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 Massi is a Program Manager on the VS Community Team working with the Visual Basic Team producing developer content on MSDN and her blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi). As a VB community champion and a member of the Microsoft community she helps run a .NET user group in the San Francisco Bay Area and is a frequent speaker at various software development events. Before Microsoft she was a Senior Systems Architect at a health care software product company and was a Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP. Over the last
decade she has worked on distributed applications and frameworks using Visual Basic.NET, ASP.NET, SQL-Server, and Visual FoxPro. She has worked on various projects including developing object-oriented middle-tier frameworks, COM, .NET, Web and Windows-based applications using Microsoft development tools for a variety of businesses. She loves teaching, mountain biking, and modifying cars.
