Don Box

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Don Box is a Distinguished Engineer currently working at Microsoft.

Along with Bob Atkinson, Mohsen Al-Ghosein, and Dave Winer, Don was one of the original four designers of SOAP, a basic messaging layer for web services.

He currently^[when?] works in Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business (IEB) as a developer on next-generation platform technology for entertainment and gaming.

Prior to joining IEB, he worked on Brad Lovering's team working on model-driven runtime and tool support at Microsoft, including Oslo (Microsoft). Don was also an architect on Windows Communication Foundation (formerly known as Indigo) and related technologies.

Before joining Microsoft, Don was a contributing editor and columnist at Microsoft Systems Journal, which later became MSDN Magazine. Don was also a conspicuous figure in the Component Object Model (COM) community, where he coined the phrase "COM is love." He is also a series editor for Addison Wesley where he launched two successful series targeting the Microsoft developer audience.

Books

• Essential .NET, Volume I: The Common Language Runtime, with Chris Sells
• Essential COM
• Essential XML: Beyond MarkUp
• Effective COM: 50 Ways to Improve Your COM and MTS-based Applications, with Keith Brown, Tim Ewald and Chris Sells

External links

• Don Box's weblog
• Biographical interview with Don Box
• House of Don Box
• Don Box - Distinguished Engineer

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