Marco De Sanctis

MARCO DE SANCTIS is a Microsoft MVP who has been designing and developing enterprise applications in distributed scenarios for the last seven years. He started developing with ASP.NET when it was first released; since then, he’s improved his skills to become an application architect. Over the years, he has specialized in building distributed services and has widened his knowledge to encompass technologies like Workflow Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, LINQ, and ADO.NET Entity Framework. Today Marco is one of the members of 5DLabs.it and works as a senior software engineer for one of the biggest Italian companies in the IT market. In his spare time, he’s a content manager at ASPItalia.com. He shares his tweets at http://twitter.com/crad77.

books by Marco De Sanctis

Entity Framework 4 in Action
  • April 2011
  • ISBN 9781935182184
  • 576 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
catalog / Software Development / Software Engineering / Database Development

Entity Framework 4 in Action is an example-rich tutorial that helps .NET developers learn and master the subject. It begins by explaining object/relational mapping and then shows how you can easily transition to EF from ADO.NET. Through numerous focused examples and two larger case studies, the book unfolds the EF story in a clear, easy-to-follow style. Infrastructure and inner workings of EF are discussed when you need them to understand a particular feature.

ASP.NET 4.0 in Practice
  • May 2011
  • ISBN 9781935182467
  • 504 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
catalog / Software Development / Web / Backend Frameworks / ASP.NET Core

ASP.NET is a massive framework that requires a large amount of know-how from developers. Fortunately, this book distills over 100 practical ASP.NET techniques from the experience of a team of MVPs, and puts them right at your fingertips.

The techniques are tested and selected for their usefulness, and they are all presented in a simple problem-solution-discussion format. You'll discover methods for key new subjects like data integration with Entity Framework and ASP.NET MVC. Along the way, you'll also find ways to make your applications fast and secure.