Vermont.NET Meeting

The next Vermont.NET meeting will be THURSDAY, May 11th.

 

Note also that we are moving to our summer location!

 

Location: Champlain College, Miller Information Center,

83 Summit Street

, Room 308  

Time: 6 - 8:30 pm

  

Speaker: Alan Griver, Group Manager, Visual Studio Data Group, Microsoft

Topic: Standardizing access to data with LINQ

This session will give a glimpse of an upcoming version of Visual Studio and .NET as it applies to Language INtegrated Query (LINQ). We'll cover how LINQ can be used to query objects, databases and XML and talk about how the project was started and has progressed and where it might be heading.

Speaker Bio: Yair Alan Griver is the Group Manager for the Visual Studio Data group. As Group Manager, Alan’s teams produce the tools used inside of Visual Studio .NET, Office and SQL Server that surface data capabilities, as well as Visual FoxPro. Alan is focusing on making Microsoft’s products the best data environments for developers. Prior to this position, Alan was a Lead Program Manager and Community Evangelist for Visual Basic .NET, driving community interests into VB.NET. Before joining Microsoft, Alan was CIO at GoAmerica, a publicly traded telecomm (wireless internet) company, and co-founder and CIO of Flash Creative Management a business strategy and technology consulting company. Alan is the author of five books on Visual FoxPro and VB, the creator of various development frameworks, and has developed database systems ranging into the thousands of users. He has spoken around the world on databases, object orientation and development team management issues, as well as XML and messaging-based applications.