Marco Bellinaso is a partner of Code Architects Srl, an Italian company that specializes in consulting, mentoring, development and training for the Microsoft platform. He works as a senior consultant and developer, and has a particular interest in all web-things. He focuses in designing and implementing large websites with a variety of Microsoft products and technologies, including SharePoint 2003, MCMS, and of course ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005. He's been working with the .NET Framework since the Beta 1 on applications of all types, including Web Services, Windows Forms and Windows Services. He is also an author or co-author for a number of commercial tools for developers, such as the award-winning VBMaximizer add-in, CodeBox for .NET and FormMaximizer for .NET. Before the .NET-era Marco was a hardcode VB developer who specialized in Windows programming with advanced, low-level API techniques, as well as a COM and ASP developer.Prior to this book, Marco was a co-author for a number of other Wrox Press books, among which are Fast Track ASP.NET, Visual C# .NET: a Guide for VB6 Developers, Beginning C#, and the previous edition of this book for ASP.NET 1.1. He also frequently writes for programming magazines such as MSDN Magazine, MSDN Online, Visual Studio Magazine, and other Italian magazines such as Computer Programming and Visual Basic & .NET Journal. He is one of the principal developers and editors behind www.dotnet2themax.com, a popular website for .NET developers which was born from the even more famous www.vb2themax.com site for VB6. Besides writing he also does quite a lot of public speaking (both in English and Italian) at some of the most important Italian conferences organized by Microsoft Italy and other big companies.If you want to contact Marco to talk about the book, about beer and pubs, or about work-related questions, please use the form on his site (www.dotnet2themax.com) or his blog (www.dotnet2themax.com/blogs/mbellinaso).