My name is Michael Dobler. I'm Austrian and currently living with my wife and our two children in Edmonton, Canada where I work as the Lead Software Developer for A. D. Williams Engineering Inc.
Originally a civil engineer I soon found out that my interests lay in the fields of languages and computer sciences. After some years on University studying English and Russian I decided to skip languages for computers and started over in the IT sector.
Tackling several languages including VB, Omnis, SQL Windows (somebody remembers these?) and others I finally met VB.net and fell instantly in love with it -- and this is what this site is all about: to show you that you can do quite everything in VB.net (or any other .net language for that matter)...
My newest addition to the ever growing technologies would be ASP.net. I tried to avoid web development for a long time but I finally had to tackle it. Let's see where it takes me
Mike Dobler / MCAD
Why Steepvalley?
The reason why I called this site steepvalley.net is quite simple: every domain with Dobler was already taken and because, simply translated, Dobler means "somebody living in or near a ravine or steep valley" (I got that one from a genealogy print my brother brought me as a phony gift from the U.S...), I thought of it as a pretty good name.
And it pretty much describes the area I grew up and still live in: the southern corner of Lake Constance where Austria, Switzerland and Germany share their borders.
Book About XPCC Available
I'm proud to anounce that the XP Common Controls are part of the newly released book "Windows Developer Power Tool" by James Avery and Jim Holmes (O'REILLY). This book contains references to over 170 free and open source tools, components and frameworks, all of them coming with a mini user's guide.
Please check out their homepage at http://www.windevpowertools.com or buy the book here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596527543/infozerk-20 - it will save you a lot of time and money when creating your next .net project.
My thanks to Jim and James for asking me to contribute to this book.
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