About the Authors

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!

Michel Bruchet works as an application architect 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 has more than 20 years of experience as a senior architect, working on complex projects in IT and development departments.

Michel has published several publications on the internet (SlideShare, LinkedIn, and more). He has worked for big companies in France, such as Sanofi, Pierre et Vacances – Center Parcs, Banque de France, BPCE, and BNP.

He is also the main driving force and mastermind behind the Ingenius Solution, which provides efficient e-business solutions to customers around the world.

I would like to thank my family for accepting that I had to work hard and, sometimes, until late into the night in my free time to write this book!