pdc2008

"Dublin" and .NET Services: Extending On-Premises Applications to the Cloud

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:51 GMT

Would you like to extend your existing SharePoint and .NET applications both on-premises and to the cloud in a non-intrusive way? This session will show you real-world examples of how to harness .NET Services workflow, access control and service bus to enhance business processes and add new capabilities to your application. We will demonstrate the use of "Dublin" Windows Application Server technologies to build extended application functionality. Lastly, you will see how workflow can be used to integrate across multiple organizations and the cloud. For ISVs, this session will provide a blueprint for how to sell more products to your installed base without requiring them to upgrade.

Jacob Avital
Koby Avital has over twenty years experience as a senior executive, GM (SVP/VP) of Engineering and CTO in highly competitive software companies in enterprise applications and solutions, networking, communications, Internet applications, Internet security and multi-tiers real-time systems. Koby join Microsoft two years ago from SAP (GM composite applications, and a co-GM of SAP’s Enterprise Service Architecture) and from PeopleSoft (Chief Scientist and HCM head of development). With Microsoft Koby is heading CSD technology and products integration projects with internal Microsoft products to achieve better alignment across divisions. Koby is using his broad experience and market understanding to influence Microsoft products direction aiming on providing short and long term solutions to existing and future markets

Developing Applications Using Data Services

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:37:45 GMT

In the near future, applications will be developed using a combination of custom application code and online building block services, including data-centric services. In this session we discuss advancements in the Microsoft development platform and online service interfaces to enable seamless interaction with data services both on-premises (e.g., ADO.NET Data Services Framework over on-premises SQL Server) and in the cloud (e.g., SQL Server Data Services). Learn how you can leverage existing know-how related to LINQ (Language Integrated Query), data access APIs, data-binding, and more when building applications using online data.

Mike Flasko

Services Symposium: Expanding Applications to the Cloud

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:37:34 GMT

Take an enthusiastic--yet pragmatic--look at cloud opportunities. First, hear about a model for determining what should be pushed to the cloud and what should be kept in-house. Second, explore examples of cloud-based infrastructure as part of an existing application. Finally, discuss architectural tradeoffs and best practices.

Gianpaolo Carraro
Simon Guest

Services Symposium: Enterprise Grade Cloud Applications

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:37:35 GMT

Today, hosted applications do not offer many of the features that large enterprises expect related to identity, management, and data. See detailed examples of "enterprise grade" hosted application design. Learn how to implement a federated identity scenario, enable remote application management, and provide richer control of data storage.

Eugenio Pace

Services Symposium: Cloud or No Cloud, the Laws of Physics Still Apply

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:37:36 GMT

Bandwidth is not infinite and certainly not free, latency is bound by speed of light, and storage density is increasing. How will all this affect your architecture? In this final session, we discuss emerging patterns that take into account the physical aspects of a cloud-based application.

Gianpaolo Carraro

Research: Designing the World Wide Telescope

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:36:08 GMT

Hear from the architect of the World Wide Telescope discuss the challenges and opportunities in creating World Wide Telescope as a massively scalable software plus services application. Understand the scale of the data, the communities and capabilities of user generated content, and the rich client application and the service behind it.

Jonathan Fay
Jonathan is a 15 year Microsoft veteran who focuses on studying the intersection of graphics/imaging and networks. He is currently the architect of Microsoft WorldWide Telescope. Jonathan is also an avid amateur astronomer and designed built his own automated domed observatory as well as helped develop the field of DSLR astrophotography. When he is not at work on WorldWide Telescope Jonathan tries keep up with his 5 children and explain to them the majesty of the stars.

Windows Azure: Modeling Data for Efficient Access at Scale

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:36 GMT

Learn how to use the highly scalable, available and durable table storage service. This session presents a deep dive with demos into the programming APIs and data models for structured storage.

Pablo Castro
Pablo is a Software Architect in the SQL Server group at Microsoft. He has worked in various areas of SQL Server and he's currently focused on making data and the web work well together with technologies such as Data Services (Project Astoria).
Niranjan Nilakantan

A Lap Around Windows Azure

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:51 GMT

Hear about key problems that cloud computing is solving and how these services fit into the Microsoft cloud computing initiatives. Learn about the pillars of the platform, its service lifecycle, and see how they fit with both Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies. Also, hear about the services roadmap over the next few years.

Manuvir Das
Manuvir Das is a Director in the Cloud Infrastructure Services division at Microsoft Corporation, where he has been working, with many others, on delivering a world class services platform to developers. In his other life, Manuvir is a reasearcher and an affiliate faculty member at the University of Washington. His research interests have been in inventing and applying techniques from Programming Languages, Compilers, and Systems to the software engineering process. He previously led the Program Analysis research group in the Center for Software Excellence at Microsoft. Manuvir has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from IIT Bombay, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Datacenters and Resilient Services

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:34:11 GMT

Microsoft Global Foundation Services (GFS) continues to learn by running online services while also building the next generation of services that are both resilient and cost effective. A key factor in realizing these goals is to apply innovation and lessons learned during the design phase. Take a look at the datacenter operations, and explore the challenges of managing large-scale services, such as Windows Live ID (WLID), which handle billions of transactions per day.

Benjamin Ravani
Ben Ravani is a General Manager in the Global Foundation Services at Microsoft. Ben brings 21 years of experience in the high tech industry from business planning and product development to services design and operations support. Ben currently leads an organization that manages over 100 of Microsoft’s online properties with 10,000’s of servers deployed in data centers globally providing services to Hundreds of Millions of users worldwide. The scope of his responsibilities includes managing services with over a Billion transactions per day and 10’s of millions of concurrent sessions. He is responsible for operating a number of platform services including Windows Live ID, Messenger and Anti Phishing. Ben has provided design consulting to services such as WLID, Microsoft’s online Billing platform, Microsoft’s Rights Management Platform, and Microsoft’s award winning Internet Safety platform. Ben joined Microsoft over 14 years. Since then, he has held various leadership roles at Microsoft involved in developing and building a number of products and services. Ben started his career in developing technologies in the automotive and aerospace industries. He led an engineering team in the Boeing 777 development program responsible for the Electrical and Avionics Engineering Computing. He holds a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Windows Azure: Programming in the Cloud

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:54 GMT

This session presents a detailed look at how services are programmed in the cloud, including the differences between the cloud hosting stack and a typical IIS7/ASP.NET hosting stack.

Daniel Wang
Stefan Schackow
Stefan works as a program manager on the ASP.NET team. He covers a number of areas in the ASP.NET core runtime, as well as having worked recently on the Html bridge feature in Silverlight 2.

Under the Hood: Inside the Windows Azure Hosting Environment

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:56 GMT

Learn about the internal service management system and virtualization technologies responsible for monitoring, configuring, and lifecycle management of the cloud computing environment. Hear about the mechanisms used to deliver self-healing, dynamic scaling, and auto-deploying cloud computing data centers.

Chuck Lenzmeier
Chuck is an architect in the Cloud Infrastructure Services team, focusing on virtualization. Chuck has been with Microsoft since 1989, and worked on all versions of Windows from NT 3.1 to Vista.
Frederick Smith

Showcase: Windows Azure Enables Live Meeting

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:34:07 GMT

The next generation conferencing team discusses why the cloud computing platform was selected for a next-generation, high-scale conferencing service that requires high performance and reliability and the ability to automatically adjust scale. The team shares learnings from the prototyping phase and discusses features on the cloud services roadmap that are central to their success.

John Shriver-Blake
John Shriver-Blake is in his fourth year at Microsoft and with the Live Meeting service engineering team. In his role as a Senior Lead Program Manager, he has been responsible for aspects of the service ranging from architecture to user experience. John was a key contributor to a significant overhaul of the Live Meeting service’s infrastructure and architecture. His work helped improve the services reliability and flexibility, and prepared the platform for the release of LiveMeeting 2007. John is also responsible for the LiveMeeting developer platform, maintaining and promoting the Live Meeting XML-API’s, and working with partners and customers who integrate with Live Meeting. John leads the PM team responsible for driving the user experience and feature set for these areas. John has a passion for software as a service and is excited by the challenges and opportunities available in the Unified Communications space.
Michael Conrad

Showcase: Windows Azure Enables /Nsoftware and Full Armor

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:34:09 GMT

Learn how early adopter customers built their services on the Microsoft cloud platform. Hear details about the experience related to design and development of their services, and why they chose to build their service on the cloud platform.

Gent Hito
Danny Kim
Danny Kim is a Microsoft MVP and recognized industry expert on Windows Group Policy, Active Directory, and PowerShell. Kim has helped more than 30 Fortune 100 companies, including Bank of America, Boeing, and Wal-Mart, design and deploy their Group Policy and DataCenter infrastructure. He has also architected and developed several leading Windows policy management products which have been licensed by Microsoft, NetIQ, Citrix, HP, Sony, Toshiba and others. Kim holds a BS in Computer Science from Cornell University.
Steve Marx

Showcase: How HP Built their Magcloud Service on Windows Azure

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:34:13 GMT

Hear from an online magazine publishing service that was prototyped on Microsoft cloud services. Learn from the development team about what they built, why they built it, and what they learned about the platform along the way.

Andrew E Fitzhugh
Steve Marx

.NET Services: Orchestrating Services and Business Processes Using Cloud-Based Workflow

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:32:46 GMT

See how simple it is to use cloud-based workflow services to run business processes in the cloud as well as perform orchestration across on-premises and cloud services while running workflows in an environment that scales automatically.

Moustafa Ahmed
Moustafa Khalil Ahmed is a Program Manager with the .Net Online Services team at Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA. Since joining Microsoft in 2000, he helped develop and ship multiple server products and development frameworks and tools including BizTalk Server 2004, Windows Workflow Foundation in .Net Framework 3.0 and Visual Studio 2008. Moustafa is currently focused on Cloud-Based Services and particularly Workflow Service.

.NET Services: Access Control Service Drilldown

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:32:48 GMT

This session shows how to use the access control service in your application. Learn how to secure your application or service using the Access Control service's APIs. We'll then drill into the protocols and security patterns the service uses along with explaining some of the service internals.

Justin Smith

Developing and Deploying Your First Windows Azure Service

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:31 GMT

In this session we take a tour of the capabilities of the Microsoft cloud platform by building and running a simple service using the platform SDK. The sample service highlights some of the features of the platform including service management, storage, and an integrated developer experience. This is a demo-heavy session.

Steve Marx

Windows Azure: Architecting & Managing Cloud Services

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:32 GMT

From design to deployment, building a scalable, highly available service is different from building other kinds of applications. This session discusses the impact that designing for the cloud has on all stages of the service lifecycle, and how the Microsoft cloud platform works for you to meet the scaling and availability goals of your service. This session will show how automation is used to free the developer from dealing with many hardware and networking issues. Also learn how the cloud services platform is architected to enable a pay-for-use dynamic model.

Yousef Khalidi
Yousef Khalidi is a Distinguished Engineer in the Clouds Infrastructure Services group where he is leading a team responsible for several components of a cloud computing platform. Yousef is responsible for several aspects of the platform, centered on the goal of building a low-cost, automated, large-scale computing system, using commodity hardware, with efficiently managed shared resources. Previously, he led an advanced development team in Windows that tackled a number of related operating system areas, including application management and isolation. Before joining Microsoft, Yousef was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems. At Sun, he held positions including CTO and Chief Architect of Solaris, Chief Architect of the Sun Cluster product line, and Chief Architect of Sun's N1 product line. He has a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Information and Computer Science from Georgia Tech.

Windows Azure: Cloud Service Development Best Practices

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:32 GMT

This session goes beyond the "Hello World" development experience, giving best practices across common tasks for serious service developers. These tasks include logging, debugging, deployment, management, and maintenance of individual services.

Sriram Krishnan
Sriram is a mild-mannered Program Manager on the Cloud Infrastructure Services team at Microsoft. Before this, he worked on Popfly and Visual Studio for Devices. He loves to game on his XBox 360 and tries to hide his love for all things Star Trek

Windows Azure: Essential Cloud Storage Services

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:33 GMT

Modern services need available, scalable and durable data in many forms, including both structured and unstructured data. This session presents blob, table and queue storage services and the APIs for manipulating and querying data.

Brad Calder
Brad Calder is Director/Architect of Cloud Storage, which is the essential scalable, available and durable storage for Microsoft’s Cloud Platform. Before Microsoft he was a Professor at University of California, San Diego in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and a co-founder of three startup companies: Entropia Inc., TracePoint Inc., and Bit-Raker Inc. He received his undergraduate degrees from University of Washington and his graduate degree from University of Boulder, Colorado.

Identity: Connecting Active Directory to Microsoft Services

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:32:50 GMT

Learn how to augment your existing IT infrastructure with Microsoft Services. Manage and secure end-user access to cloud services using your existing investment in Active Directory. Enable end users to access Microsoft services through existing Active Directory accounts, the same way they access your intranet-hosted software today. Hear how to enable existing software to use new service capabilities without re-writes, and do it all through the use of open and standard protocols.

Lynn Ayres
Tore Sundelin

.NET Services: Connectivity, Messaging, Events, and Discovery with the Service Bus

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:00 GMT

Learn how to use the service bus in the Microsoft .NET Services to address difficult connectivity, security, and discoverability issues.

Clemens Vasters
Clemens Vasters works as a Program Manager in the .NET Online Services team and is responsible for the 'Service Bus' feature area of Microsoft's upcoming Cloud Platform. Before joining Microsoft some 2 1/2 years ago, Clemens spoke at many conferences, taught technology, and helped companies with software architecture in over 35 countries. Since joining Microsoft, Clemens has mostly been in 'stealth mode' and worked on the WCF, Oslo, and the Cloud Services Platform teams.

.NET Services: Logging, Diagnosing, and Troubleshooting Applications Running Live in the Cloud

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:02 GMT

Learn the real world ways of tracking down and fixing problems on services and systems running live in the cloud. These black belt techniques and application patterns are used to simplify the operations and debugging of large scale services while they run. Also get a peek at how we run and monitor the .NET Services at Microsoft.

Mark Gilbert
Steve Garrity

Sync Framework: Enterprise Data in the Cloud and on Devices

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:05 GMT

See how synchronization plays a pivotal role in transitioning to a managed cloud environment by creating a central hub of information in the cloud. Using synchronization, organizations can enable more efficient mobile and enterprise-to-enterprise scenarios.

Liam Cavanagh

.NET Services: Access Control In Microsoft .NET Services

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:22 GMT

Learn how to manage access control to the ServiceBus, Workflow, and Data Services via the Access Control Service. This session illustrates the access control capabilities of these services, and several common patterns for building your application securely using the .NET Services, access control service.

Justin Smith

SQL Services: Tips and Tricks for High-Throughput Data-Driven Applications

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:18 GMT

Learn how to use the Authority-Container-Entity (ACE) concepts to build large scale, high-throughput applications using SQL Services and other cloud-based services.

David Robinson
David Robinson is a Senior Program Manager on the SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) team. David is responsible for a multitude of things including driving product features, code samples, and most importantly demonstrating to customers the value that SSDS and cloud computing provides. David enjoys getting out in the community, presenting on SSDS, gathering feedback, and helping to ensure SSDS meets whatever demands you throw at it. David has also written for MSDN magazine on developing solutions against SSDS. Before joining the SSDS team, David was a Solutions Architect on Microsoft's Health and Life Sciences team. Before joining Microsoft, David held various senior positions with a variety of software and consulting companies. David got his start as a developer at Computer Associates in the early 90's. When not working, David enjoys spending time with his wife and helping her corral their 4 young daughters.

SharePoint Online: Extending Your Service

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:20 GMT

Learn how to access and manipulate SharePoint files and data remotely with Web Services, customize your design and layout, and create workflows using Office SharePoint Designer 2007. See these extensibility points for SharePoint Online and more as we show you how to improve collaboration without running any on-premises servers.

Troy Hopwood

Case Study: Bridging On-Premises with the Cloud

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:28 GMT

Learn how CRM has designed and architected a single code-base to target a cloud-based and on-premises offering. The architect of Microsoft Dynamics CRM will describe how they look at using cloud services, the management and development patterns they use when moving an application to the cloud. This real world case study uses examples from the creation of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online.

David Shutt

Designing Your Application to Scale

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:21 GMT

Learn the concepts, benefits and challenges of scale-out application design. Partitioning your app, your data, introducing the concept of roles and dealing with inconsistent state across the system are all topics we cover. We use a lot of examples of how we've built several of the cloud services, the patterns that have emerged from different scenarios, as well as tell you how to get going on this with your application today.

Max Feingold
Max Feingold is a development manager at Microsoft, building frameworks for scalability and loosely-coupled messaging. His team’s vision is to make it incredibly easy for developers to build highly scalable web services. Max has been with Microsoft since 1999, working as a developer on COM, COM+ and Transactions. He shipped COM and COM+ in Windows 2000, XP and 2003, and led the development of the transactional stack underneath the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF/Indigo). He also worked towards standardizing the WS-Transactions family of interoperability protocols. Max is a native of Cortegana, Spain and received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Cornell University.

Showcase: Industry Leaders Moving to the Cloud

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:24 GMT

Senior architects from Accenture, Epicor and Infosys, who have been using Microsoft's cloud platform for the last while, walk through the applications they've built on the platform, the architectures they've used and the lessons they've learned on what works and what doesn't. Get a real world perspective and questions answered from architects who have been getting their hands dirty with cloud services.

Jitendra Thethi
Jitendra is a part of Microsoft Technology center at Infosys and an Architect on Catalytic IT, a joint IT Transformation Program with Microsoft. Currently he leads the Cloud Computing group and defines how various solutions and service offerings in Infosys should leverage this disruptive technology to provide a better value to our customers.
Larry Beck
Erik Johnson
Erik Johnson is Sr. Director of Product Research for Epicor Software, the 6th-largest global ERP software supplier and responsible for managing software architecture strategy and relationships with technology partners. Erik represented Epicor at the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I), where he contributed to the WS-I Basic Profile 1.0 and chaired the XML Schema working group. As an enterprise solutions architect, Erik was named to the Microsoft Architecture Advisory Board and a Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP. Prior to joining Epicor, Erik worked as a senior software architect and development manager at DataWorks Corporation.
Brandon Watson

A Lap Around the Azure Services Platform

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:32:13 GMT

Learn about the Azure services that enable developers to easily create or extend their applications and services. From consumer-targeted applications and social networking web sites to enterprise class applications and services, these services make it easy for you to give your applications and services the most compelling experiences and features.

John Shewchuk

Architecture of the .NET Services

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:32:14 GMT

Dive into the architecture that links many of the Microsoft .NET services and lets ISVs and businesses deliver compelling solutions. Learn how to compose these services with SQL Services to create applications in the cloud and connect them with on-premises systems. In this session we cover the next generation of messaging, data, access control, and directory services, and how they help developers.

John Shewchuk
Dennis Pilarinos

SQL Services : Under the Hood

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:32:15 GMT

Learn how we built SQL Server Data Services to address hard distributed systems and operations challenges. We describe how we solved problems like failure detection, leader election, and automatic failover using a new innovation called Distributed Data Fabric. We go deep and elaborate on the changes we made to the core SQL Server RDBMS to ship this massively scalable data service. We also describe the operational systems we use to provision, monitor, and manage SSDS without interrupting the service. Finally, learn how we manage and run this service in our datacenters.

Tony Petrossian
Gopal Kakivaya
Gopal Kakivaya is an architect working on the SQL data services team and is responsible for the distributed algorithms employed by SQL data services to achieve scale, availability, consistency, and self-management. He is passionate about distributed systems and has been a significant contributor to many Microsoft technologies, including COM/DCOM, COM+, CLR, SOAP, Web services, and SQL.

Identity Roadmap for Software + Services

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:32:27 GMT

The security demands on applications continue to grow in the face of compliance, online threats, and cloud- based software. In this session find out how to use Microsoft's portfolio of identity software and services to advantage your connected applications. Learn about the future roadmap for Identity and the claims-based architecture underlying it all, from Windows Live ID to Active Directory, from on-premises software to the cloud, and anchored in industry standard protocols.

Kim Cameron
Bertocci Vittorio

.NET Services: Messaging Services - Protocols, Protection, and How We Scale

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:32:27 GMT

Look under the hood of the Microsoft .NET Services service bus, the protocols we use, and how to use the services from non-Microsoft platforms and languages. Learn which part of the messages and requests the Building Block service inspects, which parts are not inspected, and how you can verify this. Also, learn how to work through NAT and Firewall limitations Last, hear about the architecture on the Data Center side that enables "Internet scale."

Clemens Vasters
Clemens Vasters works as a Program Manager in the .NET Online Services team and is responsible for the 'Service Bus' feature area of Microsoft's upcoming Cloud Platform. Before joining Microsoft some 2 1/2 years ago, Clemens spoke at many conferences, taught technology, and helped companies with software architecture in over 35 countries. Since joining Microsoft, Clemens has mostly been in 'stealth mode' and worked on the WCF, Oslo, and the Cloud Services Platform teams.

SQL Services: Futures

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:32:31 GMT

Learn about new capabilities in upcoming versions of SQL Services. See demonstrations of services like advanced query processing, sync services, and reporting services running in the cloud. Also learn about plans to integrate with other services.

Patric McElroy

SQL Server: Database to Data Platform - Road from Server to Devices to the Cloud

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:32:33 GMT

Cloud-based data services will change the way you develop and deploy applications, and SQL Server technologies are evolving to help you build data-driven solutions that span devices, desktops, servers, and the cloud. Learn how to use ADO.NET Data Services Framework (code name "Astoria"), SQL Server Data Services (SSDS), and the Microsoft Sync Framework. Hear how to build applications that can be deployed using SSDS in the cloud or SQL Server on-premises, and learn how to gain insights using the BI capabilities of Microsoft SQL Server.

David Campbell
David Campbell is a Microsoft Technical Fellow working on Cloud Data Platform technologies. Campbell has been with Microsoft for 14 years working on SQL Server and a number of other database and storage related technologies.
Zach Skyles Owens
Zach Owens is a Technical Evangelist focused on SQL Server and Business Intelligence. He has a background in competitor technologies developing web-based solutions spanning Oracle data warehouses to LAMP e-government applications, and is a recent Seattle transplant from Maui where he was developing medical logistics and intelligence applications.

A Lap around SQL Services

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:32:40 GMT

SQL Services is a set of hosted database services that supports high-scale distributed applications using SOAP and REST interfaces. Learn how to model data for high availability and scale, and see how to create new applications in the cloud or extend on-premises applications and services. Learn how to create, retrieve, and update all types of data-from blobs to flexible entities to schematized entities.

Soumitra Sengupta

SharePoint 2007: Creating SharePoint Applications with Visual Studio 2008

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:32:29 GMT

Learn how to use Microsoft Silverlight and SharePoint together. See us build a SharePoint application using the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint.

Chris Johnson
Chris is a Program Manager on the Windows SharePoint Services team. He focusses on the developer platform aspects of WSS. Previously Chris spent 5 years in MCS working on deploying SharePoint to some of Microsofts largest customers. Chris is from New Zealand & enjoys throwing himself out of perfectly good airplanes.