Sessions and Speakers are subject to change without notice
Gert Drapers, SQLDEV.net Gert Drapers is a Software Architect in the SQL Server Development group at Microsoft. As a member of the SQL Server Customer Advisory Team, he is involved in providing architecture design guidance and performance tuning for the largest and most challenging SQL Server deployments in the world. Gert brings extensive experience in the areas of application development, database management, data loading, and performance tuning of VLDB environments. Prior to his current position, Gert was working as Software Architect in the .NET Developer Division, responsible for the design and development of the next generation transaction manager and programming model. He started working on SQL Server in 1988 while working for Ashton-Tate. He joined Microsoft in 1991 where he held various development positions within the Developer Relation Group and Microsoft Consulting Services before joining the SQL Server development team in 1996. Gert worked on both SQL Server 7.0 and 2000; first as Software Design Engineer in the SQL Server Storage Engine and later as the Product Unit Manager of the SQL Server Management Tools team and as Architect of SQL Server DTS.
Dino Esposito, IDesign, Inc. An IDesign software architect and prolific author, Dino Esposito writes the Cutting Edge column for MSDN Magazine. Dino is also the author of two popular architecture books for Microsoft Press. They are "Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise" (2008) and "ASP.NET and AJAX: Architecting Web Applications" (2009). Get in touch at http://weblogs.asp.net/despos.
Carl Franklin, Franklins.Net Visual Studio Connections Conference Co-Chair Carl Franklin, the Visual Basic Track chairperson, has been a figurehead in the VB community since the very early days when he wrote for BasicPro Magazine, which then became Visual Basic Programmers Journal. He authored the Q&A column of that magazine. He authored many feature articles for VBPJ and other magazines on topics such as graphics, serial communications, and sockets programming. He has authored two books for John Wiley & Sons on sockets programming in VB, and in 1994 he helped create the very first Web site for VB developers, Carl & Gary’s VB Home Page. He now teaches hands-on VB .NET classes for his company, Franklins.Net. Carl is MSDN Regional Director for Connecticut, and has a close relationship with the New England Microsoft Office. His students rave about his teaching abilities and vast knowledge of .NET carl@franklins.net
Ken Getz, MCW Technologies Ken Getz is a senior consultant with MCW Technologies and splits his time between programming, writing, and training. He specializes in tools and applications written in Visual Studio .NET and Visual Basic. Ken has written many technical books, including ASP.NET Developers Jumpstart (Addison-Wesley) with Paul D. Sheriff, and is co-author of several best selling books, including Access 2002 Developer’s Handbooks with Paul Litwin and Mike Gunderloy, Visual Basic Language Developer’s Handbook with Mike Gilbert, and VBA Developer’s Handbook with Mike Gilbert (Sybex). He co-wrote several training courses for Application Developers Training Company (AppDev), including Visual Basic .NET, ASP.NET, Access 2000 and 97, Visual Basic 6, and Visual Basic 5. He has also recorded video training for AppDev covering VB .NET, ASP.NET, VB6, Access 2000, and Access 97. Ken is a frequent speaker at technical conferences and has spoken often at Microsoft’s TechEd conference. Ken also is a technical editor for Access-VB-SQL Advisor Magazine and a columnist for asp.netPRO Magazine and CoDe Magazine. You can reach Ken at keng@mcwtech.com.
Scott Guthrie, Microsoft Scott Guthrie is corporate vice president of Microsoft’s .NET Developer Division, where he runs the development teams responsible for delivering Microsoft Visual Studio developer tools and Microsoft .NET Framework technologies for building client and Web applications. A founding member of the .NET project, Guthrie has played a key role in the design and development of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework since 1999. Guthrie is also responsible for Microsoft’s web server platform and development tools teams. He has also more recently driven the development of Silverlight – a cross browser, cross platform plug-in for delivering next generation media experiences and rich internet applications for the web.
Today, Guthrie directly manages the development teams that build the Common Language Runtime (CLR), ASP.NET, Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), IIS, Commerce Server and the Visual Studio Tools for Web, Client and Silverlight development.
Guthrie graduated with a degree in computer science from Duke University.
Billy Hollis, Author Billy Hollis is co-author of the first book ever published on Visual Basic. NET, VB.NET Programming on the Public Beta, from Wrox Press, as well as numerous other books and articles on .NET. His most recent book is Fast Track Visual Basic .NET. He writes a monthly column for MSDN Online, and is heavily involved in training, consultation, and software development on the Microsoft .NET platform, focusing on smart-client development and commercial packages. He frequently speaks at industry conferences such as Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference (PDC), TechEd, and Comdex. Billy is also a member of the INETA (International .NET Association of user groups) speaker’s bureau and speaks at user group meetings all over the country.
Alex Homer, Stonebroom Ltd. Alex began his love-hate relationship with computers in 1980 with the Altair and Sinclair Z80, while employed as a technical salesman with several manufacturing companies in the building industry. Since 1994, he has been working with and writing about various programming technologies–from databases to building Help systems. However with the growth of the Web, and particularly as ASP rapidly become a viable application platform, he has concentrated almost entirely on this topic. Alex has written or contributed to more than 30 books for Wrox Press, as well as producing articles for ASPToday. He has also spoken at several Wrox conferences on a range of topics, plus ASPDevCon and the Microsoft Professional Developer Conferences (PDC) and the VS.NET Europe conference. In what spare time is left, he runs his own software and consultancy company, Stonebroom Ltd. (www.stonebroom.com)
Rob Howard, Telligent Systems Rob Howard is a founder of Telligent Systems, Inc. Prior to founding »telligentsystems Rob was employed by the Microsoft Corporation where he was a member of the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 team - specifically contributing to ASP.NET. Rob’s new company, »telligentsystems, is a solutions company specializing in building high-availability and high-scale software solutions. In addition, it also is building out a Knowledge Management product line whose first release is Community Server (see www.communityserver.org) which brings together and integrates some of the most powerful .NET solutions such as the Forums (used on forums.xbox.com) and .Text (used on blogs.msdn.com).
Julie Lerman, The Data Farm Julie Lerman is a Microsoft MVP, .NET mentor and consultant who lives in the hills of Vermont. You can find Julie presenting on data access and other Microsoft .NET topics at user groups and conferences around the world. Julie blogs at thedatafarm.com/blog, is the author of the highly acclaimed "Programming Entity Framework (with a second edition coming soon) and authors the MSDN Magazine "Data Points" column. Follow Julie on twitter at julielerman.
Michele Leroux Bustamante, IDesign, Inc. Michèle Leroux Bustamante is Chief Architect of IDesign Inc., Microsoft Regional Director for San Diego, and a Microsoft MVP for Connected Systems. At IDesign Michele provides training, mentoring and high-end architecture consulting services focusing on scalable and secure architecture design for .NET, web services, interoperability, federated security scenarios, CardSpace, and globalization architecture. Michele participates in Software Design Reviews for products in the Microsoft roadmap, including WCF, CardSpace and other security-focused products. During the Beta 1 phase Michele participated in prototyping elements of the CardSpace technology for the product team. She is a member of the International .NET Speakers Association (INETA), a frequent conference presenter, conference chair for SD West, and is frequently published in several major technology journals. Michele is also on the board of directors for IASA (International Association of Software Architects), and a Program Advisor and instructor for UCSD Extension. Her latest book is Learning WCF (O’Reilly 2007) – see her book blog here: http://thatindigogirl.com. Reach her at mlb@idesign.net, or visit www.idesign.net and her main blog at www.dasblonde.net.
Paul Litwin, Deep Training Paul Litwin is a developer specializing in ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server, SQL Server Reporting Services, and related technologies. Paul is a Programmer Manager with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. He is also the owner of Deep Training, a developer owned training company specializing in .NET developer training (www.deeptraining.com). Paul has authored a number of books and training courses on ASP.NET, SQL Server Reporting Services, and Micrsoft Access. Paul is the conference chair of Microsoft ASP.NET Connections, a Microsoft MVP, and a member of the INETA Speakers Bureau. He has spoken at a number of conferences and code camps, including Microsoft ASP.NET Connections, TechEd, and Seattle Code Camp.
Juval Lowy, IDesign, Inc. Juval Lowy is a software architect and the principal of IDesign (www.idesign.net), specializing in .NET 3.0 architecture consulting and advanced .NET 3.0 training. Juval is Microsoft’s Regional Director for the Silicon Valley, working with Microsoft on helping the industry adopt .NET 3.5. His latest book is Programming WCF Services 2nd Edition (O’Reilly 2008). Juval participates in the Microsoft internal design reviews for future versions of .NET and related technologies. Juval published numerous articles regarding almost every aspect of .NET development, and is a frequent presenter at development conferences. Microsoft recognized Juval as a Software Legend as one of the world’s top .NET experts and industry leaders.
Microsoft, Microsoft program managers, architects, evangelists, developers, and product managers will present this session. The specific speaker will be assigned closer to the conference date.
Bradley Millington, Microsoft Bradley Millington is a Program Manager on the ASP.NET team at Microsoft. His involvement in the ASP.NET project dates back to the beginning of the first version, but more recently he has been responsible for the new data access features in the Whidbey release. His feature contributions include the new data source controls architecture for simplified databinding and several new data-bound UI controls such as GridView, DetailsView, and TreeView.
Scott Mitchell, 4GuysFromRolla.com As editor and main contributor to 4GuysFromRolla.com, a popular ASP/ASP.NET resource Web site, Scott Mitchell has authored literally hundreds of articles on Microsoft Web Technologies since 1998. In addition to his vast collection of online articles, Scott has currently authored five books on ASP/ASP.NET: Sams Teach Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0 in 21 Days (Sams); Designing Active Server Pages (O''Reilly); and ASP.NET: Tips, Tutorials, and Code (Sams), ASP.NET Data Web Controls Kick Start (Sams), and Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 24 Hours (Sams). Scott has also written a number of print magazine articles, including articles for Microsoft''s MSDN Magazine and asp.netPRO, as well as online content for Microsoft’s MSDN Web site. Scott''s non-writing accomplishments include speaking, training, and software development. Scott has spoken at numerous ASP/ASP.NET user groups and ASP.NET conferences across the country. Scott teaches classes on XML, Web Services, and ASP.NET at the University of California – San Diego University Extension, and is an independent trainer for local individuals and small businesses. Scott also works as an independent software developer, working on consulting projects and software solutions.
Russ Nemhauser, Nemhauser Media, Inc. Russ Nemhauser is a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP and a Microsoft Certified Professional, and has served as an Architect, Developer, Team Leader, and Project Manager over the past several years. His projects have included enterprise applications, online commerce sites, and corporate intranets for Wall Street, Universal Studios, Microsoft, Seagram, and others. Russ actively participates in the development community through public speaking and technical writing.
Brian Noyes, IDesign, Inc. Brian is Chief Architect of IDesign, a Microsoft Regional Director, and Connected System MVP. He is a frequent top-rated speaker at conferences worldwide including Microsoft TechEd, DevConnections, DevTeach, and others. He is the author of Developing Applications with Windows Workflow Foundation, Smart Client Deployment with ClickOnce, and Data Binding in Windows Forms 2.0. Brian got started programming as a hobby while flying F-14 Tomcats in the U.S. Navy, later turning his passion for code into his current career. You can contact Brian through his blog at http://briannoyes.net.
Carl Rabeler, Solid Quality Learning With more than 15 years of consulting experience, 10 years of SQL Server experience, and 7 years of business intelligence and data warehouse experience, Carl enjoys facilitating knowledge transfer between experts, vendors, and users. He has worked closely with the SQL Server development and best practices teams for the past 5 years to publish a number of training and best practices documentation for SQL Server and Analysis Services. Carl has spent much of the past year working closely with the SQL Server development team and customers to test and document Analysis Services and Data Transformation Services in SQL Server 2005.
Stefan Schackow, Microsoft Stefan is a Program Manager on the Web Platform and Tools Team at Microsoft working on the new application services stack in Whidbey. He owns the Membership, Role Manager, Profile, Personalization and Site Navigation features. He also works on features for the Microsoft ASP.NET hosting solution. Prior to joining the ASP.NET team, Stefan worked as application development consultant in MCS.
Doug Seven, Microsoft Doug Seven is a Senior Product Manager for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, focusing on ensuring development teams are able to collaborate and communicate throughout the entire application life cycle. Prior to this role, Doug was a Senior Development Lead in Microsoft.com where he transitioned a "traditional" cross-functional development team to Agile methodologies using VSTS with Team Foundation Server. This transition included the implementation of test-driven development, paired programming, and Scrum. Doug has co-authored several books on Microsoft technologies, and spends a great deal of time engaging with, and supporting the community.
Sam Spencer, Microsoft Sam Spencer is a Program Manager on the Web Platform & Tools team at Microsoft. As a program manager Sam is responsible for the planning, design and implantation of various parts of the web development features of visual studio including the source editing support and project system. Prior to working on the web development tools, Sam was a member of the Visual Basic team where he owned code editing and debugging.
Kimberly L. Tripp, SQLskills.com Kimberly Tripp and Paul Randal are a husband-and-wife team who own and run SQLskills.com, a world-renowned SQL Server consulting and training company. They are both SQL Server MVPs and Microsoft Regional Directors, with over 30 years of combined experience on SQL Server.
Kimberly worked on the SQL Server team in the early 1990s as a tester and writer before leaving to found SQLskills and embrace her passion for teaching and consulting. Kimberly has been a staple at worldwide conferences since she first presented at TechEd in 1996, and she blogs at SQLskills.com/blogs/Kimberly.
Kimberly and Paul have written Microsoft whitepapers and books for SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008, and are regular, top-rated presenters worldwide on database maintenance, high availability, disaster recovery, performance tuning, and SQL Server internals. Together they teach the SQL MCM certification and throughout Microsoft.
In their spare time they like to find frogfish in remote corners of the world.
William R. Vaughn, Beta V Corporation William (Bill) Vaughn is an industry-recognized author, mentor and subject-matter expert on Visual Studio, SQL Server, Reporting Services and data access interfaces. He’s worked in the computer industry for over thirty years—working with mainframe, minicomputer and personal computer systems as a developer, manager, architect, trainer, marketer, support specialist, writer and publisher. In 2000, after 14 years at Microsoft, Bill stepped away to work on his books, mentoring and independent training seminars. He’s written seven editions of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server and three editions of ADO.NET and ADO Examples and Best Practices for Visual Basic (and C#) Programmers. He and Peter Blackburn also wrote the best-selling and critically acclaimed Hitchhiker’s Guide to SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services. Bill is a top-rated speaker and frequents conferences all over the world including VSLive, Visual Studio/SQL Connections, DevTeach and VBug. He’s also written a wealth of articles for magazines such as SQL Server Magazine, Visual Basic Programmer’s Journal, .NET Magazine and many others as well as a bi-weekly editorial on developer issues for Processor magazine. Bill spends considerable time answering questions on the data-centric public newsgroups and speaking at user group meetings in Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and at his speaking venues all over the world. Bill was added to the INETA speaker’s list this fall. He’s available for consulting, mentoring or custom training. See www.betav.com or www.betav.comblogbillva.
Dan Wahlin, Wahlin Consulting Dan Wahlin (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for ASP.NET and XML Web Services) is the president of Wahlin Consulting which specializes in .NET and SharePoint consulting and training solutions. Dan founded the XML for ASP.NET Developers Web site (http://www.xmlforasp.net), which focuses on using ASP.NET, XML, AJAX, Silverlight and Web Services in Microsoft’s .NET platform. He’s also on the INETA Speaker’s Bureau, speaks at conferences and user groups around the world and is recognized as a leading authority on .NET technologies. Dan has written several books on .NET including Professional Silverlight 2 Development, Professional ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX, ASP.NET 2.0 MVP Hacks and Tips, and XML for ASP.NET Developers. Dan’s blog is located at http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin.
Stephen Walther, Microsoft Stephen Walther is a Microsoft Senior Program Manager who works with the ASP.NET MVC team to develop content around ASP.NET MVC. He is the author of the all time, biggest, best-selling book on ASP.NET, ASP.NET Unleashed. He is currently writing ASP.NET MVC Unleashed. Read his blog on ASP.NET MVC at http://StephenWalther.com.
Christian Weyer, thinktecture Christian is co-founder of thinktecture, a European company aiding and supporting software architects and developers in designing and implementing distributed solutions. He has modelled and implemented distributed applications with Java, COM, DCOM, COM+, Web services and other technologies over the years, and recently he has been focusing on the ideas and concepts of service-orientation and their practical translation in customer projects, primarily using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). Visit him at http://blogs.thinktecture.com/cweyer/
Gert Drapers is a Software Architect in the SQL Server Development group at Microsoft. As a member of the SQL Server Customer Advisory Team, he is involved in providing architecture design guidance and performance tuning for the largest and most challenging SQL Server deployments in the world. Gert brings extensive experience in the areas of application development, database management, data loading, and performance tuning of VLDB environments. Prior to his current position, Gert was working as Software Architect in the .NET Developer Division, responsible for the design and development of the next generation transaction manager and programming model. He started working on SQL Server in 1988 while working for Ashton-Tate. He joined Microsoft in 1991 where he held various development positions within the Developer Relation Group and Microsoft Consulting Services before joining the SQL Server development team in 1996. Gert worked on both SQL Server 7.0 and 2000; first as Software Design Engineer in the SQL Server Storage Engine and later as the Product Unit Manager of the SQL Server Management Tools team and as Architect of SQL Server DTS.
An IDesign software architect and prolific author, Dino Esposito writes the Cutting Edge column for MSDN Magazine. Dino is also the author of two popular architecture books for Microsoft Press. They are "Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise" (2008) and "ASP.NET and AJAX: Architecting Web Applications" (2009). Get in touch at 
Visual Studio Connections Conference Co-Chair Carl Franklin, the Visual Basic Track chairperson, has been a figurehead in the VB community since the very early days when he wrote for BasicPro Magazine, which then became Visual Basic Programmers Journal. He authored the Q&A column of that magazine. He authored many feature articles for VBPJ and other magazines on topics such as graphics, serial communications, and sockets programming. He has authored two books for John Wiley & Sons on sockets programming in VB, and in 1994 he helped create the very first Web site for VB developers, Carl & Gary’s VB Home Page. He now teaches hands-on VB .NET classes for his company, Franklins.Net. Carl is MSDN Regional Director for Connecticut, and has a close relationship with the New England Microsoft Office. His students rave about his teaching abilities and vast knowledge of .NET carl@franklins.net
Ken Getz is a senior consultant with MCW Technologies and splits his time between programming, writing, and training. He specializes in tools and applications written in Visual Studio .NET and Visual Basic. Ken has written many technical books, including ASP.NET Developers Jumpstart (Addison-Wesley) with Paul D. Sheriff, and is co-author of several best selling books, including Access 2002 Developer’s Handbooks with Paul Litwin and Mike Gunderloy, Visual Basic Language Developer’s Handbook with Mike Gilbert, and VBA Developer’s Handbook with Mike Gilbert (Sybex). He co-wrote several training courses for Application Developers Training Company (AppDev), including Visual Basic .NET, ASP.NET, Access 2000 and 97, Visual Basic 6, and Visual Basic 5. He has also recorded video training for AppDev covering VB .NET, ASP.NET, VB6, Access 2000, and Access 97. Ken is a frequent speaker at technical conferences and has spoken often at Microsoft’s TechEd conference. Ken also is a technical editor for Access-VB-SQL Advisor Magazine and a columnist for asp.netPRO Magazine and CoDe Magazine. You can reach Ken at keng@mcwtech.com.
Scott Guthrie is corporate vice president of Microsoft’s .NET Developer Division, where he runs the development teams responsible for delivering Microsoft Visual Studio developer tools and Microsoft .NET Framework technologies for building client and Web applications. A founding member of the .NET project, Guthrie has played a key role in the design and development of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework since 1999. Guthrie is also responsible for Microsoft’s web server platform and development tools teams. He has also more recently driven the development of Silverlight – a cross browser, cross platform plug-in for delivering next generation media experiences and rich internet applications for the web. 
Billy Hollis is co-author of the first book ever published on Visual Basic. NET, VB.NET Programming on the Public Beta, from Wrox Press, as well as numerous other books and articles on .NET. His most recent book is Fast Track Visual Basic .NET. He writes a monthly column for MSDN Online, and is heavily involved in training, consultation, and software development on the Microsoft .NET platform, focusing on smart-client development and commercial packages. He frequently speaks at industry conferences such as Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference (PDC), TechEd, and Comdex. Billy is also a member of the INETA (International .NET Association of user groups) speaker’s bureau and speaks at user group meetings all over the country.
Alex began his love-hate relationship with computers in 1980 with the Altair and Sinclair Z80, while employed as a technical salesman with several manufacturing companies in the building industry. Since 1994, he has been working with and writing about various programming technologies–from databases to building Help systems. However with the growth of the Web, and particularly as ASP rapidly become a viable application platform, he has concentrated almost entirely on this topic. Alex has written or contributed to more than 30 books for Wrox Press, as well as producing articles for ASPToday. He has also spoken at several Wrox conferences on a range of topics, plus ASPDevCon and the Microsoft Professional Developer Conferences (PDC) and the VS.NET Europe conference. In what spare time is left, he runs his own software and consultancy company, Stonebroom Ltd. (www.stonebroom.com)
Rob Howard is a founder of Telligent Systems, Inc. Prior to founding »telligentsystems Rob was employed by the Microsoft Corporation where he was a member of the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 team - specifically contributing to ASP.NET. Rob’s new company, »telligentsystems, is a solutions company specializing in building high-availability and high-scale software solutions. In addition, it also is building out a Knowledge Management product line whose first release is Community Server (see www.communityserver.org) which brings together and integrates some of the most powerful .NET solutions such as the Forums (used on forums.xbox.com) and .Text (used on blogs.msdn.com).
Julie Lerman is a Microsoft MVP, .NET mentor and consultant who lives in the hills of Vermont. You can find Julie presenting on data access and other Microsoft .NET topics at user groups and conferences around the world. Julie blogs at 
Michèle Leroux Bustamante is Chief Architect of IDesign Inc., Microsoft Regional Director for San Diego, and a Microsoft MVP for Connected Systems. At IDesign Michele provides training, mentoring and high-end architecture consulting services focusing on scalable and secure architecture design for .NET, web services, interoperability, federated security scenarios, CardSpace, and globalization architecture. Michele participates in Software Design Reviews for products in the Microsoft roadmap, including WCF, CardSpace and other security-focused products. During the Beta 1 phase Michele participated in prototyping elements of the CardSpace technology for the product team. She is a member of the International .NET Speakers Association (INETA), a frequent conference presenter, conference chair for SD West, and is frequently published in several major technology journals. Michele is also on the board of directors for IASA (International Association of Software Architects), and a Program Advisor and instructor for UCSD Extension. Her latest book is Learning WCF (O’Reilly 2007) – see her book blog here: 
Paul Litwin is a developer specializing in ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server, SQL Server Reporting Services, and related technologies. Paul is a Programmer Manager with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. He is also the owner of Deep Training, a developer owned training company specializing in .NET developer training (
Juval Lowy is a software architect and the principal of IDesign (
Microsoft program managers, architects, evangelists, developers, and product managers will present this session. The specific speaker will be assigned closer to the conference date.
Bradley Millington is a Program Manager on the ASP.NET team at Microsoft. His involvement in the ASP.NET project dates back to the beginning of the first version, but more recently he has been responsible for the new data access features in the Whidbey release. His feature contributions include the new data source controls architecture for simplified databinding and several new data-bound UI controls such as GridView, DetailsView, and TreeView.
As editor and main contributor to 4GuysFromRolla.com, a popular ASP/ASP.NET resource Web site, Scott Mitchell has authored literally hundreds of articles on Microsoft Web Technologies since 1998. In addition to his vast collection of online articles, Scott has currently authored five books on ASP/ASP.NET: Sams Teach Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0 in 21 Days (Sams); Designing Active Server Pages (O''Reilly); and ASP.NET: Tips, Tutorials, and Code (Sams), ASP.NET Data Web Controls Kick Start (Sams), and Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 24 Hours (Sams). Scott has also written a number of print magazine articles, including articles for Microsoft''s MSDN Magazine and asp.netPRO, as well as online content for Microsoft’s MSDN Web site. Scott''s non-writing accomplishments include speaking, training, and software development. Scott has spoken at numerous ASP/ASP.NET user groups and ASP.NET conferences across the country. Scott teaches classes on XML, Web Services, and ASP.NET at the University of California – San Diego University Extension, and is an independent trainer for local individuals and small businesses. Scott also works as an independent software developer, working on consulting projects and software solutions.
Russ Nemhauser is a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP and a Microsoft Certified Professional, and has served as an Architect, Developer, Team Leader, and Project Manager over the past several years. His projects have included enterprise applications, online commerce sites, and corporate intranets for Wall Street, Universal Studios, Microsoft, Seagram, and others. Russ actively participates in the development community through public speaking and technical writing.
Brian is Chief Architect of IDesign, a Microsoft Regional Director, and Connected System MVP. He is a frequent top-rated speaker at conferences worldwide including Microsoft TechEd, DevConnections, DevTeach, and others. He is the author of Developing Applications with Windows Workflow Foundation, Smart Client Deployment with ClickOnce, and Data Binding in Windows Forms 2.0. Brian got started programming as a hobby while flying F-14 Tomcats in the U.S. Navy, later turning his passion for code into his current career. You can contact Brian through his blog at 
With more than 15 years of consulting experience, 10 years of SQL Server experience, and 7 years of business intelligence and data warehouse experience, Carl enjoys facilitating knowledge transfer between experts, vendors, and users. He has worked closely with the SQL Server development and best practices teams for the past 5 years to publish a number of training and best practices documentation for SQL Server and Analysis Services. Carl has spent much of the past year working closely with the SQL Server development team and customers to test and document Analysis Services and Data Transformation Services in SQL Server 2005.
Stefan is a Program Manager on the Web Platform and Tools Team at Microsoft working on the new application services stack in Whidbey. He owns the Membership, Role Manager, Profile, Personalization and Site Navigation features. He also works on features for the Microsoft ASP.NET hosting solution. Prior to joining the ASP.NET team, Stefan worked as application development consultant in MCS.
Doug Seven is a Senior Product Manager for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, focusing on ensuring development teams are able to collaborate and communicate throughout the entire application life cycle. Prior to this role, Doug was a Senior Development Lead in Microsoft.com where he transitioned a "traditional" cross-functional development team to Agile methodologies using VSTS with Team Foundation Server. This transition included the implementation of test-driven development, paired programming, and Scrum. Doug has co-authored several books on Microsoft technologies, and spends a great deal of time engaging with, and supporting the community.
Sam Spencer is a Program Manager on the Web Platform & Tools team at Microsoft. As a program manager Sam is responsible for the planning, design and implantation of various parts of the web development features of visual studio including the source editing support and project system. Prior to working on the web development tools, Sam was a member of the Visual Basic team where he owned code editing and debugging.
Kimberly Tripp and Paul Randal are a husband-and-wife team who own and run SQLskills.com, a world-renowned SQL Server consulting and training company. They are both SQL Server MVPs and Microsoft Regional Directors, with over 30 years of combined experience on SQL Server. 
William (Bill) Vaughn is an industry-recognized author, mentor and subject-matter expert on Visual Studio, SQL Server, Reporting Services and data access interfaces. He’s worked in the computer industry for over thirty years—working with mainframe, minicomputer and personal computer systems as a developer, manager, architect, trainer, marketer, support specialist, writer and publisher. In 2000, after 14 years at Microsoft, Bill stepped away to work on his books, mentoring and independent training seminars. He’s written seven editions of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server and three editions of ADO.NET and ADO Examples and Best Practices for Visual Basic (and C#) Programmers. He and Peter Blackburn also wrote the best-selling and critically acclaimed Hitchhiker’s Guide to SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services. Bill is a top-rated speaker and frequents conferences all over the world including VSLive, Visual Studio/SQL Connections, DevTeach and VBug. He’s also written a wealth of articles for magazines such as SQL Server Magazine, Visual Basic Programmer’s Journal, .NET Magazine and many others as well as a bi-weekly editorial on developer issues for Processor magazine. Bill spends considerable time answering questions on the data-centric public newsgroups and speaking at user group meetings in Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and at his speaking venues all over the world. Bill was added to the INETA speaker’s list this fall. He’s available for consulting, mentoring or custom training. See 
Dan Wahlin (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for ASP.NET and XML Web Services) is the president of Wahlin Consulting which specializes in .NET and SharePoint consulting and training solutions. Dan founded the XML for ASP.NET Developers Web site (
Stephen Walther is a Microsoft Senior Program Manager who works with the ASP.NET MVC team to develop content around ASP.NET MVC. He is the author of the all time, biggest, best-selling book on ASP.NET, ASP.NET Unleashed. He is currently writing ASP.NET MVC Unleashed. Read his blog on ASP.NET MVC at 
Christian is co-founder of thinktecture, a European company aiding and supporting software architects and developers in designing and implementing distributed solutions. He has modelled and implemented distributed applications with Java, COM, DCOM, COM+, Web services and other technologies over the years, and recently he has been focusing on the ideas and concepts of service-orientation and their practical translation in customer projects, primarily using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). Visit him at