Bill Wagner

About Bill Wagner

Bill has spent his entire career in the software industry, spanning both technical and business roles. He spent eight years as a self-employed consultant before co-founding SRT Solutions with Dianne Marsh. Over the past decade they’ve grown SRT Solutions into a premier software development company, amassing 4 FastTrack awards (2011, 2010, 2008, 2007), the Michigan 50 Companies to Watch award (2011), and making the Inc 500/5000 list (2011 and 2012). Bill was also awarded Automation Alley’s Emerging Technology Leader award in 2011.

His technical time is spent between curly braces, primarily with C#. He’s the author of the best selling “Effective C#”, now in its second edition, and “More Effective C#”. His articles have appeared in MSDN Magazine, the C# Developer Center, Visual C++ Developer’s Journal, Visual Studio Magazine, ASP.NET Pro, .NET Developer’s Journal and more. He’s written hundreds of technical articles for software developers. He actively blogs about technical and business topics at www.srtsolutions.com/billwagner. Bill is also a regional director for Microsoft.

In addition to his business and technical accomplishments, Bill is an active community participant. He volunteers as a math tutor for the Manchester, Mich. schools, where he works to inspire high schoolers to consider a technical career.

He received his B.S. in Computer Science from the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

Our view on the mobile market

Last time I gave an overview of the areas where we’re making significant investments in 2013. In these posts, I’ll go into some detail on

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SRT Technology Investments for 2013

At SRT, we continuously examine the overall technology landscape and make decisions on where to invest more time, what should stay the same, and what

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Assert.ThrowsException for async lambdas

UPDATE: Jake Ginnivan pointed out an inefficiency in my code below. I was awaiting the async method under test twice.

As I mentioned a

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Effective Writing guidelines from Scott Meyers

I try not to write posts that are simply links to other posts, but I had to make an exception for this. I was quite

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Testing async Methods in C# 5

Last week I promised that I’d write a blog post on using Assert.ThrowsException() to test async methods. Before I get to that, let’s go over

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Scrum and multiple project teams

One of our customers is grappling with how to manage a scrum process that involves multiple teams with multiple responsibilities. The larger organization produces a

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Testing without ExpectedExceptionAttribute

The Windows Store version of the Microsoft Test Framework does not include an ExpectedExceptionAttribute class. I’ve already received questions on how people should go about

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Windows 8 Unleashed Developer Event coming to Ann Arbor

We’ve partnered with Microsoft to host “Windows 8 Unleashed” in Ann Arbor on Thursday January 24th. This is a free event, sponsored by Microsoft, and

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Enter 2013

Welcome to 2013. This promises to be a year of many new adventures, and continuing many of my current activities.

Let’s start with the existing

SRT Developer Infusion Training: Launching in February

We are excited to announce public classes for developers launching in January of 2013.

Twice a month, we’ll host .NET developer training classes for professional

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