About the Authors

Eugene Agafonov leads the Lingvo Live development department at ABBYY, and he lives and works in Moscow. He has over 15 years of professional experience in software development and has been working with C# ever since it was in beta version. He has been a Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET since 2006, and he often speaks at local software development conferences, such as DevCon Russia, about cutting-edge technologies in modern web and server-side application development. His main professional interests are cloud-based software architecture, scalability, and reliability. Eugene is a huge fan of football and plays the guitar with a local rock band. You can reach him at his personal blog at eugeneagafonov.com or his Twitter handle at @eugene_agafonov.

He also wrote Multithreading in C# 5.0 Cookbook by Packt Publishing.

Andrew Koryavchenko is a software developer and an architect who lives in Moscow, Russia. He is one of the founders of rsdn.ru—the largest Russian software developers' community portal.

His specialty is ERP systems and developer tools. He participated in ReSharper Visual Studio extension development, which is a well-known productivity tool for .NET developers. Currently, he is working on parsing and compilation tools for .NET development and also supports and develops the rsdn.ru portal.

Andrew regularly speaks at online and offline events and conferences dedicated to Microsoft technologies, and he publishes articles on software development topics. He also used to teach Enterprise Software Development course in Kuban State University.

Andrew has been a Microsoft MVP in C# since 2005.