About the Author

Mike Liu studied Mathematics and Software Engineering at Nanjing University and Brandeis University, where he graduated with a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree, respectively. He is a Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP), Microsoft Certified Solution Developer for Visual Studio 6.0, and Microsoft Certified Solution Developer for .NET. He has been working as a software engineer/architect on various platforms (DOS, Unix, and Windows) using C/C++, Java, VB/VB.NET, and C#.

Mike started using C# for production development back in the year 2001 when C# was still in beta stage, and he is now working as a senior software engineer for an investment management firm in Boston, Massachusetts, US.

Mike had his first book, MITT: Multi-user Integrated Table-processing Tool Under Unix, Beijing Hangtian University Press, published in 1993, and second book, Advanced C# Programming, Tsinghua University Press, published in 2003. The previous three versions of this book were published in 2008, 2010, and 2012.

Many thanks to the editors and technical reviewers at Packt Publishing. Without their help, this book wouldn't be of such high quality. Also, thanks to my wife, Julia, and to my two sons, Kevin and James, for their consideration and sacrifices while I was working on this book.