Effective Visual Studio .NET

Donald Xie is a business analyst with Chevron. He loves programming and has worked as an independent solution consultant for many organizations. He is co-author of several books on general and .NET programming including Pro Visual Studio.NET and Fast Track ADO.NET.

Bill Sempf has spent many years writing about XML web services. He has coauthored numerous books and frequently contributes to Builder.com, Hardcore Web Services, Inside Web Development Journal, and Intranet Journal. Sempf graduated from The Ohio State Univeristy with a BSc in business administration, and he is also an MCP, Certified Internet Business Strategist, and Certified Internet Webmaster. Bill has developed over 100 web applications for both start-up and Fortune 50 companies.

Dan Maharry has been coauthor and author on nine computing books currently in print. His most recent title, Beginning ASP.NET 1.1 with C#, adds to his linuep of other Windows titles on Visual Studio .NET, web services, Classic ASP, and HTML. Dan embraces the early adopter ethos and has also authored on Curl, XQuery and .NET My Services. As a freelance editor, Dan has worked on numerous other books, articles, white papers, presentations, and websites (notably ASP Today) mostly covering Microsoft technologies and products. He graduated from from one of the foremost European technology universities (UMIST), and now lives in Birmingham, UK, where he is a developer for 3Form Ltd. He strives to find some spare time for his own site, http://www.hmobius.com and to plan his wedding in April 2005.