About the Author

Patrice Pelland

Patrice Pelland is a technical lead at Microsoft working in the Developer Division. He loves .NET and Web services and, for the past four years, he has been working, teaching, evangelizing, and talking about them to everyone.

For the past twelve years, he has been working in software development in various roles: developer, project lead, manager and mentor, and software engineer in QA organizations. He has vast experience spanning multiple technologies and fields: developer tools, fiber optics telecommunication, aviation, coffee and dairy companies, and also three years teaching computer science and software development at a college in Canada.

When not developing great tools for developers and helping customers throughout ...

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