Bill Wagner (software)
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Bill Wagner is an American software developer and author, known for his involvement in the C# programming language.[1]
Early life
[edit]Wagner received a B.S. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[1] He was a self-employed consultant for eight years before joining with Dianne Marsh to cofound SRT Solutions, an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based software development company, in 1999.[2] Wagner won an Automation Alley Emerging Technology Leader award in 2011.[1]
Career and Contributions
[edit]Wagner is known primarily for .Net development work, particularly C#. He is the author of several books, including Effective C# (now in its second edition, 2010) and More Effective C# (2004).[1] Wagner has written a number of articles appearing in MSDN Magazine, the C# Developer Center, Visual C++ Developer's Journal, Visual Studio Magazine, ASP.NET Pro Magazine, .NET Developer's Journal, as well as technical articles for software developers.[1] Wagner wrote a set of programming idioms for C#.[3]
Wagner has stated that he has been involved with C# since public betas for C# 1.0 were released. Prior to that time, Wagner had worked with C++ and Java.[4]
Wagner was appointed Microsoft regional director for Michigan in 2003, and he was reappointed and named a Microsoft MVP in 2006. He has since received 11 Microsoft MVP awards. Wagner also won the Automation Alley Emerging Technology Leader award in 2011.[1][5]
Wagner is a founding member and past president of the Great Lakes .NET User Group and the Ann Arbor .NET Developers Group, and a contributor to the Ann Arbor Computer Society.[4][6]
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f About Bill Wagner Archived August 9, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, SRT Solutions.
- ^ SRT Solutions, Inc.
- ^ Nick Rozanski & Eóin Woods, Software Systems Architecture: Working with Stakeholders Using Viewpoints and Perspectives (Addison-Wesley, 2011), p. 176.
- ^ a b Alvin Ashcraft, .NET Fireside Chats - Bill Wagner on 'More Effective C# (December 11, 2008), DZone.
- ^ "Bill Wagner". mvp.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
- ^ .NET Rocks! with Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell, #611: Jon Skeet and Bill Wagner Disagree About C#.
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