About the Author

Alessandro Del Sole has been a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (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 Visual Basic and .NET authority.

Alessandro has authored many printed books and e-books on programming with Visual Studio, including Visual Studio 2017 Succinctly, Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed, Beginning Visual Studio for Mac, 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 from Microsoft. He has spoken at many Italian conferences and has released a number of mobile apps. He has also produced many instructional videos in both English and Italian.

Alessandro works as a senior software engineer, focusing on mobile apps in the healthcare market. You can follow him on Twitter at @progalex.

This book is dedicated to Angelica, the love of my life.