Steve Fox is a program manager for Microsoft, where he’s worked for eight years. His background is in the areas of social computing, search technology, natural language, and, more recently, Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) and Office Business Applications (OBAs). He has presented information at many different conferences on VSTO and OBAs, and he is co-author of the book 6 Microsoft Office Business Applications for Office SharePoint Server 2007. He lives in Seattle, Washington, where he spends his time reading spy novels, watching movies, playing hockey, and, of course, working.

Rob Barker has worked for Microsoft Corporation for the past seven years. He is a senior technical evangelist in Microsoft’s Developer and Platform Evangelism group and focuses on Microsoft Office, SharePoint Products and Technologies, and Office Live development and architecture guidance. Check out his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/rbarker for information about his upcoming projects.

Joanna Bichsel lives in Redmond, Washington, and works at Microsoft as a program manager on the Office Platform Strategy team. She focuses on Microsoft Office development, evangelizing the platform and helping provide architectural guidance and resources for developers and architects building enterprise solutions on Office. She blogs at http://blogs.msdn.com/joanna_bichsel.

Erika Ehrli Cabral works at Microsoft, where she is currently the site manager and content strategist for the MSDN Office Developer Center. She focuses on acquiring, authoring, and releasing technical content for Office and SharePoint developers. Previously, she was a development consultant working for Microsoft Consulting Services Mexico, where she is originally from and where she joined Microsoft five years ago. Check out her blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/erikaehrli for information about Office development and her upcoming projects.

Paul Stubbs worked as a program manager with the VSTO team in Redmond, Washington. In addition to VSTO, he worked with the Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) team, developing a new managed code application programmability development tool for InfoPath 2007 and independent software vendors. He is currently working on the Office team, developing programmability features for future versions of Microsoft Office. He has written for MSDN Magazine and has spoken at such events as TechEd and TechReady. He is also co-author of VSTO for Mere Mortals: A VBA Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Office Development Using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office. He participates in the developer community on the Microsoft forums and on his blog, http://blogs.msdn.com/pstubbs.