The Region at MicrosoftRegionalDirectors.com

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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Steven Smith: TechEd Speaker, ASP.NET MVP, ASPInsiders member, INETA Speaker, DevConnections Speaker, co-author of three ASP.NET books and numerous .NET articles. Currently interested in agile methodologies and performance.

TechTalk

Software Development Fundamentals Resources

Steven Smith writes "...In this 45-minute talk, I covered what I consider to be fundamental principles, patterns, and practices of software development, with a little bit of time for a demo at the end....You can get my slides and demos from the talk here..." Read post »

TechTalk

Applying Interface Segregation to Configuration Files

Steven Smith writes "...The Interface Segregation Principle states that classes should not be forced to depend on things they do not use. By refactoring “fat” interfaces into smaller, more focused and cohesive interfaces defined by the clients that use them, we can reduce the coupling in our code. This results in code that is..." Read post »

Visual Studio

Bug Solution to System.Core in VS2010 Projects

Steven Smith writes "...I just ran into an odd issue with a VS2010 project. In my case it was an MVC 2 application I was upgrading from VS2008. One of the built-in controllers (ProfileController) was failing to compile because it could not resolve the Linq extension method symbols Single() and Matches(). These are located in the System.Core assembly. I checked my project references in Solution Explorer, and..." Read post »
North America

Steven Smith

CIO Lake Quincy Media Kent, OH, US Send email to Steven Steven's blog  »

Technical Expertise .NET Development, .NET Framework, Active Server Pages, Architecture, ASP .NET, Business Solutions, C#, Data Access Technologies, LINQ, Migration to .NET, Silverlight, Software Architect, Technical Training, Technical Writer, Testing, Visual Studio .NET, Web Development
Years of Experience 12
Certifications MCP, MCSD, MCSE
Awards Microsoft MVP (ASP.NET)
Vertical Industries Served E-Business, Software Industry