Brian A. Randell is a senior consultant with MCW Technologies, LLC. Brian spends his time between teaching Microsoft .NET -based technologies to developers, working with new and emerging technologies like Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio Team System, and consulting worldwide for clients such as Microsoft, American Honda, DELL, and others. Brian enjoys helping people get the most out of their software. He does this through training, consulting, and speaking at events such as VSLive!, Tech•Ed, and the PDC. In addition, Brian shares through the written word. He is the co-author of Effective Visual Basic and has written articles for MSDN Magazine and Microsoft. Brian has spoken this year at VSLive! events in San Francisco, Toronto, Orlando, and Las Vegas as well as at Tech Ed 2006 in Boston, MA. He will be presenting at Tech Ed 2006 in Barcelona, Spain, co-presenting a workshop on SQL Server 2005 as well as sessions on Team System. Reach Brian here.