Peter DeBetta started programming at the age of ten and eventually turned this pastime into a career. He continued writing software until he attended college, where he switched his computer passions to graphic design. Peter studied linguistics during his four year undergraduate stay at Bucknell University and eventually applied his human language concepts back into his computer programming.

After graduating from Bucknell in 1990, Peter began his career as a mathematics teacher in a private college preparatory school. Shortly thereafter, he fell back into software programming and combined the two passions of his life to begin teaching Access and Visual Basic (version 2.0) programming and has been teaching both ever since. Peter acquired other computing skills along the way including Java, ASP, VBScript, JavaScript, and his now true love, SQL Server and Transact-SQL.

Peter now teaches, consults and develops enterprise level software solutions, primarily with Visual Basic, ASP and SQL Server. He also recently co-developed a product that fully automated the process of converting still images into video, requiring his database, programming and graphic design skills.

During his career, Peter coauthored several books, including SQL Server Programming Unleashed and ADO/RDS Programming with ASP. He has been sited at conferences around the world, including: VSLive! In Sydney, Australia; European Windows programming conference (WinSummit) in Davos, Switzerland; WinDev West in San Jose, CA; and Wrox WebDev conferences in London, England and Washington, DC.

Peter recently moved to Dallas, TX with his new wife and is enjoying married life. He sings and plays acoustic guitar and has co-written several songs. Peter also acts and sings on stage and has recently been in a couple of local stage productions including Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and the musical Cinderella. Peter is also an amateur photographer and works in both 35mm film and digital mediums.

Rob Howard is a Program Manager on the Microsoft ASP.NET team. He has contributed to ASP.NET features such as Session State, Web Services, and Caching as well as many of the new features coming in ASP.NET 2.0. Rob is also a community lead/evangelist for ASP.NET and works closely with groups such as the ASPInsiders, Microsoft MVPs, and community User Groups to continuously grow ASP.NET developer resources. He additionally is a frequent presenter at conferences, and has recently contributed to books such as Microsoft ASP.NET Coding Strategies with the Microsoft ASP.NET Team from Microsoft Press and the ASP.NET Developer's Cookbook from SAMs. You can contact Rob at rhoward@microsoft.com.

Jeff Prosise makes his living programming Microsoft .NET teaching others how to do the same. His latest book, Programming Microsoft .NET , was published by Microsoft Press in May 2002. His previous book, Programming Windows with MFC , has won awards for readability and is widely considered to be the definitive work on MFC programming.

A former engineer who discovered after college that programming is immeasurably more fun than designing lifting fixtures and computing loads on mounting brackets, today Jeff travels the world teaching ASP.NET programming and enlightening conference audiences about the new platform. He works closely with Microsoft developers in Redmond, WA, to track the development of the .NET Framework. Jeff is a contributing editor to MSDN Magazine , where he writes feature articles about Microsoft .NET and authors the Wicked Code column, and to asp.netPRO magazine, where he writes the monthly Ask the PRO column. And in 2000, Jeff cofounded Wintellect to provide .NET consulting and education services to developers everywhere.

In his off-time, Jeff enjoys spending time with his wife and three kids, attending church, going scuba diving, playing softball, and jamming with garage bands. During his quieter moments, he dreams of playing baseball for the Atlanta Braves and playing guitar like Stevie Ray Vaughan. But in his heart, he realizes that writing code is the next best thing.

Brent Rector is president and founder of Wise Owl Consulting with over two decades experience in software development. Brent has designed and implementing operating systems as well as new computer programming languages and their compilers. He is the author and co-author of numerous Windows programming books, including ATL Internals and Win32 Programming. Brent is also the author of Demeanor for .NET -- the premier code obfuscator for .NET applications.