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