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Visual Basic 10, C# 4 & Visual Studio 2010 Talk @ EastBay.NET
10 July 09 10:00 AM

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 Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, Speaking, Community, DevCenter, VS2010

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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Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, Speaking, LINQ, VS2008, Community, DevCenter, XML, VS2010

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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Filed under: Visual Basic, Speaking, LINQ, VS2008, Community, Videos, DevCenter, XML, VSTO

I'm Speaking at VSLive! San Francisco Next Week!
18 February 09 07:40 PM

I'll be speaking in my own home town of San Francisco next week for VSLive ! so if you're in the area you should register and come on out! There's an amazing line up of speakers and sessions . Also when you register you get free access to the MSDN Developer Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, Speaking, Community, DevCenter

I'll Be Freezing... uh... Speaking at DevTeach Montreal in December
17 November 08 03:06 PM

I'll be speaking at DevTeach in Montreal December 1st - 5th this year.... brrrrr!!!! I guess I need a winter coat! Seriously though, this Canadian .NET/SQL conference is always jam-packed with high caliber speakers, take a look . I'll be speaking on Visual Read More...

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

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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Filed under: Visual Basic, Speaking, LINQ, VS2008, Community, DevCenter, Office

I Landed at PDC in Los Angeles
29 October 08 10:33 AM

What a busy week! Every time I sat down to write this blog post, someone would sit down and want to chat with me about architecture, languages or data. PDC is so big and there's so much to talk about with people and there are so many experts here. I've Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, Speaking, Community, DevCenter

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

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 Sources and Data Binding in WPF Talk in Redmond
24 September 08 09:35 AM

On Monday night I spoke at my first .NET users group here on the Microsoft Campus. It was the Visual Basic .NET Developers Association meeting that's here in Building 40/41 Steptoe room behind the cafeteria. It's held every last Monday of the month so Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, Speaking, Community, DevCenter, Data

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What's New in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 - Client and Data Features
11 September 08 12:51 PM

Last night I spoke at East Bay.NET UG on some of the new features in Visual Studio Service Pack 1 focusing on client and data. I did a whirlwind tour of new SQL 2008 data types and Sync Services enhancements , ADO.NET Entity Framework , ADO.NET Data Services Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 6 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, Speaking, VS2008, Community, SQL Server, ClickOnce, DevCenter, Office, Data, Entity Framework

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

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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Filed under: Visual Basic, Speaking, LINQ, Community, VB6, Interop Toolkit, DevCenter

DevTeach - Last Day
16 May 08 08:19 AM

Thursday: Okay I know it's Friday but I was the last session of the day yesterday and I didn't have time to post afterwards (I'll tell you why in a minute). My duet session with Rob Windsor was on VB6 to .NET Migration. We're going to take this one to Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, Speaking, Community, Interop Toolkit, DevCenter

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