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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...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

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...

Postedby Beth Massi | 3 Comments    

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

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...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

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

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

Webcast Tomorrow! - Introduction to LINQ in Visual Basic
06 March 08 05:45 PM

I'll be delivering a webcast tomorrow morning on an intro to LINQ in VB. If you're lost or just want to get started with it, join me and come see what it's all about. Live From Red Bethmond: VB9 - Introduction to LINQ in Visual Basic 3/7/2008 9:00 AM Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 11 Comments    

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

Visual Studio 2008 Launch Event
27 February 08 08:27 AM

Even though Visual Studio 2008 has been available since mid-November, today is the official Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008, and SQL Server 2008 launch event down in Los Angeles. If you aren't at the event in L.A. you can tune into the virtual Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 9 Comments    

Filed under: Speaking, VS2008, Community, DevCenter

Live From Bethmond Webcasts (The VBeth Webcast Series)
12 February 08 10:38 AM

I'll be doing a series of webcasts next month that you should check out if you're trying to get started with the new features in Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2008. (BTW, if you haven't downloaded Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Basic 2008 Express what are Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 12 Comments    

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

The Future of Visual Basic Talk
17 May 07 02:24 PM

I just finished my last session here at DevTeach called "The Future of Visual Basic" and it was another packed room. I have to say I really enjoyed giving this talk because the audience was awesome. I just love the Visual Basic community. When you get Read More...

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

The Future of Visual Basic
14 May 07 10:36 AM

I'm here at DevTeach in beautiful Montreal ! And man, what great weather they are having so far. I'm in a t-shirt overlooking the Cathedrale Marie-Reine-Du-Monde and Dorchester Square. I just arrived last night and the pre-conference sessions are already Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, Speaking, LINQ, VS2008, Community, Silverlight

Orcas Overview
14 April 07 12:53 PM

On Thursday night I gave a brief overview of the next version of Visual Studio code named "Orcas" using the March CTP to the East Bay.NET FUNdamentals session. I went through building a simple n-tier application from scratch using the new and improved Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, Speaking, VS2008