Herfried K. Wagner was born and lives in Austria.  His interests in the Visual Basic programming language have their roots in his time at school where he learned how to program in QBasic and Visual Basic.  He holds a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in computer and media science from Vienna University of Technology.  For some years, he is co-administrator at ActiveVB, a German website dedicated to Visual Basic, and runs his own Visual Basic and .NET website called VB.Any.