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.

Suggested Reading

Read and Recommended: Inbound Marketing and Small Business Trends

Steven Smith writes "...inbound marketing differs from outbound in that you are helping customers who may be looking for you or a service like yours, rather than reaching out to potential customers and interrupting them during whatever they’re doing and trying to drag them to your site. There was a great quote from Dharmesh that actually prompted me to buy this book:..." Read post »

TechTalk

How to Prevent Resharper From Adding Regions

Steven Smith writes "...I look through the options and nothing jumps out at me about how to adjust Region settings for NUnit tests. I manually removed the region and checked in my code...the steps...This is why I never found what I was looking for...Once you see this:...you’re pretty much there. All you need to do is look for things that say:..." Read post »

Editors Picks

How To Deploy a ZIP File to Windows Azure

Steven Smith writes "...the issue here is that a Build Action of “None” means the build and deploy features of Visual Studio will treat your file like a social pariah and ignore it completely...Visual Studio wants nothing to do with it...So the fix to get your ZIP files and other “content” to be deployed to the cloud as part of your Azure deployment package is to..." Read post »
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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