Event Information

July meeting – A Lap Around Visual Basic 10, C# 4 and Visual Studio 2010
When:	Wednesday, 7/8/2009 at 6:45 PM
Where:	University of Phoenix Learning Center in Livermore, 2481 Constitution Drive, Room 105
Event Description
Microsoft has decided to Co-evolve their premiere .NET languages, Visual Basic and C#. In this session you will gain insight into language team's strategy and direction for implementing new features. You'll also learn about the new capabilities of the next version of the languages, including additional productivity features, syntax simplifications, and a host of other improvements. We'll also show off some of the many new features in Visual Studio 10 that will make you much more productive when building solutions. FUNdamentals Series in 2009 Peter Tweed AJAX for ASP.NET: the different options In this FUNdamentals Peter will take us through the different options for implementing AJAX functionality in an ASP.NET web application and the pros and cons of each.
Agenda
6:00 - 6:30 .NET FUNdamentals 6:30 - 6:45 check-in and registration 6:45 - 7:00 tech talk; announcements and open discussion 7:00 - 9:00 presentation and give aways
Presenter's Bio
Beth Massi blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi 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 MSDN Developer Centers (http://msdn.com), and helping make Visual Studio one of the best developer tools in the world. She also produces regular content on her blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi), Channel 9, 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 East Bay .NET 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.
Driving Directions
(please note the new location!) University of Phoenix Learning Center Room 105 2481 Constitution Drive Livermore, CA (Off 580 at Airway Blvd. and just East of Costco) map → get directions