Markus is the President and Chief Software Architect of EPS Software Corp. and it's various brands, such as CODE Consulting, CODE Staffing, CODE Training, CODE Framework and VFPConversion. He is also the Publisher of CODE Magazine. Markus is a Microsoft RD (Regional Director) and one of the longest-serving MVPs (1995-present). Markus is the founder of other business ventures, such as Wikinome, Tower48 (digital software escrow), Xiine, and more.

Markus has worked on a large number of software projects for some of the world's largest companies (including a number of Fortune 500 companies). Markus has worked as a contractor to the Microsoft Visual Studio team, and has worked closely with various product groups at Microsoft. Besides his activities around CODE Magazine, Markus has been published extensively in practically all large industry publications (mainly in English, but on occasion in German as well). He has received various and numerous awards and recognitions, many related to his active involvement in the community and his regular appearances at events of all sizes. Markus has also been involved in the creation and continued support of various user groups, conferences, and online events.

In his spare time, Markus is an enthusiastic Ice Hockey player, golfer as well as an avid windsurfer, traveler, and general enthusiast of sports such as scuba diving or mountain biking. On rainy days Markus either reads, enjoys a computer game, or researches new technologies.

Developer Community Activity

Markus is very active in the Microsoft Developer Community. Markus is a MS RD and MS MVP (one of the longest serving from 1995 to the present). Markus speaks at various large industry events such as TechEd or DevConnections as well as smaller Code Camps, User Groups and various INETA events.

Markus is also the creator of the State of .NET events. Those events are held both online (as a monthly series of webinars) and in-person at various locations around North America, Europe, Australia, and sometimes beyond. In these events, Markus discusses the current state of various development technologies and techniques (including, but not limited to .NET).

Markus is also an active author. Markus articles have appeared in magazines such as CODE Magazine, MSDN Magazine, Visual Studio Magazine, ASP.NET Pro Magazine, FoxPro Advisor, Fuchs, FoxTalk and Microsoft Office & Database Journal, and more.

Articles Authored

• .NET Data Access with LINQ: A VFP Perspective
• 10 Years of CODE
• 20 Cool Visual Studio .NET IDE Features
• A Silverlight to Illuminate the Path Ahead…
• Add a Safety Net to Your Software with Tower 48
• Anything To Declare?
• Are You Insecure?
• Aux Displays Rock!
• Being Ultra-Mobile
• Beyond the Mists of Avalon
• Building a 21st Century Application
• Building Polished UIs with Expression Blend - Part 1
• Can You Hear Me Now?
• CODE Framework: Building Productive, Powerful, and Reusable WPF (XAML) UIs with the CODE Framework
• CODE Framework: Accelerating Development with Standard Views and Standard View-Models
• CODE Framework: Building Services and SOA Business Layers
• CODE Framework: Creating Application Themes
• CODE Framework: Documents, Printing, and Interactive Document UIs
• CODE Framework: WPF Standard Themes
• CODE Framework: Writing MVVM/MVC WPF Applications
• CoDe Talks: Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft
• COM Queued Components
• Compare Constructors and Destructors in VFP and .NET
• Compare Events and Delegates in VFP and .NET
• Compare Inheritance in VFP and VS.NET
• Compare Interfaces and Polymorphism in VFP and VS.NET
• Compare Methods, Properties, and Fields in VS.NET and VFP
• Compare Static Members in VFP and .NET
• Compare Variables in VFP and VS.NET
• Compare Visual Inheritance in VFP and .NET
• Comparing VFP String Performance to .NET String Performance
• Converting XAML-Based Applications to Windows 8
• Create Bulletproof Components with COM Security
• Creating Smart Interfaces with Smart Tags and VFP 7
• Creating Tablet PC Applications with VS .NET
• C-Sharpest
• Data Access for Partially Connected Applications
• Do You Think In Ink?
• Editorial
• Editorial - Thinking about .NET
• Event Binding in VFP 8
• Find New Meaning In Your Ink With Tablet PC APIs In Windows Vista
• Get Control and Performance with the Real Time Stylus API
• Great Reasons to Ring In 2005!
• Have You Xiine It?
• How Many Threads Do You Need?
• How Microsoft Builds Community
• Implementing B2B Scenarios with Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000
• Improve Code with Enums
• Ink Recognition and Ink Analysis
• Into the Future
• Introducing .NET My Services
• Introduction to Tablet PC Development
• Learn Outside the Box
• LINQ
• LINQ Up!
• Loosely Coupled Events With COM
• Markus Egger Remembers 15 Years of CODE Magazine
• Modern Application Development: Visual FoxPro and .NET
• New at CODE Magazine!
• OOP: VFP vs. VS.NET
• Operator Overloading
• Pest Control
• Post Mortem: Tower48 Software Escrow
• Post Mortem: WPF and Silverlight Styling
• PostMortem: Harms Millennium MedSpa
• Put Your Team To Work!
• Shaped .NET Windows Forms
• Soldiering On
• Structured Error Handling in VFP 8
• Super Productivity: Using WPF and Silverlight’s Automatic Layout Features in Business Applications
• Talk to an RD: Ciprian Jichici and Markus Egger
• Talk to an RD: Dr. Neil Roodyn and Markus Egger - Part 1
• Talk to an RD: Dr. Neil Roodyn and Markus Egger - Part 2
• Talk to an RD: Tiberiu Covaci and Markus Egger
• Talk to an RD: Tim Huckaby and Markus Egger
• The "Basics" of Inheritance
• The Basics of GDI
• The Bottleneck in Modern Software Projects
• The Importance of a ModernDevelopment Approach
• The Importance of the Managed Platform
• The Missing LINQ
• The Power of Inheritance in .NET
• The Quest for the Killer App
• The Revenge of the Thick Client
• The State of WPF and Silverlight
• The Web at your service
• Thinking About Services
• Threading Support in the .NET Framework
• Three Cool New Features in C#
• Understanding Visual Inheritance in .NET
• Unveiling Windows SideShow
• User Interface Challenges
• Using GDI in ASP.NET Web Applications, Part 1
• Using GDI in ASP.NET Web Applications, Part 2
• Using Your Inheritance
• VFP Conversion Roadmap Whitepaper
• Welcome to Code Magazine!
• What an Amazing Five Years It Has Been!
• What’s New in CODE Framework in 2014
• What’s New in CODE Framework in 2016
• What’s New in Visual Studio 2017
• What's The Resolution?
• Where's Your Logic?
• Who's On First?
• Windows Presentation Foundation - an Introduction for VFP Developers
• WPF and Silverlight Super-Productivity: ListBoxes
• XAML Anti-Patterns: Code-Behind
• XAML Anti-Patterns: Layout SNAFUs
• XAML Anti-Patterns: Resource Overuse
• XAML Anti-Patterns: Virtualization
• XAML Magic: Attached Properties
• XML, XSL and HTML in Windows Applications
• Yes, We Can! 2009 Will Be Great!

Contact Information:

• Email: megger@eps-software.com
• Phone: 832-717-4445
• Blog: http://www.Markusegger.com/Blog