Andrew Troelsen is a partner, trainer, and consultant at Intertech Inc., and is a leading authority on both .NET and COM. His book Pro C# 2005 and the .NET 2.0 Platform won the prestigious 2003 Referenceware Excellence Award and is in its third edition. Also of note are his earlier five-star treatment of traditional COM in the bestselling Developer's Workshop to COM and ATL mirrored in his book, COM and .NET Interoperability, and his top-notch investigation of VB .NET in Visual Basic .NET and the .NET Platform: An Advanced Guide. Troelsen has a degree in mathematical linguistics and South Asian studies from the University of Minnesota, and is a frequent speaker at numerous .NET-related conferences. He currently lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Amanda, and spends his free time investigating .NET and waiting for the Wild to win the Stanley Cup. You can check out his blog at AndrewTroelsen.blogspot.com.
* The Philosophy of NET * Building C# Applications * Core C# Programming Constructs, Part I * Core C# Programming Constructs, Part II * Defining Encapsulated Class Types * Understanding Inheritance and Polymorphism * Understanding Structured Exception Handling * Understanding Object Lifetime * Working with Interfaces * Understanding Generics * Delegates, Events, and Lambdas * Advanced C# Language Features * LINQ to Objects * Configuring NET Assemblies * Type Reflection, Late Binding, and Attribute-Based Prog * Processes, AppDomains, and Object Contexts * Understanding CIL and the Role of Dynamic Assemblies * Dynamic Types and the Dynamic Language Runtime * Multithreaded and Parallel Programming * File I/O and Object Serialization * ADO.NET Part I: The Connected Layer * ADO.NET Part II: The Disconnected Layer * ADO.NET Part III: The Entity Framework * Introducing LINQ to XML * Introducing Windows Communication Foundation * Introducing Windows Workflow Foundation 40 * Introducing Windows Presentation Foundation and XAML * Programming with WPF Controls * WPF Graphics Rendering Services * WPF Resources, Animations, and Styles * WPF Control Templates and UserControls * Building ASP.NET Web Pages * ASP.NET Web Controls, Master Pages and Theme * ASP.NET State Management Techniques