Yesterday Jay Roxe and Sean Drain did some great presentations for the .NET User Group Austria. Vienna was the first stop of the User Group tour that has been organized by INETA Europe. The picture of the T-Shirt shows the cities of this tour.
Jay Roxe started with a presentation about current Visual Basic .NET tools, "Things you didn't know you could do with VB". Jay demonstrated using the new Visual Basic Power Pack that includes full-licensed third-party components. How easy it is to do Ink programming for the TabletPC was the second part of the presentation that was followed by a demonstration how to use Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System. A wish that comes up fairly often (at the UG meeting as well) is support for older Office versions.
After a break the presentation from Sean Drain was about "An introduction to Visual Basic 2005". Among other features Sean showed click-once deployment, My, Toolstrip features, the new Data View control which supports custom column types, Data Visualizers for debugging......
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Here are the complete tour dates.
In Germany the session will be webcast live to connect all User Groups in Germany!
Christian
On Monday the VB.NET Team is giving presentations for the .NET User Group Austria! After TechEd in Amsterdam the VB.NET Team makes a tour around Europe.
Here is the time, location, and registration information: www.microsoft.com/austria/events/ugvbnet
The presentations from Sean Drain and Jay Roxe:
Things you didn't know you could do with VB:
This hour-long presentation will take you through new tools and development areas for using your existing Visual Basic .NET 2003 skills. Topics covered will include the new Visual Basic Power Pack, development for the Tablet PC and building Office applications with the Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System.
An Introduction to Visual Basic 2005:
Come see the new features coming in Visual Basic 2005. We'll take a look at new features such as My, new deployment technology with ClickOnce, new debugging tools including the return of Edit and Continue, and much more. This is a chance to see the technology while it's still in production from the team thats building it.
Sean Drain
Sean Draine is a Program Manager on the Visual Basic team at Microsoft currently working on project and deployment. Other projects he's worked on include Visual Basic.NET data tools, the Visual Studio.NET shell, and Visual Interdev 6.0. Prior to joining Microsoft, Sean earned a PhD in Cognitive Psychology and founded Millisecond Software, a psychological research tools software vendor. When not working, Sean enjoys surfing, snowboarding, music, and hanging out with his daughter.
Jay Roxe
Jay Roxe is the Product Manager for Visual Basic at Microsoft. In this role, Jay is responsible for product planning, technical evangelism and external communication. Prior to this role, Jay was a developer and development lead on the .NET Framework where he had responsibility for the Base Class Libraries. Jay holds a BSE in Computer Science from Princeton University and an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business.
More European dates of the VB.NET Team tour.
Christian
