Stefan Hoenig has been working with the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) for the last eight years. Stefan is the original architect of Objective Grid. In 1995 Stefan licensed Objective Grid to Stingray Software and continued work on it at Stingray. Objective Grid was Stingray's flagship product. It is currently an industry standard grid class library for the MFC platform.

Stingray was acquired by Rogue Wave Software (NASDAQ:RWAV) in 1998. Stefan then worked with Stingray/Rogue Wave as a software architect until 1999. In 2000 Stefan decided to focus on .NET and ended up co-founding Syncfusion. Stefan's roots are in Munich, Germany where he grew up and later attended the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM).

George Shepherd has been programming Windows since the 2.0 days back in the late 80's. When MFC came out in the early 1990's, George co-authored the definitive reference for MFC, "MFC Internals" (1996 Addison-Wesley). During MFC's heyday as a powerful user interface development platform, "MFC Internals" was part of the canon for serious MFC developers.

George covers Web-based and Windows-based interface development with .NET as a contributing editor for MSDN magazine. He is also a co-author of "Applied .NET" (2001 Addison-Wesley) and "Programming Visual C++ .NET" (2002 Microsoft Press). When not writing about .NET or speaking at conferences, he works with Syncfusion to produce the best .NET tools around.