My Next Adventure
After 8 years in Visual Studio engineering helping .NET developers build awesome software and learn from each other, I’ve decided to take a new role at Microsoft as Product Marketing Manager for .NET. I feel like this will be a huge challenge for me as a long time developer but a great opportunity to grow my career. Yes, I’m going to marketing. But I’ll still be working on my most loved platform that has really defined my career, .NET.
I love .NET so why not jump at the opportunity to get the world even more excited about it from a different perspective? As a community champion for .NET developers, this new role is more of an evolution of all the things I’ve been doing all along. Instead of me running around the world speaking, or writing, or doing videos, I’m going to enable others to be great. I’m going to scale. I’m going to be behind the scenes instead of the spotlight.
Thank you to all the amazing .NET developers out there who have loyally read this blog over the years. From language tips, to data and services, to Office development, to desktop to mobile to cloud. .NET has been there though it all. Now we’re on the verge of something really amazing. Something I never thought would happen. .NET on other OS platforms besides Windows. So many more developers! And development in the open has really transformed our engineering team into “community developers”. They aren’t just engineers but also social engineers. I’m so proud.
It’s time to try something new but still be close to developers and the platform I fell in love with 15 years ago. I honestly have no idea what I’m doing yet! I have a lot to learn for sure. But luckily I’m joining a fantastic developer marketing team that really knows their stuff.
Wish me luck!
Comments
Anonymous
January 18, 2016
Congrats, you did an excellent job and i sure this time won't be different. Fears to changes it's what make us sense, that we're alive.Anonymous
January 18, 2016
@David Thanks!Anonymous
January 18, 2016
Good luck - wishing you well :)Anonymous
January 18, 2016
That's great Beth! Now you can bring the developer point of view into marketing and slap the stupid out of them when necessary :)Anonymous
January 18, 2016
Thanks Michael!Anonymous
January 18, 2016
@Brian. LOL. That's the idea. And they'll hopefully slap the marketing stupid out of me ;-)Anonymous
January 18, 2016
Wow! That sounds perfect for you Beth! You will be great in that role. I hope that will give us even more occasions to meet at conferences around the world!! Take care :)Anonymous
January 18, 2016
Thank you, Laurent!Anonymous
January 18, 2016
Awesome Sauce! As an undergraduate student not in a Computer Science major, I've enjoyed reading your blog posts about .NET.Anonymous
January 18, 2016
So, where can one get recent Lightswitch news and blog entries?Anonymous
January 18, 2016
@clarkis117 Thanks! That means a lot.Anonymous
January 18, 2016
@Tom, if there is any, it will be on the team blog.Anonymous
January 18, 2016
Congratulations, Beth! Always enjoyed working with you!Anonymous
January 18, 2016
@Matt Thanks! Likewise. :-)Anonymous
January 18, 2016
Great to hear the good news. You are definitely great for .NET and marketing definitely suits you well. All the best to you, Beth!Anonymous
January 18, 2016
@Mike-EEE Thanks for the vote of confidence :-)Anonymous
January 18, 2016
Lightswitch team blog last entry is 2 years ago and lightswitch help blog is 1 blog entry per month. Is there any chance an update on the state of lightswitch can be posted in a blog? Is Lightswitch a product with 3 years of forward development (July 2011 - 2014) followed by 5 years of minimal critical bug fixes? Lightswitch has promise of cross platform for windows, ios and android. Will VS tools for Cordoba get the same 3 years of forward development followed by 5 years of minimal critical bug fixes?Anonymous
January 18, 2016
Congrats, good luck and have fun! I'm sure you'll do great, Beth. Looking forward to hearing more from you in your new capacity!Anonymous
January 18, 2016
Congrats Beth - I'm sure that you will be amazing at itAnonymous
January 18, 2016
Congrats Beth!Anonymous
January 18, 2016
Congratulations! Have fun. ;-)Anonymous
January 18, 2016
Congrats!!Anonymous
January 18, 2016
CONGRATULATIONS! A well deserved promotion for you. Beth, you are awesome, thanks so much for all the assistance you have provided the vb.net and lightswitch communities.Anonymous
January 19, 2016
That's great! Good luck with everything, although I know you don't need luck. Hope to see you again if you're ever back in Toronto.Anonymous
January 19, 2016
Good luck, Beth! Keep rocking! :)Anonymous
January 19, 2016
Dear Beth, I wish you all the best. It's such a great challenge to combine development and business. That's the future for me! To have people in the business to understand all basics! I'm in the meantime in business. And hours what? I'm seeing up systems to convince people! Great that you have this change! Enjoy and with my best wishes HaraldAnonymous
January 19, 2016
Congratulations - so glad to hear that the .Net team isn't loosing you - yeah, it's marketing but you'll be marketing to geeks so it's not really marketing, more like chatting at Ignite or Build. Best of luck in your new position and look forward to seeing much awesomeness from you in the future!Anonymous
January 19, 2016
Best of Luck, This new challenge insuring your progress :)Anonymous
January 22, 2016
There's never been a better time to be a .NET developer, and having you in this new role will greatly help the ecosystem. Congratulations!Anonymous
January 22, 2016
Beth, a BIG thank you from all Visual Studio users! Really appreciate everything you've done to make the baddest IDE around.Good luck on the new role. I know you'll do awesome things.Anonymous
January 23, 2016
Relly good news. Congratulations, All the best to you, Beth! I subscribe to your blog and appreciate your story made me grow and evolve. ThanksAnonymous
January 30, 2016
First of all Thanks! And Good Luck!Anonymous
March 16, 2016
Hi Beth, I am new to Visual Basic.NET and would like to learn. Where can I find your tutorials, specifically databases and one-to-many tables? I searched through your blogs but I can't find it. There is something very simple (well in MS Access It is simple) that I need to do but I just can't figure it out and it is driving me up the walls! Many thanks!Anonymous
April 13, 2016
Good luck in this new life and wish you the best. Sure you'll do great