Anthony Northrup (edit name/settings)

In the mid-1980s, Tony Northrup, MCTS, MCSE, CISPP, and MVP, learned to program in BASIC on a ZX-81 personal computer built from a kit. Later, he mastered 68000 assembly and ANSI C on the Motorola VERSAdos operating system before beginning to write code for MS-DOS. After a brief time with the NEXTSTEP operating system, Tony returned to a Microsoft platform because he was impressed by the beta version of Microsoft Windows NT 3.1.
Although he has dabbled in other operating systems, Tony has since focused on Windows development in Microsoft Visual C++, Microsoft Visual Basic, C#, and Perl (for automation projects). Tony now develops almost exclusively for the .NET Framework.
Tony started writing in 1997 and has since published more than a dozen technology books on the topics of development and networking. In addition, Tony has written dozens of articles at http://www.microsoft.com, covering topics ranging from securing ASP.NET applications to designing firewalls to protect networks and computers.
Tony spends his spare time hiking through the woods near his Phillipston, Massachusetts, home. He’s rarely without his camera, and in the past six years has created what might be the largest and most popular publicly accessible database of nature and wildlife photographs on the Internet. Tony lives with his dog, Sandi, and his cat, Sam. For more information about Tony, visit http://www.northrup.org.