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I’ll be speaking next week at the East Bay.NET User Group in Berkeley as well as delivering a MSDN webcast on What’s New with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 11. I hope you can either make it in person or join in online to see and discuss the exciting new features LightSwitch will bring you. I always have...

Join me next month as I take you on a tour of the new features of LightSwitch in Visual Studio 11 . What's New with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 11 Friday, May 11, 2012 1:00 PM Pacific Time Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch is the simplest way to build business applications and data services for the...

Last week I had the pleasure of speaking again at Techdays Netherlands on Visual Studio LightSwitch . It’s my third time speaking there and the venue is top-notch at the World Forum in The Hague. Check out all the session recordings for Techdays 2012 on Channel 9 . Introducing Visual Studio LightSwitch...

Tomorrow evening I’ll be presenting Visual Studio LightSwitch to Sac.NET in the Sacramento area. Please come join us! I always try and make it a fun and lively presentation and I’ll have tons of demos. Here are the details: When: Tuesday, November 29th at 6:00 PM Where: Rancho Cordova Library, 9845 Folsom...

I’ll be speaking about LightSwitch next Wednesday in Mountain View so if you’re in the area come on out and I’ll show you what LightSwitch can do for you! See how to build business applications in light speed…. Building Business Applications in Light Speed with Visual Studio LightSwitch When: Wednesday...

Check it out, I’m back with the always entertaining Carl Franklin on dnrTV showing some tips and tricks you can use in your screens and queries. See how you can add command bars to any control, create custom search screens, pass parameters into queries, and fine-tune the layout of your screens. Watch...

Thanks to Peter Kellner and all the folks that made for another extraordinary Silicon Valley Code Camp this year! There were over 2300 people that came to Foothill college in Los Altos this weekend. And what gorgeous weather we had!     Thanks to all those folks who came out to my LightSwitch...

Code Camp is a type of community event where developers learn from fellow developers. All are welcome to attend and speak at these FREE events that happen all over the world. Sessions range from informal “chalk talks” to full-blown presentations. There is usually a mix of presenters and skill levels...

This month I spoke in Fresno, L.A., and Phoenix areas on Visual Studio LightSwitch . I broke up the “tour” into two driving trips since I spoke in Fresno on the 11th and then had a week in between before I left for L.A. and Phoenix last week. Of course, road trips would require me to tack on a couple...

I’ve got a few speaking engagements at some .NET user groups coming up in the next couple weeks. If you’re in the area and want to know what Visual Studio LightSwitch is all about, what it can do, and how to make the most out of developing LightSwitch applications come on and check me out… er… I mean...

Looks like I missed this! Carl released a dnrTV on Monday that we did together while I was in Montreal for DevTeach last week. Check it out: Beth Massi on Advanced Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2 Here I walk through the array of customizations you can do with LightSwitch from writing LINQ queries, to...

Last week I spoke at TechEd North America in lovely Atlanta, Georgia. Always an amazing (and huge) conference, this year was a little more special for me as one of the faces of Visual Studio LightSwitch , the newest edition of the Visual Studio family, which had a lot of great presence and excitement...

Recently I spoke at DevDays 2011 in The Hauge, Netherlands , and what a show! It’s my second time speaking here at the World Forum – a great venue that holds a few thousand people. This is a professional developer and IT Pro conference that they put on every spring. I did 3 sessions and 1 “geek night...

Last week I spoke at DevDays in the Netherlands and what a fun show! They just posted my session Introduction to Visual Studio LightSwitch on Channel 9 so check it out when you have a chance, I think it went really well. The room was about 500 people so there was a lot of interest from professional developers...

Recently I spoke at MS Days in Sofia, Bulgaria on a couple different programming topics. This is the second time I’ve been to Sofia, the first time was last October for DevReach . I really like Bulgaria and Bulgarians are super friendly, smart, tech-savvy, and on average the attendees were pretty young...

The Visual Studio BizApps team has joined forces with the awesome developer evangelists in the West region to bring you some expert SharePoint 2010 training in March that you can’t miss. Come learn how to effectively use Visual Studio 2010 to develop and manage solutions for SharePoint 2010 directly...

This Wednesday December 8th at EastBay.NET UG in Livermore I’ll be on a panel of Microsoft experts and MVPs that will be there to answer your architecture and development questions. We’ll also be hosting a really fun 30 minute FUNdamentals session with Remi Caron (MVP from the Netherlands) who will be...

Bay.NET user groups serve the entire Bay Area with .NET meetings in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, North Bay, and Tri-Valley areas. We’ve got a couple events coming up in December that I am excited to be a part of so check these out. First I’ll be speaking at the Microsoft SVC campus on December 1st...

I���ve been travelling for the last couple weeks around Europe to speak at a couple conferences and now that my sessions are all over I thought I’d post some stories and pictures of how things went. I have to say I really enjoyed my trip and it’s great to see familiar faces on attendees and speakers alike...

Thanks to those folks who came out to Silicon Valley Code Camp this weekend. Peter Kellner and crew put on another awesome event! I can’t believe we had over 2000 people there. Also thanks to Peter for using LightSwitch to quickly build some administration screens for the SVCC website . Here are some...

All the session schedules are now posted on the Silicon Valley Code Camp web site. SVCC is one of the biggest there is spanning many different technologies – you don’t want to miss this FREE event on October 9th – 10th at Foothill College in Los Altos . We’ve got over 1400 people registered so far with...

It’s that time of year again, Silicon Valley Code Camp is one of the biggest there is spanning many different technologies and grabbing the attention of over 1000 attendees. There are currently 165 beginner to advanced sessions submitted. This year I’ll be speaking on OData with Office &...

Come over to Foothill college on Saturday May 15th for a full day, two track education day with an all-star Microsoft cast. I’ll be there speaking on OData, Office and SharePoint development in Visual Studio 2010. We’ve also got some folks from the languages team coming to show off what’s new in VB,...

This week I have a couple interviews that released to the web. The first one is a short video with Eric Hagan from the DZone .NET community where I talk about some of my favorite features in Visual Studio 2010 and the languages: Beth Massi on Visual Studio 2010; New Features in VB, C# The second interview...

Tonight I’m going to give a preview of my Visual Studio 2010 launch demo on the new SharePoint development tools in Visual Studio 2010 including some Office client tools. This is basically the talk I did at TechDays in Belgium but much more focused on the Visual Studio developer who is just starting...