The Region at MicrosoftRegionalDirectors.com

Welcome to The Region, global hub for the 140 software architects, developers, trainers and other professionals selected by Microsoft as Regional Directors. The first thing to know is that, while we’re officially recognized by Microsoft and often receive inside information about forthcoming technologies, we are completely independent. We are not Microsoft employees. As to The Region, it’s designed to help us circulate insights, information, inspiration and inquiries among RD’s and among the broader developer community. And it's an experiment. We hope you find it useful. We hope we find it useful, too.


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Derek Hatchard: Derek is a web entrepreneur, consultant, and trainer/mentor. He is also a Microsoft Regional Director, Microsoft MVP, author, and speaker. He blogs at www.ardentdev.com and www.derekhat.com, and he co-hosts a developer podcast at www.devcasting.com.

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Tuning into the Right Wireless Networking Channel

Derek Hatchard writes "...The hard core geeks know that to optimize your wireless networking experience you want to select a channel that is unused by other nearby wireless devices. If you run Windows 7 (or Vista), use the following command at the Command Prompt to see the channels and signal strength of nearby networks:...Find a hole, ideally at least five channels away from.." Read post »

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Run Multiple Desktop Shortcuts At Once

Derek Hatchard writes "...Here’s a simple way to create a master shortcut to launch everything:..." Read post »

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RDs and MVPs Featured in Free Developer Ebook

Derek Hatchard writes "...Many of the contributors are Microsoft MVPs and/ Microsoft Regional Directors...It’s a free download and released under a Creative Commons license, which is a very cool thing to come out of Microsoft..." Read post »
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Derek Hatchard

Web Entrepreneur / Consultant Web Radius Inc. Moncton, NB, CA Send email to Derek Derek's blog  »

Technical Expertise .NET Development, .NET Framework, ASP .NET, Building Distributed Applications with .NET, Tablet PC, User Interface, Visual Basic .NET, Visual Studio .NET, Windows Server 2003, XML Web Services
Years of Experience 11
Certifications MCAD, MCP, MCSD

01 Aug 2010Developers Developers Developers Developers eBook
01 May 2010Ardent Dev Site