Bagikan melalui

First Day at SDN Conference

  • Artikel

I'm here in the Netherlands in a town called Noordwijkerhout near Amsterdam at the SDN Conference with a lot of great speakers and sessions.

IMG_0933 IMG_0934 IMG_0935

I took these shots while the attendees were in session. There's good food, great vendors and lots of entertainment -- XBoxes, bowling, pin-pong, and lots of bars ;-) We also had a really funny English comedian perform at the end of the night. The Dutch really know how to put on a great event.

I have a total of three sessions and two on the first day. First I did a session called LINQ to Everything where I walked through each of the LINQ providers in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 "box" including LINQ to SQL, LINQ to DataSet, LINQ to Entities and LINQ to XML. We discussed application architecture and considerations and I showed demos to introduce each of the technologies. The room was packed and I got great scores so I'd say it went well. :-)

Next session I did was a lot of fun. It was called Taking Advantage of LINQ and Open XML in Office 2007and I showed how to manipulate Open XML document formats in Office 2007 Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents using the Open XML SDK version 2.0 and LINQ to XML. I think it sparked a lot of people's curiosity and creativity because there are a lot of possibilities. I showed how you can create, query and transform documents without having to have Office installed at all. I also had great reviews and chatted with many attendees afterwards who were building a lot of cool business applications.

I attached the presentation and demos so have a look.

Enjoy!

SDCDay1.zip

Comments

  • Anonymous
    October 06, 2008
    PingBack from http://www.easycoded.com/first-day-at-sdn-conference/

  • Anonymous
    October 06, 2008
    very nice.. such great conference. what i like most on conferences are the fun things too. it gives more interest to attendees. ill be looking forward to SDN conferences soon.

  • Anonymous
    October 07, 2008
    Beth, I was at both your LINQ sessions at the conference and it was great fun listening to you, even the early session after a long night at the bar downstairs :-) Thanks and I hope to see you again next year! With kind regards, Taco.

  • Anonymous
    October 07, 2008
    Hi Taco! It was a great time.. I love Europe! So friendly! Glad you enjoyed the sessions, I hope you can find uses of the technologies in your applications. Cheers, -B