Sahil Malik has been working as a consultant in Microsoft technologies for about nine years. He has worked for many top-notch clients across the globe, including many Fortune 100 companies and U.S. government organizations. Malik started programming in a DOS world, moved to Win32 API, Borland C++, MFC, VC++/ATL, VB6, and eventually to .NET in both VB.NET and C#. He currently is helping architect a highly visible public Web site using ASP.NET 2.0/SQL Server 2005, and also leads the office of emerging technologies at a prominent government office. Malik frequently speaks at local user groups and conferences. He is the author of Pro ADO.NET 2.0, and he also co-wrote Pro ADO.NET with VB.NET 1.1. Sahil is also working on a multimedia series on ADO.NET 2.0 for Keystone Learning. For his community involvement and contributions, Microsoft also has awarded him the MVP award. You can find Sahil's blog at http://codebetter.com/blogs/sahil.malik.