Alessandro Del Sole, a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Visual Basic since 2008, is well known throughout the global VB community. He is a community leader on the Italian Visual Basic Tips and Tricks website (http://www.visual-basic.it) that serves more than 42,000 VB developers, as well as a frequent contributor to the MSDN Visual Basic Developer Center. He enjoys writing articles on .NET development, writing blog posts on both his Italian and English blogs, and producing instructional videos as well as apps for Windows 8 and Windows Phone. You can find him online in forums or newsgroups. Alessandro has been awarded MVP of the Year for Visual Basic in 2009, 2010, and 2011.