About the Reviewers

Jason De Oliveira works as a CTO for MEGA International (http://www.mega.com), a software company in Paris (France), providing modeling tools for business transformation, enterprise architecture, and enterprise governance, risk, and compliance management. He is an experienced manager and senior solutions architect, with high skills in software architecture and enterprise architecture.

He loves sharing his knowledge and experience via his blog, speaking at conferences, writing technical books, writing articles in the technical press, giving software courses as MCT, and coaching co-workers in his company. He frequently collaborates with Microsoft and can often be found at the Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) in Paris.

Microsoft has awarded him for more than 6 years with the Microsoft? Most Valuable Professional (MVP C#/.NET) award for his numerous contributions to the Microsoft community. Microsoft seeks to recognize the best and brightest from technology communities around the world with the MVP Award. These exceptional and highly respected inpiduals come from more than 90 countries, serving their local online and offline communities and having an impact worldwide.

Feel free to contact him via his blog if you need any technical assistance or want to talk about technical subjects (http://www.jasondeoliveira.com).

Jason has worked on the following books:

• .NET 4.5 Expert Programming Cookbook (English)
• WCF 4.5 Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ to Entities (English)
• .NET 4.5 Parallel Extensions Cookbook (English)
• WCF Multi-layer Services Development with Entity Framework (English)
• Visual Studio 2013: Concevoir, développer et gérer des projets Web, les gérer avec TFS 2013 (French)

I would like to thank my lovely wife, Orianne, and my beautiful daughters, Julia and Léonie, for supporting me in my work and for accepting long days and short nights during the week, and, sometimes, even during the weekend. My life would not be the same without them!

Alvin Ashcraft is a software developer living near Philadelphia, PA. He has dedicated his 22-year career to building software with C#, Visual Studio, WPF, ASP.NET, HTML/JavaScript, UWP, and Xamarin apps and SQL Server. He has been awarded as a Microsoft MVP nine times; once for Software Architecture, seven times for C# and Visual Studio & Tools, and for Windows Dev in 2018-2019. You can read his daily links for .NET developers on his blog at alvinashcraft.com and UWP App Tips blog at www.uwpapp.tips.

He currently works as a Principal Software Engineer for Allscripts, developing clinical healthcare software. He has previously been employed with several large software companies, including Oracle, Genzeon, and Corporation Service Company. There, he helped create software solutions for financial, business, and healthcare organizations using Microsoft platforms and solutions.

He was a technical reviewer for NuGet 2 Essentials and Mastering ASP.NET Core 2.0 by Packt.

I would like to thank my wonderful wife, Stelene, and our three amazing daughters for their support. They were very understanding while I read and reviewed these chapters on evenings and weekends to help deliver a useful, high-quality book for the ASP.NET Core developers.