Bonus Sessions / User group night

Note: This presentations is free for DevTeach attendees and member of Vancouver UG.

Future Directions for Microsoft Visual Basic and C#

• Presents Microsoft’s new managed languages strategy
• Demonstrates Language features in VB and C#
• Also shows off some VS2010 code editor features

Speakers Bio

Beth Massi, Microsoft Corporation     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 , and helping make Visual Studio one of the best developer tools in the world. She also produces regular content on , , 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  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.

.NET Rocks Hosts the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 InstallFest at DevTeach!

Join Carl and Richard as they participate with the attendees at DevTeach installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. Members of the Visual Studio team will be talking to Carl and Richard through the process of installation and exploring the new features of Visual Studio 2010. Bring your laptops and your questions and participate in the InstallFest – you’ll be part of a .NET Rocks and dnrTV episode!

Attend the Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1 Install Fest and you could win a ASUS Eee PC!

Chance to Win a ASUS Eee PC 1000HE with Windows 7 RC and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1!

As part of the InstallFest, we will conduct a random draw for a preloaded with Windows 7 RC and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. This draw will only be available to attendees of the InstallFest so make sure to register and attend the InstallFest on June 10^th!

Legal Disclaimer

No purchase necessary.  To be eligible to win, a participant must be a resident of Canada (excluding Quebec) and of the age of majority in his or her province of residence. Any potential participant who is an employee of Microsoft Corporation or Microsoft Canada Co. (“Microsoft”), their affiliated companies, advertising agencies, prize suppliers or other representatives, or a member of the respective immediate families of such employees or anyone with whom such employees are domiciled is ineligible to participate in the contest. For more information refer to the contest Rules and Regulations

Carl Franklin, Franklin's Net      Carl Franklin has been a figurehead in the VB community since the very early days when he wrote for Visual Basic Programmers Journal. He authored the Q&A column of that magazine as well as many feature articles for VBPJ and other magazines. He has authored two books for John Wiley & Sons on sockets programming in VB, and in 1994 he helped create the very first web site for VB developers, Carl & Gary’s VB Home Page. He now teaches hands-on VB .NET classes for his company, Franklins.Net. He has taught developers from Citigroup, Aetna, Fidelity Investments, Fleet Bank, Foxwoods Casino, UTC, Hubbell, Microsoft, Mohegan Sun Casino, Northeast Utilities, to name a few. Carl is co-host of a weekly talk show on his website for .NET programmers called .NET Rocks! Carl is MSDN Regional Director for Connecticut.

Richard Campbell, Strangeloop Networks       Richard Campbell is one of the co-founders of Strangeloop Networks and today serves as product evangelist, introducing the company’s unique story to advisors, investors, patent attorneys, beta-customer candidates, potential employees, etc. Richard has more than 30 years of high-tech experience and is both a Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). He has consulted with a number of leading North American organizations; Barnes&Noble.com, Dow Chemical, Johnson & Johnson Health Care Services, Reuters, Subaru/Isuzu and the U.S. Air Force. Richard is co-host of the “.NET Rocks!, the Internet Audio Talk Show for .NET Developers” podcast, host of “RunAs Radio, the Internet Audio Talks for IT Professionals” podcast, has been co-authoring of the “Advisor Answers” column on SQL Server for more than ten years and author of the courseware for AppDev's national SQL Server 7.0 training seminars and video series.