About the Authors

DANIELE BOCHICCHIO is the cofounder of 5DLabs.it, a consulting agency specializing in ASP.NET, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, and .NET Framework. He has worked on a lot of cool projects with many different technologies. Daniele is a well-known speaker and author, and you can find him at the main developer-focused events worldwide. He has also written several books, in both Italian and English. He’s the coauthor of Manning’s Entity Framework 4 in Action. Daniele is the network manager of ASPItalia.com, the largest Italian .NET Framework community. He currently lives in southern Italy with his family. You can reach him via his personal website at www.bochicchio.com/. Daniele shares his thoughts in 140 characters or less at http://twitter.com/dbochicchio/.

STEFANO MOSTARDA is a Microsoft MVP in the Data Platform category. He’s a software architect focused on web applications and the cofounder of 5DLabs.it, a consulting agency specialized in ASP.NET, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, and .NET Framework. Stefano is a professional speaker at many important Italian conferences and a well-known author. He has written many books for the Italian market and is the lead author of Manning’s Entity Framework 4 in Action. He’s also one of the leaders of the ASPItalia.com Network and a content manager of the LINQItalia.com website dedicated to LINQ and Entity Framework. In addition to visiting his blog, you can read his technical deliriums at http://twitter.com/sm15455/.