Known by many affectionately as "the Crown Prince of COM." Co-founder of Develop
Mentor, former columnist at
CppReport, and contributing editor to
MicrosoftSystemsJournal. Considered by many to be the most knowledgeable person on
ComponentObjectModel on the planet.
Author of
EssentialCom (ISBN 0-201-63446-5);
EffectiveCom (ISBN 0-201-37968-6) with
KeithBrown,
TimEwald, and
ChrisSells;
Essential .NET (ISBN 0-201-73411-7); and
Essential XML (ISBN 0-201-70914-7).
Now, one of the main designers of the
SimpleObjectAccessProtocol, he is known for his stunts at conferences such as
TechEd Europe 2001, where he presented while sitting semi-naked in a bath of soap bubbles.
Don left Develop
Mentor in November 2001. Most of Don's core team left shortly thereafter. The highest concentration of DM expats is
MicroSoft and
PluralSight.
Don joined Microsoft in 2002 as an Architect on the
MicrosoftIndigo project, which begat (amongst other things) WCF.
Don worked on the
EmLanguage with
ClemensSzyperski,
ChrisAnderson,
ChrisSells, and other less famous but more talented developers. While working on data and modeling stuff, he led the engineering team that produces OData, EDM, Entity Framework, and the Visual Studio support that ships with SQL Server "Denali."
Don now works in the interactive entertainment division, which is a fancy way of saying he joined the Xbox team.
See "Don Box's Spoutlet" at
http://www.pluralsight.com/blogs/dbox/ .
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