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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Andrew Brust: 20 years of software development experience including more than 10 years with Visual Basic (starting with version 1.0) and .NET since its beta stage in 2000. Frequently quoted in technology industry press. Co-author of Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (Microsot Press, 2008). Well-known author and speaker since 1994. VSLive co-chair, Tech*Ed co-chair, MS Business Intelligence Partner Advisory Council member and Microsoft MVP.

Serve as Chief, New Technology at twentysix New York, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, where I drive Evangelism, Strategy and Business Development.

Visual Studio 23 Aug 2010

LightSwitch Needs to Succeed and so do the People who Need it

Andrew Brust writes "...I think developers should be productive quickly and then have the opportunity to learn more and do even better. In other words, the skill levels should be Good and Better, rather than Bad and Good. LightSwitch makes that possible...Version 1 won’t be perfect. Version 1 is never perfect. If things go well, Version 1 proves a point, and..." Read post »
TechTalk 16 Aug 2010

New Microsoft Tools are they Harmony or Cacophony

Andrew Brust writes "Microsoft’s got a lot of good answers to a great number of important software development questions. Now it just needs to make those answers coordinated and consistent. If it can really integrate these tools, then..." Read post »
Visual Studio 03 Aug 2010

Microsoft LightSwitch Defends Productivity

Andrew Brust writes "...We need productivity programmers to be accommodated on the Microsoft stack. if they are not, they will go to other stacks. In fact, they already have. We have to try and get them back. They create opportunities for enterprise devs, and they create opportunities for their customers. I hope LightSwitch appeals to them. I hope it brings them back to the Microsoft ecosystem. I don’t know if it will. But..." Read post »
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Andrew Brust

Chief, New Technology twentysix New York New York, NY, US Send email to Andrew Andrew's blog  »
Technical Expertise .NET Development, .NET Framework, Active Server Pages, ASP .NET, SOAP, SQL Server, Visual Basic .NET, Visual Studio .NET, XML Web Services
Years of Experience 19
Awards Microsoft, Regional Director of the Year, 2008

Progressive Systems Consulting, the firm I founded and ran for 10 years, won Information Week's Web Site of the Week for May 18, 1998, for the S&P 500 Y2K Disclosure tool, developed for Deutsche Bank Securities.

Lead developer of a Bank of New York customer workstation application which won Best Financial Application in the 1992 Windows World Open at Comdex
Vertical Industries Served Accounting and Financial, Analytics and Reporting, Customer Relationship Management, E-Business, Project Management