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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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Michele Leroux Bustamante: 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 to UCSD Extension. Her latest book is Learning WCF (O’Reilly 2007) – see her book blog here: www.thatindigogirl.com. Reach her at mlb@idesign.net, or visit www.idesign.net and her main blog at www.dasblonde.net.
Bloggers 23 Nov 2009

PDC09 Microsoft Technology Overview Session - Code

Michele Leroux Bustamante writes "...At the PDC last week I presented a revamped version of my massive one-day presentation covering language trends, data access technologies, windows and web development, WCF and workflow, “Dublin” (now App Fabric), identity and cloud computing with Azure...jam packed session...link to the goods..." Read post »
TechTalk 17 Aug 2009

Surviving the Technology Avalanche

Michele Leroux Bustamante writes "...With these rapidly changing times, developers have a lot more on their mind and on their plate than they did at any point in recent time...the avalanche of technologies that builds upon these foundations can seem overwhelming...guided tour of the Microsoft technologies available today, tomorrow, and into the foreseeable future..." Read post »
Windows Communication Foundation 13 Jul 2009

Significant Updates to WCF Proxy Generator

Michele Leroux Bustamante writes "...some major improvements have been made to the ExceptionHandlingProxyBase type. Plus, a duplex version now exists...The proxy generator can be found at..." Read post »
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Michele Leroux Bustamante

Chief Architect IDesign Inc. Bonita, CA, US Send email to Michele Michele's blog  »
Technical Expertise .NET Framework, ASP .NET, Building Distributed Applications with .NET, Security, XML Web Services
Years of Experience 17
Awards Microsoft MVP, Connected Systems Instructor of the Year, UCSD Extension - 1995, 2003
Vertical Industries Served Accounting and Financial, Customer Relationship Management, E-Business, Human Resources and Payroll, Manufacturing, Project Management, Supply Chain Management, Healthcare, Software Industry