Dan Fernandez
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"Dan Fernandez" is an American software businessman. the Lead Product Manager for Visual Studio Express at Microsoft corporation. He has worked for Microsoft since 2001 most recently he was the C Sharp (programming language)/C# Product Manager. Dan is a frequent speaker at events like Developer Days, TechEd, and Visual Studio Connections. His contributions include the Visual Studio Express products and creating the [http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/ Coding4Fun] Web site, a site dedicated to computer hobbyists including April Fool's Day pranks. Dan is one of the people that created SubservientProgrammer, an open source Office Space-like play on Burger King's Subservient Chicken.

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In five months we've had 5 million downloads, which is huge for a development tool.

It'll be an interesting and challenging time of transition for the new president.

There is certainly a set of people who are looking to become professional developers at some stage.

Our thanks again to you, the Visual Studio Express community, for making Express so successful and we hope to continue building great tools and samples to enable the next generation of developers.