About the Authors

Krzysztof Cwalina is a program manager on the Common Language Runtime team at Microsoft. He started his career at Microsoft designing APIs for the first release of the .NET Framework. He has been responsible for several namespaces in the Framework, including System.Collections, System.Diagnostics, System.Messaging, and others. He was also one of the original members of the FxCop team. Currently, he is leading a companywide effort to develop, promote, and apply the design guidelines to the .NET Framework and WinFX. Krzysztof graduated with a B.S. and an M.S. in computer science from the University of Iowa.

Brad Abrams was a founding member of both the Common Language Runtime and .NET Framework teams at Microsoft Corporation, where ...

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