About the Reviewers

Alon Fliess is the chief architect and founder of CodeValue. CodeValue is the home of software experts. CodeValue builds software tools, foundations, and products for the software industry and offers mentoring, consulting, and project development services.

Alon got his BSc degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology. He is an expert on many Microsoft technologies, be it Windows client and server programming using C#/C++/.NET, Windows Azure Cloud Computing, or Windows internals. Microsoft has recognized his expertise and community activities and granted him two awards: Microsoft Regional Director (MRD) and a VC++ MVP.

Alon has deep knowledge and understanding of Windows and Windows Internals. He is a co-author of Windows 7 Microsoft Training Program as well as a co-author of the Introducing Windows 7 for Developers book (ISBN-10: 0735626820)

Alon delivers courses and lectures in many seminars and conferences around the world, such as TechEd Europe, TechEd USA, NDC, and in Israel. Alon is a senior Software Architect; he deals with vast and complex projects. Alon architected and designed the software for the revolutionary new line of industrial printing machine of Landa Labs. He is also the architect of one of the largest software project of the Israeli Air Force. Alon is responsible for several open-source projects.

Many thanks to Pavel and Yashodhan, who gave me the opportunity to take part in the creation of this book.

Ariel Ben Horesh is a well-known .NET expert, team leader, and community leader.

With more than 10 years of experience in the software industry, Ariel now works at CodeValue, a company he co-founded, where he creates products for developers, and consults and conducts courses around the world on UI development: WPF/SL, Web, Mobile, and UI architecture.

You can visit his blog at: http://arielbh.com

Stas Shteinbook is a senior development leader and solution architect who works at CodeValue. He has a long history in developing large enterprise applications, guiding their architecture and developing process, and creating end-to-end solutions involving rich user experience interfaces using WPF technology.

I would like to thank my family, my mother Ludmila and my father Zinoviy, for all the help and support.

Dan Vestergaard is currently working as a software engineer, with primary focus on .NET, and in particular, developing user interfaces using WPF.

He has worked in the consultant business and for several years in financial and industrial businesses. He is now a software engineer in a large world-wide industrial company, writing WPF applications for factory quality control systems.

He started working with WPF in the early beta days, back in 2006, and has loved it ever since.