Wintellect, a consulting, debugging and training firm specializing in Microsoft Windows and .NET technology, today announced Charles Petzold will provide consulting services for Wintellect’s clients in the area of Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation.

 

Charles Petzold brings to Wintellect more than 20 years experience in Microsoft technologies. While his current focus is on Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Petzold has been programming with Windows since first obtaining a beta of the Windows 1.0 SDK in the spring of 1985.

 

“Being able to offer our clients the expertise Charles Petzold brings to the table enables us to continue our tradition of best of breed service,” says Lewis Frazer, president, CEO and co-founder of Wintellect. “The knowledge and experience Charles imparts is second to none. We couldn’t be happier about working with him.”

 

Petzold is a Microsoft MVP for Client Application Development and the author of several other books, including 3D Programming for Windows: Three-Dimensional Graphics for the Windows Presentation Foundation; Applications = Code+Markup; Programming Microsoft Windows Forms; Programming in the Key of C#;.NET Book Zero; Programming Microsoft Windows with C#; Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software; and many more.

 

Based in New York, Petzold is a graduate of Stevens Institute of Technology. He wrote the very first magazine article on Windows programming in 1986 and is the author of the classic Programming Windows, one of the best-known and widely used programming books of all time, which is currently in its fifth edition and. He was honored in 1994 with the Windows Pioneer Award, presented by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Windows Magazine.