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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Kate Gregory: Kate has over two decades of scientific and engineering programming experience in a variety of programming languages including Fortran, PL/I, C++, Java, Visual Basic, and C#. Her recent programming work is almost exclusively in Visual C++ and Visual Basic.NET, on a variety of projects, for both Enterprise and ISV clients. Since January 2002 she has been Microsoft Regional Director for Toronto and since January 2004 she has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional designation for Visual C++. In June 2005 she won the Regional Director of the year award. Kate is the author of over a dozen books including Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003 Kick Start. She teaches .NET, XML, UML, and C++ and is in demand as an expert speaker, with numerous cross-Canada tours for Microsoft Canada, and sessions at DevDays, TechEd (USA, Europe, Africa) and VSLive Toronto, among others.

Editors Picks

Celebrating 40 Years of the Internet

Kate Gregory writes "...The BBC has a nice article about it. The Globe and Mail tosses in a quick summary of the history of the internet...link to my post that points to a more comprehensive summary in Vanity Fair. If you think the Internet is just the web, all I can say is you missed a golden age. These days..." Read post »

TechTalk

Ways to Access an MSDN Subscription

Kate Gregory writes "... have an MSDN subscription. If you can't afford it and your company is new, take a look at BizSpark which makes it free. If you're not new or your company doesn't make software, look at...for everyone else, this is..." Read post »

Visual Studio

Rico Mariani and the History of Visual Studio

Kate Gregory writes "...So far he's up to 8 parts and they make for great reading. He goes into some of the technical challenges the teams faced, and talks about cancelled and sidelined projects along the way. He's made a category for..." Read post »
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Kate Gregory

Partner Gregory Consulting Limited Pontypool, Ontario, CA Send email to Kate Kate's blog  »

Technical Expertise .NET Development, .NET Framework, Accessibility, Application Compatibility, Application Integration, ASP .NET, Building Distributed Applications with .NET, Business Architect, C++, Concurrency, Data Access Technologies, Migration to .NET, Project Management, Public Speaking, SharePoint Products and Technologies, SQL Server, Visual Basic .NET, Visual Studio .NET
Years of Experience 30
Awards MVP for Visual C++ since 2004 INETA Speakers Bureau
Vertical Industries Served E-Business, Human Resources and Payroll, Manufacturing, Project Management, Education, Non-Profit, Software Industry