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Community Interview with Doug Rothaus (Beth Massi)

November 11, 2008 Nov 11, 2008 11/11/08
Beth Massi
This past month we've been posting interviews with the team from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole. This time we have Doug Rothaus, a writer on the documentation side. Doug has blogged up an XML cookbook here on the team blog with a bunch of "recipes" on how to use different features of XML Literals and LINQ to XML in Visual ...

Community Interview with Lucian Wischik (Beth Massi)

November 3, 2008 Nov 3, 2008 11/3/08
Beth Massi
Here's a community interview from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole, this time with Lucian Wischik, a Developer on the team. I'm just getting to know Lucian but he is a very interesting and bright person who is just a pleasure to talk with (I hope he starts blogging a lot more). When I told him that out Italian community had ...

Community Interview with Adrian 'Spotty' Bowles (Beth Massi)

October 31, 2008 Oct 31, 2008 10/31/08
Beth Massi
This past month we've been posting interviews with the team from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole. This time we have Adrian Bowles (who's nickname is Spotty), a Tester on the VB Compiler. Someday Spotty will have to tell us how he got his nickname.Please check out the Visual Basic Team page for pictures and bios and visit the ...

Community Interview with Sophia Salim (Beth Massi)

October 29, 2008 Oct 29, 2008 10/29/08
Beth Massi
This past month we've been posting interviews with the team from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole. This time we have Sophia Salim, a Tester on the VB Compiler. I'm very happy to see Sophia reach out to the community and am looking forward to more interesting posts from her here. I'm always interested in what really goes on ...

Community Interview with John Stallo (Beth Massi)

October 27, 2008 Oct 27, 2008 10/27/08
Beth Massi
Here's a community interview from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole with John Stallo, a Program Manager working on RAD tools. I first met John on my interview loop at Microsoft. What immediately stuck me when I met him was his Italian name but he has a very cool Australian accent. Being that we both have an Italian heritage, in ...

Community Interview with Eric Knox (Beth Massi)

October 25, 2008 Oct 25, 2008 10/25/08
Beth Massi
Here's another community interview from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole, this time with Eric Knox, Development Manager on the VB IDE Team. I got to know Eric at TechEd this year where we had a lot of fun floating in the pool on bright pink inner-tubes. ;-) You can also see Eric in the interview I did with the IDE Team a while ...

Community Interview with Bill Horst (Beth Massi)

October 22, 2008 Oct 22, 2008 10/22/08
Beth Massi
Continuing the community interviews from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole, this time we have Bill Horst, a tester on the VB Team. You might know Bill from his awesome series of blog posts on Converting SQL to LINQ.Also check out the Visual Basic Team page for pictures and bios and visit the home page of the Visual Basic ...

Community Interview with Me! (Beth Massi)

October 20, 2008 Oct 20, 2008 10/20/08
Beth Massi
Here's another community interview from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole, this time with yours truly. ;-) I decided to release this one today since it's my birthday. Don't forget to check out the Visual Basic Team page for pictures and bios and visit the home page of the Visual Basic Developer Center for a link to all these ...

Community Interview with Matt Gertz (Beth Massi)

October 17, 2008 Oct 17, 2008 10/17/08
Beth Massi
Here's another community interview from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole, this time with Matt Gertz. Matt still posts frequently on the VB Team blog even though he's changed roles (look at how big his name still is in our tag cloud on the right ;-)). Matt is a great technical leader here at Microsoft and he really loves the ...

Community Interview with Jared Parsons (Beth Massi)

October 15, 2008 Oct 15, 2008 10/15/08
Beth Massi
Here's another community interview from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole, this time with Jared Parsons, a Developer on the VB Team. Jared is a great developer and loves the community. You can check out his personal blog here.You can also check out the Visual Basic Team page for pictures and bios and visit the home page of the ...