contribute to this book decided to do so. The list of contributors for this book runs the gamut from professional authors to individual, add-in developers. They did an incredible job, and this book would not be the same without them.
Jamie Cansdale (http://www.testdriven.net/weblog.
Jayme Davis is an enterprise application developer in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been working with Microsoft technologies for seven years, including .NET since the second beta release. You can reach Jayme at http://www.arcware.net and has been published in leading industry publications such as MSDN Magazine and VB2TheMax.
As editor and main contributor to http://ScottOnWriting.NET.
Darrell Norton is a Senior Consultant for CapTech Ventures, a regional consulting firm in Richmond, Virginia. When he's not programming .NET, he spends his free time working out, snowboarding, and reading. His blog can be found at http://www.codebetter.com/blogs/darrell.
Chris Nurse was born in Bradford, England, in 1964 and was given his first introduction to computers at the age of 12. Since then, hardly a day has gone by when he has not touched a computer. In 2002, Chris moved to Perth, Australia, where he spent two years writing patents until moving to a position developing software for the Department of Justice in Perth. There he is part of a team working on one of the largest .NET projects in Australia. In December 2002, Chris married Bobbie; the two were the first people in history to marry at the end of the world famous Bussleton Jetty. When not at the computer, Chris is either playing guitar or enjoying his recently discovered passion for fishing on the West Coast of Australia.
Alex Papadimoulis lives in Berea, Ohio, and has lived in the Cleveland area his entire life. Currently employed by Ohio Savings Bank, he's been involved in information technology development for nearly a decade. Alex was awarded a bachelor of Computer Science from Baldwin Wallace College in 2002. Alex can usually be found answering questions in various Microsoft .NET newsgroups and posting some rather interesting real-life examples of how not to program on his blog, TheDailyWTF.com. You can contact Alex directly via email at http://weblogs.asp.net/rweigelt) has been writing software since 1983, developing for PCs since 1988. His experience includes programming in C/C++, Java, JavaScript, Visual Basic, XSL, and C#. He is currently employed as a software developer at Comma Soft AG in Bonn, Germany, where he is working on frontend technologies, development tools, and framework API design in general.
Michael Wood is a .NET developer and has been working with .NET since before Beta 2 in 2001. He lives in northern Kentucky and works across the river in Ohio as a developer and solution designer. His blog and contact information can be found at http://www.mvwood.com/blog.