Sam Bent
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Summary
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RockstarSam Bent is a software engineer with a decade of experience focused on desktop UI and full-stack development, best known for principal contributions to the dotnet/wpf project. He has hands-on expertise porting fixes and enhancements from .NET Framework 4.8 into the .NET Core WPF codebase, touching UI elements, automation peers, and system parameters to improve usability and accessibility. Sam’s work on tooltip behavior and cross-component fixes demonstrates attention to both polish and robustness in user-facing systems. Comfortable navigating complex legacy-to-modern migrations, he brings pragmatic problem-solving to maintainability and platform compatibility. Although not widely publicized, his steady contributions to a flagship Microsoft open-source repository reflect deep domain knowledge in Windows desktop frameworks.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (14)
net10
asp-net10
uid10
wpf10
dotnet10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
accessibility9
debug8
automation8
automations8
debugging8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/wpf
Jun 2019 - Apr 2022
WPF is a .NET Core UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:81 reviews, 103 commits, 134 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the WPF framework by porting fixes and enhancements from .NET 4.8. These changes involved modifications across multiple components, including UI elements, automation peers, and system parameter configurations. The user also addressed specific issues related to tooltip behavior, focusing on improved usability and responsiveness.
xamldotnetuwpwindows-desktopwindows
SamBent/wpf
Dec 2019 - Feb 2022
WPF is a .NET Core UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.
Contributions:55 pushes, 94 branches in 2 years 2 months
xamldotnetuwpwindows-desktopwindows
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