About the Reviewer

Alvin Ashcraft is a software developer living near Philadelphia, PA. He has dedicated his 22-year career to building software with C#, Visual Studio, WPF, ASP.NET, HTML/JavaScript, UWP, and Xamarin apps and SQL Server. He has been awarded as a Microsoft MVP nine times; once for Software Architecture, seven times for C# and Visual Studio & Tools, and for Windows Dev in 2018-2019. You can read his daily links for .NET developers on his blog at alvinashcraft.com and UWP App Tips blog at www.uwpapp.tips.

He currently works as a Principal Software Engineer for Allscripts, developing clinical healthcare software. He has previously been employed with several large software companies, including Oracle, Genzeon, and Corporation Service Company. There, he helped create software solutions for financial, business, and healthcare organizations using Microsoft platforms and solutions.

He was a technical reviewer for NuGet 2 Essentials and Mastering ASP.NET Core 2.0 by Packt.

I would like to thank my wonderful wife, Stelene, and our three amazing daughters for their support. They were very understanding while I read and reviewed these chapters on evenings and weekends to help deliver a useful, high-quality book for the ASP.NET Core developers.