Visual Basic 10, C# 4 & Visual Studio 2010 Talk @ EastBay.NET
On Wednesday I spoke at EastBay.NET User’s group at our new Livermore location and I have to say it was a TON of fun. I don’t think I’ve had this much fun speaking in a while. Deborah has an awesome recap of the event. We were afraid that we’d have low attendance because of the switch in venue but it was a great turnout!
I did the same talk that I had done at DevTeach which I wrote about here. I guess the third time’s a charm because I had people laughing and learning at the same time which is what I always strive for in my talks. I had great feedback that I explained Co/ContraVariance really well. I’ll write up a blog post on that later but I basically just took this example from Lucian and explained it in “OOP 101” terms driving it home with a practical example in the end.
I also showed all of the C# 4 features in one method that demonstrated COM interop with Office lifted from this walkthrough and demonstrated the “no PIAs” feature (which removes the PITA experience of deployment ;-)) by cracking open reflector and showing the type information embedded into my assembly. Take a look at the end of this walkthrough for info on that feature.
I also showed off some of the cool features of VS2010 like the new look-and-feel, the new editor, and WPF designer and data tooling. I needed 3 hours to cover everything I wanted to show so I ran out of time in the end but that always happens to me :-).
Check out the EastBay.NET site for our upcoming events. Hope to see you there next month.
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.
