About the Author

Alessandro Del Sole is a Xamarin Certified Mobile Developer and has been a Microsoft MVP since 2008. Awarded MVP of the Year in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2014, he is internationally considered a Visual Studio expert and a .NET authority. Alessandro has authored many printed books and ebooks on programming with Visual Studio, including Visual Studio 2017 Succinctly, Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed, and Visual Studio Code Succinctly. He has written tons of technical articles about .NET, Visual Studio, and other Microsoft technologies in Italian and English for many developer portals, including MSDN Magazine and the Visual Basic Developer Center from Microsoft. He is a frequent speaker at Italian conferences, and he has released a number of Windows Store apps. He has also produced a number of instructional videos in both English and Italian. Alessandro works as a senior software engineer for Fresenius Medical Care, focusing on building mobile apps with Xamarin in the healthcare market. You can follow him on Twitter at @progalex.