Hi, I’m Leslie Koorhan, and I’m doing the .NET blog. This is very exciting for me
as we are transitioning (as I’m sure many of you are) into the latest development products
from Microsoft, Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5. So I have a
bunch of things to talk about, with all that new technology, but also some great
things that I like about Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Frameworks 2.0/3.0
But, let me talk a little about myself as an introduction: I have been in the computer
business for too many years to admit, started with PCs back in 1982, using dBase
II on a CPM platform machine. I developed and taught FoxPro and Visual FoxPro for
8 years, spanning at least 6 versions in that time span. I have been working with,
and teaching, Microsoft SQL Server for the past 13 years, spanning now 5 versions
of that product. I learned VB6 and then have been involved with .NET since it was
in beta, back in 2001. I “converse” in both Visual Basic and Visual C# with no particular
preference. (There’s something to like about both.) And I have been a Microsoft
Certified Trainer for over 12 years. In the future, I will be talking about the
new certification paths for Visual Studio 2008, some of the new .NET technologies,
some of the old ones as well.
If you have anything to say, feel free, and let me know any questions you might
have about developer products. For certification information now, try
http://blogs.msdn.com/gerryo. And as always, for learning, use my favorite
site: www.microsoft.com/learning
One Step Back, Two Steps Forward
Tags:
AJAX,
LINQ,
Silverlight,
Visual Studio 2008
The people at Microsoft Learning who do do courseware, took a page from the recent past, and revived a wonderful ASP.NET class from the .NET launch 6 years ago, 2310. This course has been upgraded not only with the latest features of the .NET Framework 3.5, but also with .NET Framework 2.0 features. This will be our first course using Visual Studio 2008 (VS2008). Now that might be disconcerting if you are still coding using .NET Framework 2.0 , but for the first time, a version of Visual Studio can handle older Framework projects. So you can actually use VS2008 to code 2.0, 3.0, or 3.5 projects. This course will touch on some of the newer technologies, such as LINQ, AJAX, and Silverlight. 2310 is being offered at Centriq in Leawood next week. Check our class listings for future classes.