MSDN VB.NET Day, Dublin and Belfast If you're in Dublin or Belfast, don't forget that the VB.NET Product Team are paying a visit on April 10th and 11th as part of their EMEA tour. 

Of course, the MSDN day will about much more than just the VB.NET language! 

The morning will feature sessions on What's new in Visual Basic 2005, and Top Tips and Tricks from the VB Team, which will be ideal both for VB6 developers who are interested in looking at what's new in the latest incarnation of Visual Basic.NET, and also for current VB.NET developers looking to see what's new in 2005.

The day then moves into an Introduction to ASP.NET using VB 2005, and then deeper dives into Developing secure ASP.NET Applications (with Dominick Baier, a security expert from DevelopMentor), and the Windows Presentation Foundation (Avalon) for VB Developers.

I'm on tap for that WPF presentation, and I'm also going to see what I can do about providing a VB.NET-based intro to Atlas, the new libraries for ASP.NET that facilitate rapid development of client-side scripting.

As you probably know, your language choice between VB.NET or C# doesn't make a profound difference when discussing security, WPF or Atlas.  What's a few semicolons and squigglies between friends, right?  So the day is definitely applicable to the C# crowd.  I mean you all know by now that my native tongue isn't VB.NET, but I'll do my best :) 

Very much looking forward to the days, and hope to see you there.

Click here to register for the Belfast Event (April 10th)
Click here to register for the Dublin Event (April 11th)