About the Authors

CHRIS PEIRIS (MVP, MIT, BComp, BBus-Accounting) currently works for Avanade Australia as a solutions architect. Chris is an avid publisher and a thought leader in the application integration space. He is a frequent speaker at professional developer conferences on Microsoft technologies. In fact, he has been awarded the title Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for his contributions to .NET technologies by Microsoft. Chris has been designing and architecting Microsoft IT solutions since 1995. He is an expert in developing scalable, high- performance integration solutions for financial institutions, G2G, B2B, and media groups. Chris has written many articles, reviews, and columns for various online publications including 15Seconds, Wrox (Apress), and Developer Exchange (DevX). He has also coauthored several books on web services, UDDI, C#, IIS, Java, and security topics. These include C# Web Services, C# for Java Programmers, MCSA/MCSE Managing and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Environment, and Managing and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Environment for an MCSA Certified on Windows 2000. Chris's current passions include WCF, IBM Message Broker, and EAI. He lives with his family in Conder, Australian Capital Territory, in Australia. He can be reached at http://www.chrispeiris.com.

DENNIS MULDER (MCSD, MCDBA) is senior principal consultant and solution manager with Avanade Netherlands and started his career in 1997. Since the beginning, he has dedicated himself to Microsoft technology. When the first betas of Microsoft .NET were released, he knew he made a good choice. As an early adopter of Microsoft technology, he has kept pace in the certification challenges and succeeded in getting several of his certifications in beta stage. Although Dennis has a broad range of experience on the Microsoft platform, in particular in web and database technology, his current focus is on service orientation, enterprise integration, and software factories. As a consultant he is working with enterprise customers to solve their challenges by leveraging the power of the Microsoft platform, usually in the role of architect and/or team lead. Dennis frequently publishes articles in Microsoft .NET Magazine (Dutch) and other (online) places. He is also an Ineta speaker and frequently speaks at Dutch Microsoft conferences and user groups. You can reach Dennis through his blog at http://www.dennismulder.net.

SHAWN CICORIA (MCT, MCSD, MCDBA) is a financial services industry solutions architect with Avanade (www.avanade.com), living with his family in Denville, New Jersey. He has an MBA in finance and information systems and a BA in economics. Shawn is also an MCT training instructor with SetFocus (http://www.setfocus.com), located in Parsippany, New Jersey. He has been working in systems for nearly 20 years mostly in financial services. Shawn has worked on many platforms including VMS, Unix variants, and for most of the past decade Microsoft Windows. He has focused on distributed technologies such as COM+, J2EE, and (for the past five years) .NET, SOAP, BizTalk, database technologies, and now .NET 3.0. You can reach him via his blog at http://www.Cicoria.com.

AMIT BAHREE is a senior solutions architect with Avanade with a degree in computer science and several years of experience in IT (more than he will admit), developing and designing mission-critical systems. His background is a mixture of product development, embedded systems, and custom solutions across both the public and private sectors. He has experience in a wide range of industry verticals including finan- cial services, healthcare, defense, utilities, and insurance, and he has implemented solutions for many Fortune 100 companies. For Amit, computers are a passion first, a hobby second, and a career third, and he is glad he gets paid to do what he loves. Amit lives in London. You can contact him via his blog at http://www.desigeek.com.

NISHITH PATHAK is a budding solutions architect and a .NET purist who has been working on the .NET platform since its early beta days. Nishith was born, raised, and educated in a town called Kotdwara in Uttaranchal, India. Nishith has worked with companies such as Accenture and Avanade as an expert solution developer. His expertise is in delivering enterprise solutions to Fortune 100 companies spanning the globe. He is a contributing author and an avid technical reviewer for multiple electronic and print publications. Over the years, he has also been involved in providing consultancy and training services to corporations. You can contact him at [email protected] or visit his blog at http://DotNetPathak.blogspot.com.