Alex Homer is a director of Stonebroom, Ltd., a software-development, consulting, and training organization. He was formerly lead technical author and reviewer for Wrox Press, specializing in Microsoft Web and database technologies. Dave Sussman speaks frequently at Microsoft development conferences and has been writing about ASP since its earliest releases. Microsoft named Homer and Sussman the UK's only "Software Legends." They are authors and coauthors of several books, including Professionai ASPNET, Second Edition. Mark Fussell is Microsoft's Lead Program Manager on XML technologies. He is responsible for defining the future direction of NET's XML classes.