First Day at DevTeach
I'm up in Vancouver at DevTeach and I have to say that so far it's been a great conference! I did a demo of my Visual Studio Tip of the Day browser and built an add-in (like I showed here) for part of the keynote with Ken Levy of the VSX team. This morning I open up VS and low and behold, Sara's next tip mentions my add-in and the conference! Weird, I'm reading about my add-in in my add-in :-).
The TOTD browser is a great example of using LINQ to XML in Visual Basic so I encourage you to download it and have a look at how easy this was to do with LINQ. Also, Sara will be meeting me up here this evening for a panel discussion with Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin on Open Source. Thanks Sara! I owe you some good Canadian beer after the panel ;-).
Yesterday I also did a session on migration strategies for VB6 apps to .NET. I talked about a decision framework and then showed a ton of code that demonstrated interop between VB6 and VB.NET using the Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0. I also showed a couple ways to approach debugging as well as showed how to deal with application config settings.
I was surprised by how many people came to the talk and how well received it was. There's a lot of great VB developers here in Canada. If you're scratching your head about how to approach a migration project, please check out the Toolkit and these posts for more information.
Later today I'm doing a session on What's New in Visual Basic 9 and it should be LOADS of fun. I have a few surprises planned :-).
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About Beth Massi
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.
