Fritz is a co-founder of Pluralsight where he serves as the Content Advisor. Fritz is the author of the book 'Essential ASP.NET' published by Addison Wesley, available in both C# and Visual Basic .NET editions, and 'Essential ASP.NET 2.0'. He is a past columnist for MSDN Magazine, and and has spoken at many industry conferences including the PDC, TechEd, and VSLive!. Prior to .NET, Fritz's work focused on Windows development with C++ and COM, and has written several courses and many articles on C++, MFC, COM, and ATL. Microsoft recognized Fritz as an MVP for over 5 years for his contributions to the ASP.NET community. Fritz lives in central Maine.