First Day at SDN Conference
I'm here in the Netherlands in a town called Noordwijkerhout near Amsterdam at the SDN Conference with a lot of great speakers and sessions.
I took these shots while the attendees were in session. There's good food, great vendors and lots of entertainment -- XBoxes, bowling, pin-pong, and lots of bars ;-) We also had a really funny English comedian perform at the end of the night. The Dutch really know how to put on a great event.
I have a total of three sessions and two on the first day. First I did a session called LINQ to Everything where I walked through each of the LINQ providers in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 "box" including LINQ to SQL, LINQ to DataSet, LINQ to Entities and LINQ to XML. We discussed application architecture and considerations and I showed demos to introduce each of the technologies. The room was packed and I got great scores so I'd say it went well. :-)
Next session I did was a lot of fun. It was called Taking Advantage of LINQ and Open XML in Office 2007 and I showed how to manipulate Open XML document formats in Office 2007 Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents using the Open XML SDK version 2.0 and LINQ to XML. I think it sparked a lot of people's curiosity and creativity because there are a lot of possibilities. I showed how you can create, query and transform documents without having to have Office installed at all. I also had great reviews and chatted with many attendees afterwards who were building a lot of cool business applications.
I attached the presentation and demos so have a look.
Enjoy!
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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.
