Bill Wagner (software)

Bill Wagner is an American software developer and author, known for his involvement in the C# programming language.[1]

Early life

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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

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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

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  1. ^ a b c d e f About Bill Wagner Archived August 9, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, SRT Solutions.
  2. ^ SRT Solutions, Inc.
  3. ^ Nick Rozanski & Eóin Woods, Software Systems Architecture: Working with Stakeholders Using Viewpoints and Perspectives (Addison-Wesley, 2011), p. 176.
  4. ^ a b Alvin Ashcraft, .NET Fireside Chats - Bill Wagner on 'More Effective C# (December 11, 2008), DZone.
  5. ^ "Bill Wagner". mvp.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  6. ^ .NET Rocks! with Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell, #611: Jon Skeet and Bill Wagner Disagree About C#.