Steven M. Swafford began developing software in 1995 while serving in the United States Air Force (USAF). Upon leaving the USAF he continued developing leading-edge solutions in support of the America's war fighters as part of the original USAF enterprise portal development team. His roots are now in Auburn, Alabama where he works for Northrop Grumman Information Technology. Steven's credits his wife Su Ok and daughter Sarah for supporting and inspiring his ongoing passion for software development and the resultant challenges of life near the bleeding edge as well as his mother Pat Harris and father Cliff Swafford for believing in him. Steven would like to thank Tim Stewart and Edward Habal who were his professional mentors and to this day remain close friends as well as Frankie Elston, Joe Chaplin, and Glenn Regan all of whom are colleagues that Steven worked closely with for years.
This is Steven's second technical review. Steven previously worked as a technical editor on ODP.NET Developers Guide.
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Anand Narayanaswamy works as an independent consultant and runs NetAns Hosting Services (www.netans.com), which provides web hosting services based in Trivandrum, Kerala State, India. Anand is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Visual C# (https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Anand) and is the author of Community Server Quickly (http://www.packtpub.com/community-server/book) published by Packt Publishing.
He works as the chief technical editor for ASPAlliance.com (http://aspalliance.com/author.aspx?uId=384030) and is also a member of ASPAlliance.com Advisory Board. He regularly contributes articles, and book and product reviews to ASPAlliance.com, C-Sharpcorner.com, Developer.com, Codeguru.com, Microsoft Academic Alliance and asp.netPRO magazine.
Anand has worked as a technical editor for several popular publishers such as Sams, Addison-Wesley Professional, Wrox, Deitel, and Manning. His technical editing skills helped the authors of Sams Teach Yourself the C# Language in 21 Days, Core C# and .NET, Professional ADO.NET 2, ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts in Action and Internet and World Wide Web (4th Edition) to fine-tune the content. He has also contributed articles for Microsoft Knowledge Base and delivered podcast shows for Aspnetpodcast.com. He is a moderator for Windows MarketPlace Newsgroups.
Anand also runs LearnXpress.com (www.learnxpress.com), Dotnetalbum.com (www.dotnetalbum.com), CsharpFAQ.com (www.csharpfaq.com) and Devreviews.com (www.devreviews.com). LearnXpress.com is a featured site at MSDN's Visual C# .NET communities section. Anand has won several prizes at Community-Credit.com and has been featured as "All Time" contributor at the site. He is one of the founders of Trivandrum Microsoft Usergroup. He regularly blogs under the banner "I type what I feel" at http://msmvps.com/blogs/anandn.
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