Building XNA 2.0 Games: A Practical Guide for Independent Game Development (Books for Professionals by Professionals)
John Sedlakis a Microsoft "Most Valuable Professional" for his work in the XNA/DirectX community and has created numerous games since first learning Visual Basic 5. Through the development of these games he became to know and love both the .NET and XNA frameworks for empowering programmers to realize their ideas quickly.James Silvais the creator of The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai, winner of the Microsoft Dream Build Play XNA development contest.