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Silicon Valley Code Camp Oct. 3-4 : Schedule is up!
28 September 09 12:37 PM

As I mentioned before , I’ll be speaking this weekend at Silicon Valley Code Camp ( http://siliconvalley-codecamp.com/ ). This is a FREE event at at Foothill College and it’s not just Microsoft technologies. A lot of great speakers will be there too. Read More...

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Good Times at DevTeach, Vancouver
19 June 09 05:24 PM

Last week I spoke at DevTeach in Vancouver which was held at the beautiful Four Seasons in downtown. I love this Canadian conference because the attendees are great – super friendly and social, and ask a lot of great questions. I mostly interacted with Read More...

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dnrTV: More Fun with Office and XML Literals
20 April 09 12:33 PM

Yesterday Carl posted another dnrTV show with yours truly. This is a follow up from the last show where I went over the Open XML SDK and LINQ to XML in order to manipulate and query Office documents. Last show focused on CustomXML parts and Word content Read More...

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I'm Speaking at Silicon Valley Code Camp on Saturday Nov. 8th
05 November 08 12:33 PM

There are over 1100 people registered for the Silicon Valley code camp this year! Wow! That's a couple hundred more than last year. This is a free event people, so there's no excuse not to come out to Foothill college this year. And it's not all Microsoft Read More...

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SDN Conference Day 2
08 October 08 03:04 AM

Today I woke up at the crack of dawn because I had an 8:30 AM session. Okay maybe not quite the crack, but for me it was early . Especially after a night of socializing. That's a really cool thing about conferences here, the attendees love to go out with Read More...

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First Day at SDN Conference
07 October 08 03:28 AM

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 Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, Speaking, LINQ, Community, DevCenter, XML, Office, Entity Framework

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Data on the Smart Client Talk at Bay.NET UG
21 August 08 01:48 PM

Last night I spoke to SF Bay.NET user's group on Data Binding in Winforms and WPF, focusing on Line-of-Business (LOB) application scenarios. I showed how you can use the same data sources with Winforms and WPF, walking through binding scenarios with DataSets, Read More...

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TechEd Panel: VB XML Literals for C# Developers
03 July 08 10:00 AM

This week TechEd Online posted the TechEd panel I was on with Erick Thompson and Shyam Pather of the SQL Data team. I thought it was a pretty funny panel description they came up with, ala Dr. Strangelove : VB XML Literals for C# developers or: How I Read More...

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I Survived TechEd
09 June 08 04:20 PM

I feel like I need a T-shirt that says "I survived TechEd". It was my first time at TechEd and no one can really prepare you for how much work and play takes place at a huge conference like that. I had a BLAST. Our VB6 to .NET migration talks went well Read More...

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DevTeach Day 2 - LINQ to Everything
15 May 08 09:17 AM

Before I post about DevTeach Day 3 I thought I'd report back how the LINQ session I did yesterday evening. I mentioned yesterday that I volunteered to fill in for Roy Osherove because he ended up in the hospital. Good news is that he emailed this morning Read More...

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I Made it to Toronto! Day 0 and 1 at DevTeach
13 May 08 09:32 AM

Monday: I wake up at 3:15am CA time and get to SFO to make a 6am flight to Toronto. (Note: Air Canada flights do NOT leave from the international terminal, they leave from domestic terminal 3, go figure.) But the flight was pretty nice, TVs on the back Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, Speaking, LINQ, Community, DevCenter

Video Presentation: Conquering XML with LINQ in Visual Basic 9
30 April 08 05:44 PM

The session I did last November at QCon in San Fransisco is online so check it out . In this talk I introduced VB 9's LINQ to XML syntax and XML literals, axis properties, and embedded expressions. It's so weird watching myself but I think it was a pretty Read More...

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Webcast Tomorrow - Redux - LINQ to XML in Visual Basic
03 April 08 12:55 PM

If you missed my March 21st webcast on LINQ to XML in VB then you get another chance to join me live tomorrow at 9AM Pacific. These webcasts have been loads of fun for me. Although I prefer speaking in front of live people (I like to see your faces) I Read More...

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Webcast Tomorrow! - Working with XML in Visual Basic
20 March 08 07:00 PM

I'll be delivering a webcast tomorrow morning on LINQ to XML in VB. I'll show lots of cool demos I promice! Live From Red Bethmond: VB9 - Working with XML in Visual Basic 3/21/2008 9:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) | Duration:60 Minutes XML permeates Read More...

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Webcast Added to the VBeth Webcast Series
10 March 08 08:34 AM

Thanks to all who attended Friday's webcast. Unfortunately VOIP in the new version of Live Meeting isn't what it's cracked up to be. And even though I set up a conference call, a lot of people couldn't dial into the toll-free number from other countries. Read More...

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