About the Reviewers

Atul Gupta is currently a Principal Technology Architect at Infosys' Microsoft Technology Center, Infosys Labs. With more than 16 years of experience working on Microsoft technologies, his expertise spans User Interface technologies, and he currently works on touch and gestural interfaces with technologies such as Windows 8 and Kinect. He has prior experience on Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Silverlight, Windows 7, Deepzoom, Pivot, PixelSense, and Windows Phone 7.

He has co-authored the book ASP.NET 4 Social Networking, Packt Publishing. Earlier in his career, he has also worked on technologies such as COM, DCOM, C, VC++, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, AJAX, and ASP.NET MVC. He is a regular reviewer for Packt Publishing and has reviewed books on topics such as Silverlight and Generics.

He has authored papers for industry publications and websites, some of which are available on Infosys' Technology Showcase (http://www.infosys.com/microsoft/resource-center/pages/technology-showcase.aspx). Along with his colleagues from Infosys, he is also an active blogger (http://www.infosysblogs.com/microsoft). Being actively involved in professional Microsoft online communities and developer forums, he has received Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional award for multiple years in a row.

Anoop Madhusudanan has been a Microsoft MVP in C# for the last 3 years and has more than 10 years of experience with Microsoft technologies. Presently, he is working as a Solution Architect with the Cloud & Mobile Center of Excellence, Marlabs Inc. He works across multiple Microsoft technologies and platforms including Windows 8, ASP.NET, Windows Azure, and so on, across domains including education, healthcare, and telecom.

He blogs at http://amazedsaint.com and is the developer of various open source frameworks such as BrainNet Neural Network Library, ElasticObject, SilverDraw, MetaCoder, and so on. He is also an active contributor to CodeProject. His Twitter handle is @amazedsaint.

Atul Verma is a Technical Consultant at Microsoft Services Global Delivery and is a graduate from NIT, Hamirpur. He has been developing enterprise-level secure and scalable solutions using agile software methodologies for the past seven years. His technical expertise includes WPF, ASP.NET, WCF, SharePoint, Dynamics CRM, and Kinect for Windows. Apart from this, he also contributes to technical communities, technical seminars, open source projects, and blogs. He is currently studying the essence of Indian culture and loves to spend quality time with his family. You can follow him on Twitter at @verma_atul.