About the Authors

Steven A. Smith, Microsoft ASP.NET MVP, is president and owner of ASPAlliance.com, LLC, the #1 ASP.NET developer community, which provides articles, forums, listservs, and sample code for ASP and ASP.NET developers.  He is also the owner and head instructor for ASPSmith Ltd, a .NET-focused training company.  Steve speaks at several conferences each year and has written articles for MSDN and AspNetPRO magazines in addition to his first book, ASP.NET By Example.  Steve has a Master's degree in Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science Engineering.  When he isn't working, Steve enjoys swimming, biking, and computer games.  Steve lives in Ohio with his wife Michelle and daughter Ilyana.

Steve can be reached at ssmith@aspalliance.com.

Rob Howard is a Program Manager on the Microsoft ASP.NET Team and is responsible for features such as Caching, Session State, Error Handling, and the Http Runtime . He additionally runs and maintains the www.asp.net web site and is the lead developer on the ASP.NET Forums source project. Rob has written or contributed to several books on ASP.NET, and is also a frequent presenter at conferences and user groups. He can be reached at rhoward@microsoft.com.

The ASP Alliance Contributors

Brett Burridge

Brett Burridge is a Microsoft Certified Professional based in the United Kingdom. Since 1997, he has created websites and software applications for a range of public sector organisations, start up ventures and multinational companies. Brett has also written technical articles for ASPToday, ariadne.ac.uk and ASPAlliance.com. Brett's ASPAlliance column is at http://aspalliance.com/brettb/.

Robert Chartier

Robert Chartier has developed IT solutions for more than nine years with a diverse background in both software and hardware development. He is internationally recognized as an innovative thinker and leading IT architect with frequent speaking engagements showcasing his expertise. He's been an integral part of many open forums on cutting-edge technology, including the .NET Framework and Web Services. His current position as vice president of technology for Santra Technology (http://www.santra.com) has allowed him to focus on innovation within the Web Services market space.

He uses expertise with many Microsoft technologies, including .NET, and a strong background in Oracle, BEA Systems, Inc.'s BEA WebLogic, IBM, Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE), and similar technologies to support his award-winning writing. He frequently publishes to many of the leading developer and industry support Web sites and publications. He has a bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems.

Robert Chartier can be reached at rob@santra.com.

Jesudas Chinnathampi also known as Das, has been working with Active Server Pages since 1998. Currently he is working with Silicomm Corporation, http://silicomm.com. Das is also a member of the ASPElite, http://ASPElite.com, a select group of developers who help to manage the discussions at ASPFriends.com. Das started working with ASP.NET when its first beta was released.

Recently Das wrote chapters for two WROX books discussing working with ASP.NET and databases. You can view the details of his books at the following links:

co-author - Beginning ASP.NET Databases using VB.NET http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1861006195

co-author - Beginning ASP.NET Databases using C# http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1861007418

Also, Das has his own column at http://aspalliance.com/das/.

Das has a Masters Degree in Computer Application. During leisures, he enjoys driving, playing chess and watching games (Cricket, Basketball, Shuttle Badminton)

Jose Fuentes

Jose Fuentes likes to be thought of as a (do it guy) when others say it can't be done, he finds a way. This is a guy that goes to bed and wakes up in the middle of the night with answers to his problems. Jose lives in Tallahassee, FL with his wife and young boy. He specializes in windows application development using VB.Net though he also handles all the ASP.Net they can throw at him. He has worked in the development field for 6 years professionally but has been in hobby developer since he was 12 using GWBasic and many more. When he's not spending endless amounts of time developing, you can find him playing with his family. Other activities include computer art, his favorite piece that he has done so far is (visualize) a big computer monitor (LCD or plasma) hanging on the wall. It then experiences mans rage and has a keyboard shoved though the screen, leaving all it's circuits exposed and flashes here and there and broken glass, keys popping out. Very abstract art, using many old motherboards and broken glass and all. His favorite motto is "if it can't be done, you haven't tried hard enough".

He can be reached at dark7622@yahoo.com

Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett is the Head of Technology for one of the larger european new media agencies, working with some of the worlds best known brands helping them develop web and interactive TV strategies. Chris started his obsession with programming when at around the age of ten he started learning BASIC on his Commodore VIC-20. The addiction has never been kicked and since 1994 has concentrated on the Internet, most recently using ASP.NET. When Chris isn't hunched over a computer screen or talking someones ear off about some new technology, he tries very hard to have a real life with his wife Clare, his daughter Amy and two overweight cats.

David Gottlieb is a web developer for EBSCO Subsidiary Web Services, a subsidiary of EBSCO Industries, Inc. in Birmingham, Alabama. His primary skills are ASP.NET with C#, Microsoft Commerce Server 2002, Microsoft Content Management Server 2002, Classic ASP and a little VB. He is an ASP Alliance columnist, a member of the AspElite at http://www.aspelite.com, and is a moderator of the ASP.NET Forums at www.asp.net.

Other books by David Gottlieb: Co-Author: ASP.NET Components Toolkit - Wrox Press - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1861008023

Thomas Johansen

Thomas Johansen is a young and promising developer from Norway. He has been programming since the age of 12 when he made simple programs using Basic. For the past 2 years Thomas has been developing windows and web applications using the .NET framework. He is skilled in ASP, VBScript, JScript, C, C++, Java, C#, ASP.NET, GDI+ and Web Services. Developing custom controls for use in ASP.NET applications is one of things he enjoys the most. Thomas is frequently answering developers at the official ASP.NET forums, and he has a column at ASP Alliance where he posts his articles. Thomas can be reached at aylar@aspalliance.com.

Thomas can be reached at aylar@aspalliance.com.

Sreedhar Koganti is a Microsoft Certified Professional from Falls Church, VA. He has several years of experience in developing and implementing applications for Microsoft platforms as a consultant and author. He also teaches Microsoft technologies and has a free educational site (www.w3coder.com) that contains .NET-related content.  He may be contacdted at SreedharK@AspElite.com.

Colt Kwong

Colt Kwong is a Microsoft MVP and addict in anything about *.NET*.  He's one of the Top 25 posters at the Microsoft Official ASP.NET Forums. He is also an ASP.NET Forums Moderator, guest speaker in Microsoft Hong Kong TechEd 2002 and freelancer for Microsoft HK.  He's in the Winner's Circle for Microsoft's Asia Student.NET Online Challenge, earning perfect scores in Visual Studio.NET Advanced, Visual Studio.NET Intermediate, and Visual Studio.NET Basics.  He has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science.

He co-authored a book for Wrox in Jan 2003: Beginning Dynamic Web Sites with Web Matrix and he can be reached at Colt@mvps.org.

Bjørn Lyngwa

Bjørn is a young developer hailing from Norway. He is self-taught, but hopes for admittance to Queensland University of Technology where he wishes to achieve the Bachelor of IT degree. In the here-and-now he is sporadically writing articles for his column at the ASPAlliance.

H.R. Malik

H.R.Malik is from Lahore, Pakistan. He has been working with ASP.NET since its Beta 2 version. He has a Master's degree in Computer Sciences with specialization in E-Commerce. He is also an MCP. He is a member columnist of the ASP Alliance team and regularly writes technical articles related to ASP.NET/SQL Server 2000.

Haroon has been teaching computer courses for the last 2 years and is now acting as a course instructor for the certification course of Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD), at Infologix Institute of Technology, Lahore. Previously he has worked as a Web Administrator, Database Operator and Assistant Network Administrator.

Haroon enjoys his free time reviewing books, testing new technologies or surfing the Internet for R&D.

Andrew Mooney

Andrew Mooney is a software developer from Illinois. He specializes in web development using Microsoft database technologies, especially SQL Server 2000 and Access 2000. He holds all of the Brainbench BCIP certifications, incuding Web Developer Database, Web Developer Client-Side, and Web Developer Server-Side.

Tim Musschoot

Tim Musschoot is a Jr. Software Engineer from Roeselare, Belgium. During his studies at the University of Ghent, he got interested in software engineering. He started working as a freelancer in 1998. At first, he was a Visual C++ developer, but the interest in ASP came very soon after that. Especially the possibility of extending application usability by adding a webbased interface increased this interest even further. After being a betatester for Lernout & Hauspie (L&H), he signed up for the Visual Studio .NET betatesting program in 2000, and came in touch with .NET. About 18 months ago Tim joined the AspFriends lists and a couple of months later he started writing articles related to web development (aspnl.com, aspalliance.com). Since 2002, he's also an active participant of the AspFriends community and a member of the AspElite team.

Daniel Olson

Daniel Olson is the principal software designer for trading operations at Barbnet, an investment company in Fort Worth, TX. He has been developing applications in .Net since the beta version. Before that he developed applications in Java.

Philip is from Christchurch, New Zealand and has been deeply immersed in the world of programming for a number of years. Starting from BASIC and working his way up through VB, VBScript and now VB.NET and C++. He specializes in ASP and ASP.NET development (with VBScript and VB.NET).

Aside from programming he also spends too much time playing various games and exploring graphic design.

Chris Rickard

Chris is an independent software engineer living and working as a full time employee in Annapolis, Maryland. Chris has more than 16 years of development experience building web, n-tier, mobile and client server database applications. When he is not glued to the computer, you'll find him hanging out with his wife and two kids, playing fantasy football and hockey or pretending to be a real hockey player on some of Central Maryland's ice rinks.

Steve Sharrock is president of Stephen Sharrock Consulting, Inc. (http://www.sharkcode.com). Steve is a veteran software developer with over twenty years of experience and has been writing Web applications and Web Services using the .NET platform since the early beta days in 2000. Steve is a member of several developer community organizations including AspAlliance, AspElite, SDForum and his local CUG user groups. Steve lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. When he is not involved with his consulting business or speaking at a local user group, Steve is an avid inline skater and can usually be found on the skating trails around his community.

Jeff Widmer

Jeff Widmer is Lead Developer for the Xbox.com web site (http://www.xbox.com) where he works with Microsoft Content Management Server 2002, Microsoft Commerce Server 2002, and the .NET Framework to produce an international web site that receives over 4 million page views per month. Jeff has been working with VB.NET, C#, and ASP.NET since the first Beta was released in 2000. He is a Microsoft Certified Application Developer for .NET and a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer. Jeff currently lives in Kirkland, Washington with his beautiful wife Jill. He can be reached at jwidmer@aspalliance.com or at his web site at http://www.jeffreywidmer.com.

Paul Wilson

Paul Wilson is a software architect in Atlanta, currently with a medical device company. He specializes in Microsoft technologies, including .NET, C#, ASP, SQL, COM+, and VB. His WilsonWebForm Control allows Multiple Forms and Non-PostBack Forms in ASP.NET. He is a Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET and is also recognized as an ASPFriend's ASPAce/ASPElite. He is a moderator on Microsoft's ASP.NET Forums, as well as one of the top posters. He is certified in .NET (MCAD), as well as also holding the MCSD, MCDBA, and MCSE. Please visit his website, www.WilsonDotNet.com, or email him at Paul@WilsonDotNet.com.

Remas Wojciechowski

Remas Wojciechowski had his first computing experience with a ZX Spectrum when he typed "10 LET A = 3". Although he has a degree in business administration, he now devotes a large part of his professional life to (ASP).NET development. Currently he works for Bayer AG in Leverkusen, Germany, and is responsible for new technologies in the group's corporate finance. In his spare time (less and less) he writes articles (way too few) for his aspalliance.com column. Remas is a Polish national but he has lived in Germany since 1994.

Jeremy Zongker

Jeremy Zongker is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer for Microsoft .NET (MCSD.NET) and a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE). He is the founder and president of Trilitech, LLC (www.trilitech.com), a web design, development and hosting company. In addition Jeremy has written articles for AspAlliance (www.aspalliance.com/jzongker) and CSharp Today (www.csharptoday.com). He has been programming on his own for over ten years and professionally for the last three. He has been working almost exclusively with Asp.Net since July of 2001. Jeremy is currently working as a Software Developer III at one of Oklahoma's largest banks. He lives in Broken Arrow, OK with his lovely wife Jeanette and beautiful daughter Katrina.

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