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Rockford Lhotka is the Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic, a company focused on delivering business value through applied technology and one of the nation's premiere Microsoft Gold Certified Partners. Rockford is the author of several books, including the Expert C# VB 2008 Business Objects books. He is a Microsoft Regional Director, MVP and INETA speaker. He regularly presents at major conferences around the world. Rockford has worked on many projects in various roles, including software architecture, design and development, network administration and project management. Over his career he has designed and helped to create systems for bio-medical manufacturing, agriculture, point of sale, credit card fraud tracking, general retail, construction and healthcare.

TechTalk

Winning Recipe When it Comes to Application Architecture

Rockford Lhotka writes "...application architecture, in my view, includes “horizontal” and “vertical” concepts. Horizontal concepts apply to any and all applications and are largely orthogonal to any specific application design. These concepts include guidelines around authentication, authorization, integration with operational monitoring systems...Vertical concepts cover the actual shape of applications, including..." Read post »

Editors Picks

Azure Security Guidance Published

Rockford Lhotka writes "...important reading if you are using Windows Azure..." Read post »

TechTalk

Getting CSLA 4 Silverlight Codebase to Build in WP7 Beta SDK

Rockford Lhotka writes "...recording the various things I had to do to get the CSLA 4 Silverlight codebase to build in the WP7 (Windows Phone 7) beta SDK. This has nothing to do with getting anything actually running – this is just the stuff I had to change to get the code to compile..." Read post »
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Rockford Lhotka

Technology Evangelist Magenic Eden Prairie, MN, US Send email to Rockford Rockford's blog  »

Technical Expertise .NET Development, .NET Framework, Architecture, ASP .NET, BizTalk Server, Building Distributed Applications with .NET, C#, Data Access Technologies, LINQ, Migration to .NET, Public Speaking, Service Orientation, Silverlight, Smart Client, SOAP, Software Architect, SQL Server, SQLXML & XML Mapping Technologies, Visual Basic .NET, Visual Studio .NET, WCF, XML Web Services
Years of Experience 22
Certifications METRO-C
Awards Microsoft MVP
Vertical Industries Served Accounting and Financial, Analytics and Reporting, Customer Relationship Management, E-Business, Distribution, Sales and Inventory, Human Resources and Payroll, Manufacturing, Retail Sales