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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Mark Michaelis is the Chief Technical Architect at IntelliTechture, a software engineering and consulting company with high end skills in Microsoft VSTS/TFS, BizTalk, SharePoint, and .NET 3.0. Mark also serves as a Chief Software Architect and Trainer for IDesign Inc. Mark holds a BA in philosophy from the University of Illinois and an MS in computer science from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Starting in 1996, he has been a Microsoft MVP for C#, Visual Studio Team System, and the Windows SDK. He serves on several Microsoft software design review teams, including C#, the Connected Systems Division and VSTS/TFS. Mark speaks at developer conferences and has written numerous articles and books. When not bonding with his computer, Mark is busy with his family or training for the Ironman.

Visual Studio

Visual Studio Invaluable Debugging Keyboard Shortcuts

Mark Michaelis writes "...perhaps on occasion you need to debug some code in order to explain a complex algorithm, here are some invaluable debugging keyboard shortcuts..." Read post »

Visual Studio

Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts for Compiling

Mark Michaelis writes "...in this edition's keyboard shortcut tips and tricks, we are going to discuss compiling your code. For both Visual C# and Visual Basic schemes...One more minor note: If you install VMWare 6.5, it will re-map F6 to "Start debugging in a virtual machine," causing an "Unable to detect the current startup project" error dialog to appear. To correct this..." Read post »

SQL Server

Unattended Installation of TFS 2008 on Windows 2008 with SQL 2008

Mark Michaelis writes "...instructions for installing a new Team Foundation Server 2008 with SP1 onto Windows 2008 with SQL Server 2008..For the scripts to work successfully, you need the following placed into a local directory...." Read post »
North America

Mark Michaelis

Chief Technical Architect IntelliTechture & IDesign Spokane Valley, WA, US Send email to Mark Mark's blog  »

Technical Expertise .NET Development, .NET Framework, BizTalk Server, Building Distributed Applications with .NET, Migration to .NET, Office, SharePoint Products and Technologies, Software Architect, Testing
Years of Experience 16
Certifications MCAD, MCP, MCSD, MCT, METRO-C, METRO-T
Vertical Industries Served Accounting and Financial, Manufacturing, Engineering applications, Software Industry, Utilities