Michele Bustamante

Michele Bustamante

CIO

Microsoft Regional Director (RD) Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP)

Michele Leroux Bustamante is a CIO of Solliance, a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP.

With 20 years of experience designing and implementing enterprise systems, Michele has held senior executive positions at several corporations, has assembled software development teams and implemented processes for all aspects of the software development lifecycle, and facilitated many successful large-scale enterprise application deployments. Michele specializes in scalable and secure web application and services architecture, cloud-enabled applications and operations, and identity & access management. Michele is a frequent conference presenter and keynote speaker, has chaired many conferences and events, and has been published regularly in several technology journals. Michele’s books include her best-selling book Learning WCF (O’Reilly, 2007/2009) and Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions.

Detailed Biography

Michele Leroux Bustamante is a CIO of Solliance, a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP.

With 20 years of experience designing and implementing enterprise systems, Michele has held senior executive positions at several corporations, has assembled software development teams and implemented processes for all aspects of the software development lifecycle, and facilitated many successful large-scale enterprise application deployments. Michele specializes in scalable and secure web application and services architecture, cloud-enabled applications and operations, and identity & access management. Michele is a frequent conference presenter and keynote speaker, has chaired many conferences and events, and has been published regularly in several technology journals. Michele’s books include her best-selling book Learning WCF (O’Reilly, 2007/2009) and Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions.

Articles Authored

  • Live from the Web! Bring the Windows Live Messenger Experience to Your Web Applications

    Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022

    Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2008 - Vol. 5 - Issue 2 - Windows Live

    Windows Live Messenger is one of the central offerings nestled among a suite of products and services under Microsoft’s Windows Live brand.For years online chat has been progressively and swiftly revolutionizing how you communicate with your friends, family, coworkers, and businesses you deal with. It is the foundation of the original chat room concept and the heart of instant messaging applications. Online chat-also called instant messaging or just “IM”-connects people for one-to-one or group chat, for social networking purposes, or for business directives, such as enabling access to technical support, customer services, or sales. Now, Windows Live Messenger supports a rich set of features for Web applications through the Windows Live Messenger IM Control, the Windows Live Messenger Presence API, and the Windows Live Messenger Library. The collective features of these products go beyond the simplicity of a chat application, making it possible to embrace this new era of social networking by leveraging your built-in Windows Live network within any Web application.

  • Hosting WCF Services

    Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019

    Published in: CODE Magazine: 2007 - January/February

    Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Services can be hosted with Internet Information Services (IIS); with the new Windows Activation Service (WAS) installed with IIS 7.0; or with any managed application process including console, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), or managed Windows service applications.Selecting the right hosting environment for your services is a choice driven largely by deployment requirements related to transport protocol and operating platform.

  • Fundamentals of WCF Security

    Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022

    Published in: CODE Magazine: 2006 - November/December

    Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a secure, reliable, and scalable messaging platform for the .NET Framework 3.0.With WCF, SOAP messages can be transmitted over a variety of supported protocols including IPC (named pipes), TCP, HTTP and MSMQ. Like any distributed messaging platform, you must establish security policies for protecting messages and for authenticating and authorizing calls. This article will discuss how WCF accomplishes this.

  • Behold WSE 2.0: Removing Another Layer of WS-Pain

    Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019

    Published in: CODE Magazine: 2004 - May/June

    The official release of Microsoft's Web Services Enhancements (WSE) toolkit promises to help developers deal with at least some of the pain and suffering accompanying the emerging Web services' standards.Updated to support the OASIS WS-Security specification and a promising WS-Policy specification, developers will be able to build standards-compliant Web services in less time and with less code.

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