Rob Windsor is a developer, trainer, writer and Senior Consultant with ObjectSharp Consulting - a Microsoft Gold Partner based in Toronto, Canada. He has over fifteen years experience developing rich-client and web applications with Delphi, VB, C# and VB.NET and is currently spending a majority of his time working with SharePoint.
Rob is a member of both the INETA Speakers Bureau and the MSDN Canada Speakers Bureau and is a regular speaker at conferences, code camps, and user groups across North America and Europe. He is President of the Toronto Visual Basic User Group and has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for his involvement in the developer community.
Current Projects
- Lead developer on project to build SharePoint web sites for Woodbine Entertainment
- Co-authoring a book on Visual Basic 2010 and .NET 4.0 for Wrox
- Teaching courses on .NET development, SharePoint and related technologies.
Recent Projects
- Architect and lead developer on a project to add a newsletter subsystem to an existing SharePoint 2007 site
- Architectural and system review for a set of internal SharePoint 2007 and ASP.NET sites
- TechEd 2009: Presented Strategies to Upgrade Your Visual Basic 6.0 Applications to .NET
- TechEd EMEA 2008: Presented Integrating ASP.NET AJAX with SharePoint 2007
- TechEd 2008: Presented Strategies to Upgrade Your Visual Basic 6.0 Applications to .NET
- Heroes Happen {Here} Vancouver: Presented Architecting Next Generation Business Solutions with Visual Studio 2008.
- Mentor/Technical Advisor: Reviewed specifications and implementation of a public facing SharePoint Web Content Management project.
- dnrTV Guest: Interviewed on VB 6.0 Interoperability with .NET.
- Article: Using Custom Business Objects with Windows Communication Foundation written for the Visual Basic Developer Center on MSDN.
- QCon San Francisco 2007: Presented REST, JSON and RSS with Windows Communication Foundation 3.5.
- DevLink 2007: Presented Performing a Phased Migration from VB 6.0 to .NET with COM Interop and What's New in Visual Basic 9.
- Article: Getting Started with Windows Communication Foundation written for the Visual Basic Developer Center on MSDN.
- TechEd Orlando 2007: Finalist in the Speaker Idol contest.