Carsten Thomsen

Senior .NET Systems Architect

Carsten has been working with computers since the days of the first IBM XT PCs and as a developer he has primarily been working with Visual Basic, but also Object Pascal, the pre-Delphi OO language from Borland. Although analysis and development is where Carsten spends most of his time, he also has experience in working as a Team and Project Leader. He is fluent in English, German and Danish.

Besides working with software, Carsten also enjoys “playing around” with hardware whenever he has the time. It gives him a better understanding of how it all works.

These days Carsten works exclusively with .NET projects. He has more than 2 years experience working with the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET. Carsten specializes in data access, primarily SQL Server, but also diverse databases such as MySQL. Besides his passion for data access, he has also spent numerous hours working with XML Web services, which is a new field which particularly interests him.

Carsten is a Microsoft Visual Basic MVP four years running and he’s the author of the following Apress™ books: “Database Programming with Visual Basic .NET”, “Database Programming with Visual Basic .NET, Second Edition”, and “Database Programming with C#”. These books have been published, and currently Carsten is working on the following two titles, to be published early 2003: “Enterprise Development with Visual Studio .NET, UML, and MSF” and “Building Web Services with Visual Basic .NET”.

MCSE/MCSD/Microsoft MVP VB