Lost In Tangent

So for those who don’t know already, I have taken a job at Microsoft. I will be acting as the technical evangelist for the .NET framework and Visual Studio. It was a hard decision to make since I was very happy at my current company (MethodFactory, who rock by the way), but the position represented a great oppurtunity for me to be involved in some really cool things. The team I’m on includes some rediculously smart and awesome people (Brian Keller, Justin Smith, Vittorio Bertocci, James Conard, Ryan Dunn, David Aiken, Drew Robbins).

I will be focusing on the features encompassed within the upcoming ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions that was spoken about by Scott Guthrie. As such you can expect to see lots of material posted by me around Astoria, ASP.NET MVC, the Entity Framework, etc. in coming months.

I would love to get some feedback on specific scenarios/features that people would like to see covered. Obviously ScottGu has done a good amount of coverage around the MVC space and I won’t be repeating what he has already said. The ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions are chocked full of a TON of cool stuff though, so there is plenty of awesome things to talk about.

You can email me at joncart at microsoft dot com.

Stay tuned