About the Authors

Jeff Martin is a long-time technology enthusiast and has been a contributing writer for InfoQ (www.infoq.com) for over two years, focusing on .NET and Microsoft-based platforms. Having experience in writing, testing, and designing software, he enjoys learning about new technologies and explaining them to a broader audience.

Readers are encouraged to follow @VSDevTips on Twitter to receive updates on the book as well as news for getting the most out of Visual Studio.

Richard Banks has developed software for the last 20 years for a wide range of industries and development platforms. Over the years he has played many roles including that of a developer, team lead, project manager, and CIO/CTO. He is a Professional Scrum Trainer, runs the Sydney ALT.NET user group and the Talking Shop Down Under podcast. He owns and contributes to a few open source projects, and has spoken at Microsoft TechEd and a number of other events and user groups around Australia. For some strange reason, he gets a real kick out of helping development teams to improve and produce great software. If you want to get in touch, he tweets at @rbanks54 and blogs at http://www.richard-banks.org/. He currently works as a Principal Consultant for Readify and is a Microsoft Visual Studio ALM MVP.