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Welcome to The Region, global hub for the 140 software architects, developers, trainers and other professionals selected by Microsoft as Regional Directors. The first thing to know is that, while we’re officially recognized by Microsoft and often receive inside information about forthcoming technologies, we are completely independent. We are not Microsoft employees. As to The Region, it’s designed to help us circulate insights, information, inspiration and inquiries among RD’s and among the broader developer community. And it's an experiment. We hope you find it useful. We hope we find it useful, too.


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Ken Spencer: Ken has years of experience building applications. He has worked with the .NET Framework and .NET since before the PDC pre release came out. Ken specializes in Sharepoint and custom build systems these days. Ken formerly wrote the MSDN Magazine column on VB.NET and also co-authored OOP: Building Reusable Components with Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET for MS Press. Ken has also spoken at shows and events around the world on VB.NET. Ken is working with clients now to build new applications and convert other applications to .NET. Ken and his team have built tools that migrate applications (Access is the first, VB6 in work) to .NET.
Silverlight 14 May 2010

Silverlight Case Studies From Around the World

Ken Spencer writes "...good examples of what you can do with Silverlight. for instance, check out the NBC one and look at Figure 2...." Read post »
Microsoft Windows Client 10 May 2010

Fix for IIS 7 and SL 4 2103 Error

Ken Spencer writes "...I have a new build of win 7 64x on my laptop that’s about a week old. I have a pretty complex Sl 4 app that runs fine if using the vs host in 2010. If i flip the setting in the web project to use the IIS Web Server and run it, I get this [error]:" Read post »
Editors Picks 27 Apr 2010

How to Use Blend to Edit Style Templates

Ken Spencer writes "...Just found out something coo,. say you have a resource dictionary with styles in it. Now you [can] tie one of those styles to a control. You can use Blend to graphically edit the style! Right click the..." Read post »
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Ken Spencer

Practice Manager; Software Development Solid Quality Mentors greensboro, NC, US Send email to Ken Ken's blog  »
Technical Expertise .NET Compact Framework, .NET Development, .NET Framework, ASP .NET, Building Distributed Applications with .NET, SharePoint Products and Technologies, SQL Server, Visual Studio .NET, XML, XML Web Services
Years of Experience 28
Awards RD of the year in 1999
Vertical Industries Served Accounting and Financial, Analytics and Reporting, Customer Relationship Management, E-Business, Distribution, Sales and Inventory, Manufacturing, Project Management, Retail Sales, Engineering applications, Defense, Education, Finance, Government, Healthcare, Insurance, Software Industry