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Author Biography

Hristo Deshev is a group product manager for Telerik, a leading vendor of ASP.NET controls (Telerik.com). He has been working on component development for the past several years, focusing on creating rich, highly interactive Ajax solutions. A major goal of his and his team is “taming web development” applying agile software engineering practices to create robust solutions targeting all modern web browsers and supporting multiple ASP.NET and Visual Studio .NET versions. You can reach Hristo via e-mail at hristo.deshev@telerik.com and on his blog at http://blogs.telerik.com/blogs/twisted_asp_net.

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