Jeffrey Richter

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Jeffrey Richter is a co-founder of Wintellect. He has written a number of books on programming for Windows and .NET.

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Jeffrey Richter is a co-founder of Wintellect, a training, debugging, and consulting firm dedicated to helping companies build better software, faster. Over the years, Jeff has consulted for many companies including Intel, DreamWorks and Microsoft. In fact, for Microsoft, he has contributed both design and code to the following products: Windows (all 32-bit and 64-bit versions), Visual Studio .NET, Microsoft Office, TerraServer, the .NET Framework, "Longhorn" and "Indigo". Even today, Jeff is still consulting with Microsoft's .NET Framework team (since October 1999) and XML Web Services and Messaging Team ("Indigo") (since January 2003).

He is the author of several best selling .NET and Win32 programming books including: The Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming in C# Collection Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming in Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Programming Applications for Microsoft Windows (formerly Advanced Windows) Programming Server-Side Applications for Microsoft Windows In addition, Jeff has also contributed to many other books including: Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (Core Reference), .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Vol. 1: System, System.Collections, System.IO, System.Diagnostics, System.Globalization, System.Security, System.Text, System.Threading Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Class Library Reference Volumes 1-4: System Jeffrey is also a contributing editor to MSDN Magazine where he authors the .NET column and has written many feature articles.

Jeffrey holds both a helicopter and airplanes licenses and is a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians. He also enjoys playing drums and keyboards. He attends concerts regularly to indulge his passion for jazz bands. He also loves to travel and explore new places^{[citation needed]}. Jeffrey can usually be found tinkering with some new technology living his life on the bleeding edge. His lot in life is to always want to purchase something that should be shipping any day now. Jeff lives in Kirkland, WA with his wife Kristin, their son Aidan.

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Windows via C/C++(with Christophe Nasarre)
CLR via C#
The Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming in C# Collection
Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming in Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (with Francesco Balena)
Programming Server-Side Applications for Microsoft Windows 2000 (with Jason D. Clark)
Programming Applications for Microsoft Windows (now Windows via C/C++, Fifth Edition)
Advanced Windows