The Future of Visual Basic (East Bay.NET User Group) July 12, 2007

More than any other .NET language, Visual Basic is evolving in dramatic ways to provide its legions of developers with untold levels of productivity for developing enterprise data-aware applications. The next version of VB evolves from the influences of dynamic languages such as Ruby and from the field of existing VB6 developers struggling to migrate their applications to .NET.

During this session we will walk through the new language improvements coming with Visual Basic 9 and Visual Studio "Orcas" and Visual Basic 10, including Silverlight and the Dynamic Language Runtime.

Registration is required to attend this event. Please visit the event's homepage to register.

Presenter's Bio
Beth Massi is a Program Manager on the VS Community Team working with the Visual Basic Team producing developer content on MSDN and her blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi). As a VB community champion and a member of the Microsoft community she helps run a .NET user group in the San Francisco Bay Area and is a frequent speaker at various software development events.

Before Microsoft she was a Senior Systems Architect at a health care software product company and was a Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP. Over the last decade she has worked on distributed applications and frameworks using Visual Basic.NET, ASP.NET, SQL-Server, and Visual FoxPro. She has worked on various projects including developing object-oriented middle-tier frameworks, COM, .NET, Web and Windows-based applications using Microsoft development tools for a variety of businesses.
http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi

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