About AllenD's Blog

Welcome to my blog.  My name is Allen Denver.  I've been with Microsoft since October 1994.  I joined at a time when Microsoft had around 12,000 employees (in 2008 we had well over 60,000).  I started in Product Support Services in Developer Support.  I supported the Base/Kernel apis in Win32 and Win16.  I joined the product group for VS 98 working on the Visual Studio Analyzer feature that shipped with the Enterprise Edition.  After that feature was discontinued I joined the VS Core team working on the VS platform and the VSIP SDK.  After shipping that for a while I decided to make a big move.

In May of 2007 I was fortunate to be offered a position in a new development office in Honolulu, Hawai'i.  The feature I work on now is known as the Architecture Explorer and Directed Graph Documents.  It's a way to visually display, analyze and maintain source code.  We work closely with the tools in the Team Architect Edition of Visual Studio and will ship in Visual Studio Team System 2010.

I moved my family to Honolulu.  This includes my lovely wife of 15 years, 4 of my 5 children (my oldest daughter is married and lives with her husband in Puget Sound) and two dogs.  Snorkeling, eukelele, the beach are all favorite activities these days.

I hope you enjoy reading my blog.  I'll continue to strive to bring fresh information about the areas I'm responsible for.