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Bill Wagner

With more than 25 years of experience in software design and engineering, Bill Wagner has led the design of many successful engineering and enterprise Microsoft Windows products and adapted legacy systems for Windows. An early adopter of .NET, Bill now spends his time facilitating the adoption of .NET in clients’ product and enterprise development. Knowledgeable in all .NET areas, Bill’s principal strengths include the C# language, the core framework, Smart Clients, and Service Oriented Architecture and design.

In addition to his role at SRT Solutions, Bill serves as Michigan's Regional Director for Microsoft. In 2005, Microsoft awarded him C# Most Valuable Professional (MVP) status. These honorary positions allow Bill previews of upcoming technologies and offer SRT clients the most advanced and cutting-edge solutions for their technology projects.

An internationally recognized author on the C# language evolution, Smart Clients, and enterprise design, Bill has been a contributing editor, editorial board member, and regular columnist for over a decade with his tutorials and advanced essays published in MSDN Magazine, MSDN Online, .NET Insight, and .NET DJ. He also writes a monthly column for Visual Studio Magazine and a monthly column on the MSDN C# team developer center.

Bill earned his B.S. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.

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1.	"The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got" with Bill Wagner Jul 5, 2012
2.	Building Dynamic Systems with Expressions in .NET Jul 29, 2010
3.	Effective C# Item 42: Understand How to Make Use of the Expression API Mar 25, 2010
4.	Effective C# Item 34: Avoid Overloading Methods Defined in Base Classes Mar 17, 2010
5.	More Effective C#: Item 29: Enhance Constructed Types with Extension Methods Oct 27, 2008
6.	More Effective C#: Item 13: Use lock() As Your First Choice for Synchronization Oct 20, 2008
7.	More Effective C#: Item 44: Prefer Storing Expression<> to Func<> Oct 13, 2008
8.	More Effective C#: Item 36: Understand How Query Expressions Map to Method Calls Oct 9, 2008
9.	Bill Wagner on C#, LINQ, and Writing Books Oct 6, 2008
10.	Item 19: Prefer Defining and Implementing Interfaces to Inheritance Dec 3, 2004

1.	OnSoftware (Audio + Video): C# Puzzlers: An Overview with Bill Wagner May 29, 2012
2.	OnSoftware (Audio + Video): C# Puzzlers: Default Parameters and Overrides May 29, 2012
3.	OnSoftware (Audio + Video): C# Puzzlers: Overloading Base Class Methods May 29, 2012
4.	OnMicrosoft (Video + Audio): Microsoft PDC 2009 - Bill Wagner Dec 7, 2009

Bill Wagner

1.		C# Puzzlers (Video Training) By Bill Wagner $55.99
2.		Effective C# (Covers C# 4.0): 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#, 2nd Edition By Bill Wagner $35.99
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