Announcing… Zag Studio!
After more than five years working for the WPF and Silverlight teams at Microsoft, I’ve decided to move on and start my own business.
Participating in the creation of WPF and Silverlight was a fantastic experience. I’m proud of the work we’ve done and I’m grateful for all the friends I made in these and related teams. The time is right for me to advance my career to the next level by creating my own company: Zag Studio LLC.
Zag Studio focuses on consulting, development and training for the Silverlight and WPF technologies. I’ve been having a blast helping customers take full advantage of the power of WPF and Silverlight. It’s been especially fun to utilize features that I helped shape to solve complex real-world problems in effective, well-designed, and performant ways. I am looking forward to helping many of you create compelling user interfaces using these technologies. Zag Studio doesn’t yet have a website, but I will announce it here when the time comes.
My career change will not affect the content of my blog in any way. I will continue addressing WPF and Silverlight topics relevant to business applications, since that will continue to be the focus of my work.
Wish me good luck!
Corrado Cavalli
Good luck with your new challenge Bea!
August 6, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Kurt Brockett
Best of luck Bea. It’s a great time for WPF and Silverlight.
August 6, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Justin Chase
Good luck!
August 6, 2009 at 10:46 pm
Mx
Congratulations and good luck !
August 6, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Alex
Good luck!
August 7, 2009 at 12:11 am
Kevin Daly
Good luck!
After all the great work you’ve done I hope it goes very well for you.
August 7, 2009 at 12:23 am
Francois
We all enjoyed your writings and exceptional knowledge of databinding. Hope you keep blogging.
Good luck!
August 7, 2009 at 12:27 am
Andrew
Starting your own business is very exciting, I wish you good luck with your company!
However I wish you write more articles on your blog
Like twice or at least once per week
As you participated to the creation of WPF and Silverlight I bet you have lot of knowledge to share.
August 7, 2009 at 1:14 am
ARtur
Good luck! Hope the new site will be up soon!
August 7, 2009 at 1:34 am
Ira
Love the naame of the new company, it seems there is an abundance of activity in this blog now. Looking forward to the updates.
August 7, 2009 at 1:38 am
Jeremy
I’m sure your company will rock !
You’re very good at teaching and explaning complex stuff
Good luck with this new life !
August 7, 2009 at 1:46 am
David Roh
Hi Bea,
Thank you for all the grest XAML posts in the past.
With your skill set I would expect you to do very well with Zag Studio.
Good luck with your new business.
David
August 7, 2009 at 2:12 am
Marc Roussel
Hi,
I started using WPF but it was the time when Silverlight was coming out as beta 1.0 and if I’m right it was April 2007. Since then I’ve been learning Silverlight all the way until today. I was waiting for that technology since a long time. I love it
Like me, this is something I often thing but I can’t effort right now which is to go travel with just the clothes I have on and a laptop of course
to places where there’s less cars on the road because I hate this stupid machine.
I wish you the best and thank you for your blog which helps understand a little more the whole thing.
August 7, 2009 at 3:01 am
Linus Roslund
Sounds like exciting plans
I wish you all the luck.
Regards, Linus and Dotway/Oredev i Malmö, Sweden
August 7, 2009 at 3:06 am
Håkan Reis
Very best of luck with your company Bea!
See you at Øredev in November
Håkan Reis / Dotway
August 7, 2009 at 3:12 am
Kent Boogaart
Best of luck, Bea! Your blog has been very helpful over the years and you will be missed.
August 7, 2009 at 3:15 am
marlon grech
Best of luck Bea
!!!!!!!
You’re still our DataBinding Queen!!!!!
August 7, 2009 at 3:26 am
Colin E.
Your blog has been a constant source of high quality, insightful articles. I am sure Zag Studio will be a winner!
Regards,
Colin E.
P.S. Does ‘Zag Studio’ actually mean anything?
August 7, 2009 at 3:59 am
Eric
Good luck!
I’m quite new to WPF and while looking for solution to my problems over the Internet I often stumble upon your blog.
Keep up the good work.
August 7, 2009 at 4:11 am
Teusje
Good luck with your business!
I hope you don’t charge us for asking questions on the blog here
August 7, 2009 at 4:13 am
Steven Holdsworth
Wishing you all the best, I know you will do really well!
August 7, 2009 at 6:10 am
Pete O'Hanlon
Bea - congratulations on the move. I’m sure that you’ll have nothing but success.
August 7, 2009 at 6:13 am
Karl Shifflett
Best to you always Bea! You are and will always be the “First Lady of Data Binding.”
Looking forward to hearing about “Zag Studio”
Cheers,
Karl
August 7, 2009 at 6:21 am
Jeremiah Morrill
Moving over to your own business can be pretty scary, but there is nothing more rewarding! Good luck and I can’t wait to see Zag’s website and services :)!
-Jer
August 7, 2009 at 6:49 am
Joan Miro
Bea,
Your blog has always been the WPF/XAML/Silverlight font of all DataBinding knowledge and helped me out countless times. Good Luck in your new endeavour - I’m sure you will go from strength to strength!
And please, please, please - Keep blogging!
Gordon Mackie/Joan Miro
August 7, 2009 at 6:50 am
Davide Zordan
Best of luck!!!
August 7, 2009 at 6:50 am
Bigsby
Good luck.
August 7, 2009 at 7:06 am
Laurent Bugnion
Good luck in your new adventures
It’s a big loss for Microsoft but hopefully a great success for you!
Cheers,
Laurent
August 7, 2009 at 7:22 am
Eric Burke
Congrats and good luck, Bea! Thanks for all the help over the years… and I look forward to seeing what Zag studio is up to!
August 7, 2009 at 7:25 am
Srikanth
Congrats! All the best for your new company!
You are still our Queen of WPF though!
August 7, 2009 at 7:28 am
sacha
All the very best Bea, hope it works out for you. That beer may have to wait then.
August 7, 2009 at 7:40 am
Michael Sync
All the best! I have been the regular reader of your blog since I started working with WPF technology. It’s a bit sad to hear that you are leaving Microsoft (esp: WPF team)… I hope you will be able to keep on writing helpful WPF tips for us. And I’m also wishing you ‘good luck” as well..
August 7, 2009 at 7:50 am
Josh Smith
Congrats, Bea! Good luck with your new venture.
August 7, 2009 at 8:03 am
Dave
Congratulations Bea…
I’m sure with your knowledge you will do great.
I hope you have lots of good on-topic posts I can blog about!
August 7, 2009 at 9:03 am
Basit Tanveer
Best of luck!
August 7, 2009 at 9:04 am
Tamir
Good luck. Seemed like MS lost while win for Zag and you
August 7, 2009 at 9:09 am
Michael Brown
Best of luck in your new ventures Bea!
August 7, 2009 at 9:21 am
Stephen Price
Hey Bea,
You must be so excited starting out on this new adventure!
If you are ever in Perth for holidays look up the Silverlight user group here (SDDN) and we’ll make you feel welcome!
cheers,
Stephen
August 7, 2009 at 9:26 am
Nigel Stratton
As the Number One Queen of DataBinding I know you will rock in the real world.
Keep on blogging so that we might be brought in from the cold wilderness of WPF ignorance.
August 7, 2009 at 11:09 am
Joaquim Rendeiro
Congratulations & boa sorte!
Oh, and remember to keep your blog interesting as always
August 7, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Brian Henderson
Congratulations Bea. We all are looking forward to seeing and reading about your future successes. All the best to you as you start your new (ad)venture with Zag Studio.
August 7, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Josh Marinacci
Hi Bea. Congrats on starting your new company. I look forward to seeing the website.
BTW, does this mean you guys won’t be coming back to OreDev this year?
August 7, 2009 at 11:44 pm
Thomas Lebrun
Congratulations and good luck Bea !
August 8, 2009 at 8:25 am
rj
Congratulations Bea! I’ve missed you on the team, but I’m sure you’ll love the consultancy world!!
rj
August 9, 2009 at 12:16 am
Kyle Yuan
Wish you the best with your new journey, Bea!
August 9, 2009 at 4:01 pm
tawani
Félicitations et bonne chance Bea!
August 10, 2009 at 5:49 am
Teresa Costa
Parabéns e boa sorte.
Agora tenho eu de te seguir o exemplo.
August 11, 2009 at 1:39 am
Brandon Strevell
Congratulations and good luck!
August 11, 2009 at 7:27 am
Adam
Congratulations Beatriz.
We’ll be checking Zag Studio for great advice in the future.
Thanks for all your help,
Clark.
August 11, 2009 at 8:42 am
Yun Zheng
Best wishes for you and your Zag Studio!
August 18, 2009 at 1:38 am
Madhukar
Good luck for your future endeavours.
August 18, 2009 at 3:57 am
Writebyte solutions, India
We have benefited from your posts on databinding. Wish you success and good luck in your venture and hope to be associated professionally with you someday.
August 20, 2009 at 7:05 am
Scott Gurvey
Your blog has been a great help to me as I try to understand these technologies well enough to explain them to a non-technical television audience. I wish you well in your new endeavor and look forward to your future posts.
August 28, 2009 at 6:41 am
Eylon
Thank you for your great blog.
Congratulations on your new company, you have been a helpful part in developing my projects and by doing so developing my consulting company, thank you.
Remember what a great man said about life: life may be a ‘Great Balancing Act,’ but through it all ‘There’s fun to be done.’ (Dr. Seuss)
Good luck,
Eylon
September 1, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Max
Wow!!! :o)
Congratulation, Bea.
Ciao, Max
September 5, 2009 at 6:38 am
Tony
A tough decision, I’m sure, but exciting. You have been a great help since the beginning and it was a pleasure talking with you at the Deep Dive in Redmond oh so long ago. I wish you the best with the company and hope the blog continues at its current level of quality and depth. If you’re ever hurting for relevant LOB/WPF topics I’ve got a list I always dream I’ll blog about someday but never do (ex: focus management - esp in a MVVM implementation). Cheers!
October 23, 2009 at 9:40 am