I'm Speaking at BAADD in San Francisco
Tomorrow night (Wednesday), I'll be speaking at the BAADD UG meeting at the Microsoft (Landmark) building on One Market. The talk is on LINQ and Visual Basic.
Here's the details:
The next meeting of the BAADD San Francisco .NET Developer's User Group will be next Wednesday, March 28, 2007 from 6:30-9:00 p.m. at the Microsoft Office, One Market Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA.
Food will arrive at 6:30, and the meeting will get underway formally at 7:00. If you arrive after 7:00, you will need to have the security guard call me to bring you up.
Our topic this month is: LINQ's The Word , presented by Beth Massi.
LINQ stands for Language Integrated Query and is the next big language enhancement in VB 9.0 and C# 3.0 that will change the way you write applications. LINQ makes working with data much easier by providing a unified, strongly typed, easy to use syntax for working with XML, relational and object data. Come see tons of examples and the latest Visual Basic compiler which is part of the next version of Visual Studio code named "Orcas".
Please RSVP to dbr@outformations.com by noon on Wednesday, March 28th, so we can make sure we have enough food and drinks on hand, and so building security knows you are coming.
As always, we will have a drawing for door prizes for which you must be present to win, and meetings are free for current BAADD members, and $10 at the door for nonmembers. Annual dues are $75, and you can join at the door.
Beth is a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Community Team at Microsoft and is responsible for producing and managing content for business application developers, driving community features and team participation onto MSDN Developer Centers (http://msdn.com), and helping make Visual Studio one of the best developer tools in the world. She also produces regular content on her blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi), Channel 9, and a variety of other developer sites and magazines. As a community champion and a long-time member of the Microsoft developer community she also helps with the San Francisco East Bay .NET user group and is a frequent speaker at various software development events. Before Microsoft, she was a Senior Architect at a health care software product company and a Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP. Over the last decade she has worked on distributed applications and frameworks, web and Windows-based applications using Microsoft development tools in a variety of businesses. She loves teaching, hiking, mountain biking, and driving really fast.
