VSLive San Francisco coming up!

Continuing a long association with VSLive (been doing this since 1999), I'll be again speaking at VSLive in San Francisco, March 30 through April 3. It's a busy few days, for me--I'm co-presenting a workshop (Gentle Introduction to Windows Workflow Foundation) along with Robert Green, and then four sessions as well:

* What's New in Visual Studio 2008 for ASP.NET Developers?
* Build a WPF Application in an Hour
* Investigating LINQ to XML
* Programming the Office 2007 Open XML File Formats

The folks running VSLive have created a special promotion code, SPGET, that you can use when registering to receive $695 off the standard Gold Passport price (that is, rather than paying the standard $2795 for the Gold Passport admission, using this access code, you can get the Gold Passport admission for $2100). Please join me at VSLive San Francisco, learn a ton about Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio Team System, and much more! I hope you'll browse to http://www.vslive.com/sf and sign up now, and please stop by a session and say hello if you do!

General Conference Information:

VSLive! San Francisco – Moscone Center West, San Francisco March 30 – April 3, 2008

Register online (http://www.vslive.com/sf) or call 800-280-6218 using Priority Code SPGET and receive the Gold Passport for just $2,100.

2008 marks the 15th Anniversary of VSLive!, and we’re kicking the year off with our biggest conference of the year – VSLive! San Francisco. Meet industry gurus; network with other professional developers, Microsoft product teams and executives at San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center West on March 30 – April 3, 2008.  VSLive! San Francisco offers 160 hours of hard-hitting technical content over five action-packed days. VSLive! San Francisco will provide a depth of resources and perspectives to help you be productive now and prepare for the near future. Learn cutting-edge techniques for today and tomorrow in sessions on VSTS, ALM, Silverlight, AJAX, .NET Framework 3.0 & 3.5, SharePoint 2007, Windows WF, Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008, and much more. Our speakers have years of experience mastering the tools you need to get your job done. www.vslive.com/sf   

Published Friday, February 22, 2008 9:42 AM by KenG

Comments

Saturday, March 15, 2008 10:39 AM by Don Spencer

# re: VSLive San Francisco coming up!

Ken, as someone who references you as "a guru" for VBA and has almost all of your Access and VBA books, I find myself ambivalent about VSTO and when to begin the switch from VBA. Just today (15-Mar-2008), I wrote an op-ed piece about just this issue - bringingclosure.blogspot.com/.../vba-and-vsto.html.

I don't expect you to stop work on VSTO anytime soon, but I am curious as to how you would advise those happy in the VBA world to invest limited time and resources, especially when I read about so much dissatisfaction with Microsoft's OpenXML initiative.