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ATL Server: High Performance C++ on .NET is the only book on the market written by the same people who created the ATL Server library. Crivat, Grewal, Kumar and Lee ”all members of the ATL Server team ”provide a comprehensive look at the ATL Server library, which was designed for building high-end web applications and web services.

You won't find such in-depth information written anywhere else. (Even books about ISAPI do not provide insight on the very library designed to simplify its development!) From foundation concepts, to deeper discussion about extensibility and customization, ATL Server: High Performance C++ on .NET covers everything you want to know about the ATL Server framework.

About the Authors

Pranish Kumar is currently a program manager on the Visual C++ Libraries Team at Microsoft. He joined Microsoft in 2000, focusing on ATL Server ”his primary responsibility is all areas of the library. Before joining Microsoft, Pranish worked in different areas of software development in Sydney, Australia. He holds bachelor's degrees in computer science and electrical engineering from the University of New South Wales.

Jasjit Singh Grewal graduated in May 1999 from the University of Maryland at College Park with a degree in computer science. He joined Microsoft in June 1999 and began working on the Visual C++ Libraries Team, and in particular, on ATL Server. During his time on the Libraries Team, Jasjit contributed to nearly all aspects of the design and implementation of the ATL Server library and was the primary designer and implementer of the ATL Server web services support.

Bogdan Crivat is a software design engineer in the Data Mining Server Development team at Microsoft Corporation. Bogdan joined the ATL Server team at Microsoft in 1999, focusing mostly on the SOAP support and the SMTP support classes. He worked there until ATL Server was released (with Visual Studio .NET). Before Microsoft, Bogdan worked on large-scale client/server applications for Softwin, a Romanian software development company. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Bucharest, Romania.

Eric Lee has worked in testing and development at Microsoft Corporation for just over 4 years . Before Microsoft, Eric worked at a small company in Toronto. Most of Eric's experience has been in GUI components and server-side programming. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Western Ontario.