Don Box

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Don Box is a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft. At Microsoft, Don has worked on platform and developer technologies for .NET, SQL, and most recently, Xbox. Prior to Microsoft, Don roamed the earth helping developers come to terms with COM, Including writing Essential COM for Addison-Wesley.

Don Box

Don Box is a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft working on declarative languages and tools to simplify developing applications and services. In that role, Don is involved in creating languages, frameworks, and end-to-end experiences to help people translate their intentions and desires for software into a machine readable and executable form.

Don joined Microsoft in 2002 as an architect of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), where he worked on software to enable programs to safely and securely interoperate with one another. Don’s responsibilities included both the design and architecture of the runtime stack, as well as interoperability protocols with IBM and other partners.

Before joining Microsoft, Don was an independent consultant focused on software integration technologies. Don was the leading external voice for Microsoft’s Component Object Model (COM) and Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) and helped shape the way developers across the globe experience those technologies. In 1996, Don worked as a consultant to Software AG and Microsoft on the UNIX-based Distributed COM project; that work gave Don the desire to move away from shared-runtime distributed architectures and embrace data-centric message passing using XML. To that end, Don worked with Microsoft and Dave Winer to create the original SOAP specification in 1998.

Don is a respected writer on software development topics, serving as a series editor at Addison Wesley and as a contributing editor to C++ Report, Microsoft Systems Journal (MSJ), and MSDN Magazine. Don’s first book, Essential COM, remains a part of the C++ developer’s canon. Don was the first blogger to publish RSS from a Microsoft web property. Don has a Master’s degree in Information and Computer Science from U.C. Irvine and a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from C.S.U. Long Beach.

David Langworthy

David Langworthy, Brad Lovering, and Don Box (Redmond, WA) are developers on Microsoft's "Oslo" project and were the original three members of the M language team. David, Brad, and Don have worked together on languages, protocols, and runtimes, most recently on the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). Brad is a Microsoft technical fellow - Microsoft's top technical honor. Don has written several previous books, including the bestselling Essential COM.

David Langworthy

David Langworthy, Brad Lovering, and Don Box are engineers on Microsoft’s “Oslo” project and were founding members of the "M" language team.

David Langworthy

David Langworthy, Brad Lovering, and Don Box are engineers on Microsoft’s “Oslo” project and were founding members of the "M" language team.

Brad Lovering

David Langworthy, Brad Lovering, and Don Box are engineers on Microsoft’s “Oslo” project and were founding members of the "M" language team.

Brad Lovering

David Langworthy, Brad Lovering, and Don Box are engineers on Microsoft’s “Oslo” project and were founding members of the "M" language team.