About the Authors

Charlie Calvert is the Community Program Manager for the Microsoft C# team. While working on outreach and bridge building to both external and internal teams through the Web and live events, Charlie focuses his technical energies on LINQ and core C# language scenarios such as generics. He has degrees in Journalism and Computer Science from the Evergreen State College. The author of ten technical books that have sold more than 100,000 copies, Charlie currently lives in the Seattle area where he enjoys outdoor activities such as hiking, sailing, and skiing in the mountains.

Dinesh Kulkarni is a Senior Program Manager in the Microsoft .NET Developer Platform team working on framework support for multitier applications. Before that he worked on the LINQ project in the C# team from the incubation phase through the shipping of the first release with Visual Studio 2008. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, and B.Tech. from IIT Bombay, India. He has published extensively in technical journals and filed more than a dozen patents. He lives in the Seattle area and enjoys outdoor activities with his family.