Mark Lavoie is the information system manager for a midsized insurance company located in Charlotte, North Carolina. Mark has worked with Microsoft products and technologies for nine years. He has worked as a consultant, managed IT projects, and designed and programmed custom applications. He is a native of Canada and, when not working, enjoys cooking and vacationing with his wonderful wife.

Todd Meister has been developing using Microsoft technologies for over ten years. He's been a technical editor for more than 40 titles, ranging from SQL Server to the .NET Framework. Besides technical editing, he is an assistant director for Computing Services at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. His latest development accomplishment was developing an e-commerce site from scratch, which included over 15,000 lines of .NET code, credit card integration, gift certificate functionality, and discount codes. He lives with his wife, Kimberly, and their four children in central Indiana. Contact Todd at [email protected].

Andrew Moore is a graduate of Purdue University-Calumet in Hammond, Indiana, and has been developing software since 1998 for radar systems, air traffic management, discrete-event simulation, and business communications applications using C, C++, C#, and Java on the Windows, UNIX, and Linux platforms. Andrew is the author of two Wrox Blox titles: "Create Amazing Custom User Interfaces with WPF, C#, and XAML in .NET 3.0" (www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/productCd-0470258713.html) and ".NET 3.5 CD Audio Player." He is currently working as a software engineer at Interactive Intelligence, Inc., in Indianapolis, Indiana, developing Microsoft-based applications for business communications. Andrew lives in Indiana with his wife, Barbara, and their two children, Sophia and Andrew.