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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Sergey Zwezdin is a co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of NeoConcept company. NeoConcept is ISV and develops solutions in the most various areas. Sergey has wide experience of an application developing, including developing desktop and internet/intranet applications (based on WinForms, WPF, Silverlight and ASP.NET), applications for Microsof Office (VSTO), services (WCF, ADO.NET Data Services) , etc. Besides main work, Sergey also teaches at the South Ural state university a course about computer network basics, the distributed intercations and buildings web applications for students of older years. Also Sergey is leader of user group at South Ural - South Ural .NET Alliance. He is improving SUNETA since 2005. Besides, Sergey actively participates in various events such as Developer Days, TechDays, the Platform, etc. Sergey is a member of Russian speakers bureau.

TechTalk

About the Microsoft Regional Director Program

Sergey Zwezdin writes "...The Microsoft Regional Director (RD) program is a community of independent developers, architects, trainers, and other professionals who form a vital link between Microsoft and the developer community. These technical experts provide insight and informed perspectives about Microsoft software development tools and technologies. Regional Directors are not Microsoft employees, nor are they..." Read post »

TechTalk

Sample Code Creating Thumb Buttons for Windows 7

Sergey Zwezdin writes "...how we can use buttons in Window’s preview...there is .NET wrapper which is called .NET Interop Sample Library...[creating] buttons should be executed when WM_TaskbarButtonCreated message is firing. Therefore it is necessary to override WndProc method...We can create the ThumbButtonManager object via extension method..." Read post »

NET Framework

Update of .NET RIA Services Includes Bug Fixes

Sergey Zwezdin writes "...Update of .NET RIA Services preview [has] Additional template for business applications. This template contain a forms for login and new user. Authentication sample. Provider for store metadata in XML..." Read post »
Eastern Europe

Sergey Zwezdin

Chelyabinsk, Ural, RU Send email to Sergey Sergey's blog  »

Technical Expertise .NET Framework, C#, Data Access, LINQ, Software Architect
Years of Experience 6
Certifications MCP
Awards Microsoft MVP, Visual C# expertise
Vertical Industries Served Engineering applications