Rockford Lhotka is an Author and columnist who writes on topics concerning Microsoft-centric computer programming with an emphasis on object oriented design strategies. He is a Microsoft Regional Director, a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, and an INETA speaker. He also writes for MSDN Online. Lhotka is the Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic Technologies.

A major contribution of Lhotka s is his Component-based Scalable Logical Architecture (CSLA) and its Microsoft .NET equivalent CLSA.NET. CLSA is an object oriented implementation framework that provides a standard way to create robust object oriented programs using so called Business object_(computer science). Though the framework is targeted toward Microsoft programming languages, most of its features can be used in other object oriented programming languages.

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