During the past couple years, I’ve participated as an expert in several ask the expert sessions. Typically what happens is a bunch of as MVP’s and Regional Directors for different Microsoft technologies get together at a certain time and date (on a phone call) and work together to answer people’s questions on asp.net topics.
Feel free to drop by and ask us something! Here is the link.
I have to admit, I actually wanted to get on the bus. About 40 people came to see the majestic CodeTrip bus take off today (Thursday night) from the Venetian’s parking garage. As the Silicon Valley Code Camp guy, I have to say, I get it. These guys and gals (OK, mostly guys) are going on a 6 week trip spreading code. Tonight they are just going to Salt Lake City, but what a way to go. John Stame from the San Francisco Office points to where he plans to meet the bus. What a schedule!
Beth did a great job of presenting new features in Visual Studio 2008 at the Bay.Net Meeting in San Francisco. Her focus was Visual Basic. Most of the features she presented will work in both C# and VB. Lots of LINQ stuff. What really surprised me was the superior handling of LINQ to XML in VB9. I always thought C# (my language of choice) was better in all ways than VB but I was sadly surprised. I may have to learn VB now.
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