BEGINNING
C# 7 Programming
with Visual Studio
®
2017
Benjamin Perkins
Jacob Vibe Hammer
Jon D. Reid
Beginning C# 7 Programming with Visual Studio
®
2017
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
BENJAMIN PERKINS (MBA, MCSD, ITIL) is currently employed at Microsoft in Munich, Germany,
as a Senior Escalation Engineer. He has been working professionally in the IT industry for over two
decades. He started computer programming with QBasic at the age of 11 on an Atari 1200XL desk-
top computer. He takes pleasure in the challenges that troubleshooting technical issues has to offer
and savors the rewards of a well-written program. After completing high school he joined the United
States Army. After successfully completing his military service, he attended Texas A&M University
in College Station, Texas, where he received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Management
Information Systems.
His roles in the IT industry have spanned the entire spectrum including programmer, system
architect, technical support engineer, team leader, and mid-level management. While employed at
Hewlett-Packard, he received numerous awards, degrees, and certications. He has a passion for
technology and customer service and looks forward to troubleshooting and writing more world-
class technical solutions.
“My approach is to write code with support in mind, and to write it once correctly and completely
so we do not have to come back to it again, except to enhance it.”
Benjamin is married to Andrea and has two wonderful children, Lea and Noa.
JACOB VIBE HAMMER helps develop solutions for the health care industry as a Senior Software
Engineer at Systematic in Denmark. He started programming just about the time when he was able
to spell the word “BASIC”—which, incidentally, is the rst programming language he ever used.
Since then, he has worked with numerous programming languages and solution architectures;
however, since the turn of the century, he has worked primarily with the .NET platform. Today,
his programming time is spent working primarily with C# and WPF, as well as toying with NoSQL
databases. A Danish citizen, Jacob lives in Aarhus, Denmark, with his wife and two sons.
JON D. REID is a Product Solution Manager for IFS Field Service Management (www.IFSWORLD
.com
). He has coauthored a number of books, including Beginning Visual C# 2015, Fast Track C#,
Pro Visual Studio .NET, and many others.
ABOUT THE TECHNICAL EDITOR
JOHN MUELLER is a freelance author and technical editor. He has writing in his blood, having pro-
duced 108 books and more than 600 articles to date. The topics range from networking to articial
intelligence and from database management to heads-down programming. Some of his current
books include topics such as Python for beginners, Python for data scientists, and Amazon Web
Services. He has also written about algorithms and machine learning. His technical editing skills
have helped more than 70 authors rene the content of their manuscripts. John has provided
technical editing services to a number of computing magazines. Be sure to read John’s blog at
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