Last Day at DevTeach

Published 30 November 07 09:50 AM

All good things come to an end. My last day at DevTeach I filled in for a speaker that got caught at the border at the last minute and presented a session focusing completely on LINQ to XML in Visual Basic 9. I went through a lot of examples and got really great reviews for the session. Most of the applications I showed you've already seen here, but there were a couple new ones that I'll post in the next coming days, including a clean, simple app that uses Virtual Earth to map out customers in the Northwind database.. in one LINQ to XML query of course. :-) I think overall people were very impressed with the technology and there was a lot of excitement about being able to use it now!

Of course, what would be the last day at DevTeach without pulling a prank on Beth Massi? Yes the Mad Mexican (as they call him) strikes again and this time it was me that was blessed with the words "I love you BETH" on a round, hairy belly of a crazy Canadian. Here's the video!

Thanks to Jean-Rene and all the rest of the DevTeach crew for another awesome conference. See you in Toronto in May!

Enjoy!

by Beth Massi
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# Free People Searches » Last Day at DevTeach said on November 30, 2007 2:03 PM:

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# rogerj said on November 30, 2007 4:53 PM:

The speaker "caught at the border" was a C# terrorist? A member of the NHibernate mafia?

--rj

# Beth Massi said on November 30, 2007 5:07 PM:

ROFL! I don't know the details but I was happy to fill in! :-)

# Anders from sweden said on November 30, 2007 5:15 PM:

Hi there

I´m looking forward to see the Virtual Earth code. I have tried to connect a database to Virtual Earth (and Mappoint) but without success.

# Beth Massi - Sharing the goodness that is VB said on January 3, 2008 6:29 PM:

I'll be speaking at the Victoria Code Camp on January 26th so if you're in the area and you have nothing

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About Beth Massi

Beth is an Online Content and Community Program Manager on the Visual Studio Community Team responsible for producing content for business application developers and driving community features onto MSDN Developer Centers (http://msdn.com/). She also produces content on her blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi), Channel 9 (http://channel9.msdn.com/), and a variety of other developer sites. As a Visual Basic community champion and a long-time member of the Microsoft 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 modifying cars.
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